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Until Harvard Professor of Geology Steven Jay Gould launched an attack in the November 28 issue of The New Yorker. Gould, a leading evolutionary biologist, hit the mark when he denounced The Bell Curve as a "manifesto of conservative ideology." The book is not an academic treatise in social theory and population genetics, he argues, and furthermore "the book's inadequate and biased treatment of data displays its primary purpose--advocacy...
...Molecular Sciences. "I had to go to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow to get myself coated in a layer of gold." There is a frontier spirit in these fast-growing intellectual boom-towns that attracts job seekers with a taste for adventure. Calcutta-born Uttam Surana, an ambitious young biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, turned down an offer from Germany's venerable Max Planck Institute to go to Singapore. "When you work with big people, you get overshadowed by their thinking," says Surana. "Here you can think your own thoughts...
...Most patients die of metastases-related disease," said Patricia Steeg, a molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda...
...Playboy subscribers, for example, who brag about their sex lives in reader-survey cards. Even the famous Kinsey studies - which caused such a scandal in the late 1940s and early '50s by reporting that half of American men had extramarital affairs - were deeply flawed. Although Alfred Kinsey was a biologist by training (his expertise was the gall wasp), he compromised science and took his human subjects where he could find them: in boardinghouses, college fraternities, prisons and mental wards. For 14 years he collared hitchhikers who passed through town and quizzed them mercilessly. It was hardly a random cross section...
Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology at Harvard, and a renowned authority on evolution, has called Mayr "the greatest living evolutionary biologist...