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...scientific programs of the West? From foolishly dismissing Russian science before the Sputnik many have come to overpraise it. Among the dozens of American, British and German scientists who have visited Russia in recent years, a sounder assessment is now emerging. "The Western scientific picture," concludes West German Biologist Arnold Buchholz, "shows a much more finely woven net of research themes, with a great number of high points, and a higher level of quality. Soviet science is marked by massive points of heavy concentration and a great difference in the level of quality...
Lysenko, a second-rate biologist, was enthroned because his theory that environment could produce any desired result fitted in neatly with the Communist theology. Physicist Lev Landau was tossed into jail; Physicist Abram Joffe barely escaped being shot; and Geneticist N. A. Vavilov died in a slave labor camp, while his younger brother, the president of the academy, dutifully signed the documents destroying his brother's life work...
Human law has historically been based on philosophy, on theology, or on the imperatives of community life. French Biologist Jean Rostand founds his concept of the law on the biology of the human being. He argues* that modern science is rapidly changing human biology and that the laws affecting it must change...
Until a Chair can be founded, there is a wealth of talent possible as guest lecturers in Naturalistic Humanism. If foreign sources are drawn upon, there are in England such men as Dr. Julian Huxley, biologist, formerly Director General of UNESCO, and Lord Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and first Director General of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization; and in Canada Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, formerly Director General of the U.N. World Health Organization. In this country, in addition to Dr. Corliss Lamont '24, of the philosophical faculty of Columbia Univ., to whom I referred previously, there...
...Victims of radiation exposure should walk to the nearest shelter-never run -says Biologist Thomas J. Haley of the University of California. He exposed rats to an eventually fatal dose of radiation, found that one group, with light exercise, tired and died rapidly, while another group that stayed quiet took far longer to perish. If humans find themselves under some cover during an atomic blast, he feels that they should stay put. "You may experience radiation sickness, but you may at least live to recover...