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Word: demigodhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...erection of nuclear power plants declared to be safe and sound, open disputes about the real values of scientifically approved medicines, and the increasing willingness of patients to sue physicians to make them account for mistakes in treatment. Sci-Tech, in a sense, has been demoted from its demigodhood. The public today rallies, in its untidy way, around the notion that Hans J. Morgenthau put into words in Science: Servant or Master?. "The scientist's monopoly of the answers to the questions of the future is a myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Science: No Longer a Sacred Cow | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

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