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...Skinner. Margaret Mead. Linus Pauling. Isaac Asimov. Paul Ehrlich. James Watson. What do these people have in common? All are scientists, and their names are more or less household words. They are also included in a group of some 40 scientists* studied by Dr. Rae Goodell, a postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T., for her doctoral thesis at Stanford University's department of communication. She picked them because they have an ability that is rare in the scientific community: to communicate effectively with the public and make headlines...
...Underlying much of the argument is the question of whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect. Most experts feel there are no reliable studies on which to base an answer. Now criminal-justice circles are abuzz with word that in a soon to be published study, Economist Isaac Ehrlich of the University of Chicago claims to have proved the existence of a deterrent effect by a statistical analysis of figures from 1933 to 1969. (The last execution...
...reporter in her is comparing statistics with an executive, the next she's talking to a human victim and the numbers don't matter anymore. Statistics--as the bureaucrats so aptly demonstrate in this book--can prove anything. And besides, we have statistics: Heilbroner on the food shortage, Ehrlich on population, Commoner on ecology. With so many books to read, with figures dwarfing anything Scott's talking about (anything imaginable), it's chaos to lose the bond of shared experience for too long. When the New York Times can ignore an industrial explosion that killed 29 workers...
Screenplay by MAX EHRLICH and FRANK DE FELITTA...
...smaller wonder that the pros tend to develop quirks that decorate their egos like gargoyles on a tower. Richard Bergmann, the late English titlist, once searched in vain for the perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing you must do is quit school...