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...Most professors still parrot information from outdated textbooks and, unsurprisingly, have no practical experience to share with students. "How can I trust my teachers if they've never dealt with a market economy?" asks an M.B.A. student at Peking University. "They have Ph.D.s in economic models that no longer exist...
...truths of biomedicine--such truths as: epidemic diseases are things of the past, at least in so-called developed nations; a widespread outbreak of infectious disease is impossible unless the microbe is casually transmitted; the kind of virus found in animals known as the retrovirus doesn't exist in man; and no virus causes cancer in humans. By the end of the 1980s, these four truisms had hit the dustbin. Or take a more recent example: the newfound plasticity of the human brain. Until a year and half ago, it was a dogma taught in every medical school...
Theorists have even identified a candidate for a consistent unified theory of gravitation and all the other forces: superstring theory. In some versions, it proposes that what appear to us as particles are really stringlike loops that exist in a space-time with 10 dimensions. But we don't yet understand all the principles of this theory, and even if we did, we would not know how to use the theory to make predictions that we can test in the laboratory...
...School spokesperson Michael Chmura says that the press created a controversy where one did not exist...
...result, he said, the "faith factor should not exist in a presidential campaign...