Word: experimention
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Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein is a man obsessed with the discovery of knowledge at any price, committed to the exploration of charlatanry, if necessary, to learn all the secrets of the natural world. He is above all completely self-absorbed, unable to see beyond the experiment at hand. His monster...
When Cambridge began rent control, it was a groundbreaking experiment in urban planning. Now that we've seen the results, it's time to end the science project.
Most of the country's 2.3 million VA patients are poor or mentally ill. And over the decades, many have signed up for experiments after doctors suggested that it was the only way they could receive meaningful help. Now, however, those methods of obtaining recruits for psychiatric experiments are undergoing...
Ten different UCLA-VA experiments, all of which are federally funded and housed in the West Los Angeles center, are under investigation. In one, "Management Risk for Relapse in Schizophrenia," veterans were placed on lower than usual dosages of antipsychotic drugs. All lived away from hospital supervision and were said...
The OPRR is also investigating an experiment at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is affiliated with the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The study gave patients L-dopa, an amino acid that stimulates dopamine -- the brain's mood-regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe...