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...Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived." Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually...
There he audited a chemistry course taught by John Edsall, an expert in proteins. Edsall soon took Anderson under his wing, as author Larry Thompson recounts in Correcting the Code, a forthcoming book about the pioneers of gene therapy. At one of Edsall's seminars, Anderson became intrigued by a visiting British scientist's talk about the hemoglobin molecule, which transports oxygen in the bloodstream. A thought occurred to Anderson, and he blurted it out. "If you could determine its structure," he reasoned out loud, "then you could do the same with sickle hemoglobin and determine what the defect...
Knowing he needed help, he began collaborating with retrovirus researcher Eli Gilboa and Dr. Michael Blaese, an NIH pediatrician and expert in immunology. Over the next few years, Anderson submitted proposals for human gene-therapy trials to the NIH's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), which must approve such tests...
Indeed, the health risks of being pregnant at 50 are greater than those at 30, but careful monitoring minimizes those risks. Older mothers using donated eggs give birth to babies that do just as well as those born to younger women, according to Dr. Mark Sauer, a fertility expert at the University of Southern California...
Wilson, an expert on radiation dangers, called yesterday for Harvard to investigate its own records to determine the extent of involvement by Harvard scientists in experiments like the ones at Fernald...