Word: gellhorn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...security wraps with which the government has been muffling the nation's science laboratories are endangering both our scientific advantage in the cold war and the civil and academic rights of scientists and prospective scientists. That is the position of Walter Gellhorn, a professor of Law at Columbia, who has surveyed the civil rights situation in science for the Cornell Studies in Civil Liberties...
Though Professor Gellhorn ranges far aileld in his discussion of science, he has managed to bring together many aspects of government security and loyalty programs into a cohesive account of the losing battle for civil rights which is going on in the nation's laboratories...
...such of the fields that Gellhorn covers, he finds a progressive deterioration of academic freedom and scientific inquiry. More scientific discoveries are being classified as secret. Curbs on free discussion among scientists of different countries, or even of different laboratories, have been reinforced. Criteria for the granting of scholarships and fellowships by the government become more forbidding every year. And the grounds on which scientists are denied employment in any department of the government have expanded to include the remotest connections with heterodox political movements...