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...Geneticist E. B. Lewis, also of Caltech, proves in Science that leukemia (a cancer-like blood disease) is indeed caused by radiation. He uses statistics covering Japanese atom-bomb victims and three types of Americans exposed to large amounts of X rays. Strontium 90, he believes, will have the same effect. He figures that if its concentration in U.S. bones ever rises to one-tenth of what the AEC considers the "maximum permissible concentration," leukemia in the U.S. will increase...
...scientists who disagree most sharply with Commissioner Libby are the geneticists. At the University of California, Geneticist Curt Stern, onetime member of the ABC's biological advisory commit tee, says of his colleagues: "Every one of them thinks that damage is being done." Dr. Stern thinks that Libby should stick to his own field (physics and chemis try). About the statements by physicists that bomb tests are safe, Dr. Stern says: "These statements are not based on scientific principle." Starting with Dr. Libby's own statement that fallout has increased back ground radiation by only...
...Geneticist Kemp is careful to distinguish Denmark's "genetic hygiene," which he insists is a "purely medical subject," from Nazi ideas of selective breeding: "It rests definitely on the principle of voluntariness. Genetic-hygiene measures are taken exclusively at the desire of the persons concerned. Experience shows that patients, after having been informed on the significance of the hereditary taint, nearly always follow their doctor's advice." He does not explain how a mentally defective patient can understand the medical and social considerations involved, or how "voluntariness" can be achieved...
Currently, Perkins spends $250,000 a year in the hunt for new roses (and $1,800,000 on ads and other promotion), employs a top geneticist, Eugene S. Boerner, as his chief hybridizer. Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing. From some 250,000 plants nursed along to the bloom stage, less than half a dozen new ones are selected each year to go into J. & P.'s catalogue. A single rose may cost $50,000 to develop, but royalties on a single rose have hit $500,000, so, says...
...process of breeding and feeding beef for profit has bred a lot of romance out of the cattle business. The closer the industry gets to its golden calf, the further it gets from its rootin', tootin' golden past. The cattleman has become a statistician, geneticist, chemist, endoctrinologist, pharmacologist, and market specialist...