Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disciplines has begun to converge. The mood was electric when 400 scientists gathered last month at the University of Chicago for the Bristol-Myers Symposium on Cancer Research. Researchers reeled off findings that the journals have not been able to keep up with. Said Conference Chairman Janet Rowley, a geneticist at the University of Chicago: "Ten years ago, few of us had any notion the progress would be so rapid, even explosive...
...Richard Finkelstein, a noted geneticist at the University of Missouri, recently argued in a letter to Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson that the experiment should be cancelled, one of a handful of protests by leading genetics experts of the planned experiment...
...same could not be said of Russia. "Rasputin took the empire by stopping the bleeding of the Tsarevich," the British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane observed. Alas, the empire was hemorrhaging too, and the hypnotic Siberian peasant only exacerbated that wound...
...acre. If destroying newly planted crops seemed to violate every American tradition-and it did-Wallace was even more furiously criticized for deciding to slaughter 6 million baby pigs rather than let them grow to full size. The son of Calvin Coolidge's Agriculture Secretary, an eminent plant geneticist and an idealist with presidential aspirations, Wallace was as appalled as anyone by the butchery. It reflected not the ideals of "any sane society," he complained, but an emergency caused by "the almost insane lack of world statesmanship" in stabilizing food prices...
...Survey attacked creation science at its weakest point: the contention that the earth is some 10,000 years old. It is more like 4.5 billion years, said Dalrymple, who scorned the creation contingent as flat-earthers. Francisco Ayala of the University of California at Davis, an ex-priest turned geneticist, ran a brief seminar on amino acids to show that man and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, but conceded that God could be behind the whole process...