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Alfred Day Hershey, Sc.D., Nobel-prizewinning geneticist...
...protest is that professionals in the West took so long to acknowledge the documented evidence of malpractice in the Soviet Union. The first extensive revelations were made in 1963 by Author Valery Tarsis, whose book Ward Seven described his internment in a Moscow psychiatric hospital. More recently, Geneticist Zhores Medvedev and his twin brother. Historian Roy Medvedev, published A Question of Madness (TIME, Sept. 27), which tells of their struggle to win Zhores' release from a mental hospital after he published an attack on the theories of Stalin's favorite scientist, Geneticist T.D. Lysenko...
...devoted 22 pages to a "Blueprint for Survival" that also projects disaster and argues for quick action to end exponential growth. The article gains its authority not from computer studies but from the endorsement of 33 of the U.K.'s most distinguished scientists, including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley, Geneticist C.H. Waddington and Naturalist Peter Scott. Unrestricted industrial and population expansion, they warn, must lead to "the breakdown of society and of the life support systems on this planet-possibly by the end of this century and certainly within the lifetime of our children...
...being a geneticist, I will not pass on the question whether ability is inherited or not. Speaking as a layman, it would seem to me reasonable to assume that inheritance is one factor; but speaking as a social scientist with some experience with quantitative work, the evidence mentioned in the article seems to me to be extremely skimpy. Nor do I find evidence of a critical review of the quantitative procedures underlying the alleged findings by the author sufficient to lead me to accept his judgment that the case is indeed proven beyond doubt...
Your letter to the Crimson said: "Not being a geneticist. I will not pass on the question whether ability is inherited or not. Speaking as a layman, it would seem to me reasonable to assume that inheritance is one factor; but speaking as a social scientist with some experience with quantitative work, the evidence mentioned in the article seems to me to be extremely skimpy. Nor do I find evidence of a critical review of the quantitative procedures underlying the alleged findings by the author sufficient to lead me to accept his judgement that the case is indeed proven beyond...