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...will find the chapters on viruses and cancer especially informative. It's not necessary to be a hard-core biochemist to read Watson, and a look at these chapters will make technical papers and even newspaper stories about cancer experiments a lot more comprehensible. In the chapter entitled "A Geneticist's View of Cancer," Watson first discusses the specific changes cancerous cells undergo on infection, and then details the molecular mechanisms proposed for the transformation of cells by tumor viruses. If left at that, this chapter would be a valuable compilation of the present data on cancer induction, but Watson...
Solzhenitsyn's protest was prompted by the case of Dr. Zhores Medvedev, a prominent Soviet geneticist who last month was locked up in a mental institution. Nine months ago Medvedev lost his job as head of a radiological institute in Obninsk. Reason: the publication in the West of a book, in which he charged that Stalin's pet scientist, Trofim Lysenko, had thwarted the advancement of Soviet biological research. Medvedev attacked Lysenko for distorting facts for political reasons, and for imposing "demagoguery and intimidation" on Soviet science, leading to "scientific bankruptcy." In line with Communist ideology, Lysenko taught...
These provocative opinions appear in The Evolution of Man and Society (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London), the latest book by Cyril Dean Darlington, 65, a British geneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society and Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford. None of these academic credentials describe Darlington's true vocation. He is an intellectual maverick, dedicated to setting the scientific Establishment on its ear. His new book is the culmination of the author's long assault on the complacent conviction, still defended by many social scientists, that man represents a kind of dead end on the evolutionary trail...
...mind. The third is crisis intervention: a radical and still experimental attempt to try emotional first aid on someone who seems headed straight for a mental institution. Says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Southern California's medical school: "The geneticist figures you're done for when you're born. The psychoanalyst figures you're done for when you're six. But the crisis intervener says you're not done for until you're dead...
...about their contribution to the intelligence of mankind at large, much less to any division of mankind. The suspicion that there are genetically determined differences at birth, and that these may contribute to the enormous diversity of the human intellect, is at least as old as Plato. But, as Geneticist Lederberg observes, "it remains just a hypothesis, and we are not much better equipped than Plato was to assess...