Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monthly Cycles. The probability of a causal relationship between estrogen and uterine cancer was strengthened last week by two reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. The first, a statistical study prepared by a team led by Dr. Noel Weiss of the University of Washington in Seattle, stated that between 1969 and 1973 the incidence of cancer of the uterus had generally increased from about 20% to 60%, depending on the geographical area surveyed, among middle-aged women. The magnitude of that increase, concluded the study, "has rarely been paralleled in the history of cancer reporting in this country...
...first major effort in the sports psychology field came when he did research on racial differences in professional sports performances. This resulted in a widely-heralded article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology...
...think that if I, an editorial writer at the Wall Street Journal, had been as careless as your writer, I would have caught hell...
...Wall Street Journal...
...California Sociologist Harry Edwards, a former college track star, finds that "the violence in sport is magnified by television. The fan can identify with violence in terms of what he would like to do with the forces he cannot control." And in a recent paper in the medical journal Pediatrics, three physicians reported an "Evel Knievel syndrome" -imitation of exhibitionism in sport. "Televised violence," explains the paper, "especially during sporting events and news reporting, is increasingly implicated in imitative and aggressive behavior exhibited by children...