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...when Pusey became president in June of 1953, he inherited the cases of Wendell H. Furry, Leon J. Kamin and Helen Deane Markham. In February Furry, then an associate professor of Physics, had been called before Congressman Harold H. Velde's House Un-American Affairs Committee and had refused to answer any questions. Kamin, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy, had also invoked the Fifth Amendment in March before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. The Harvard Corporation was faced with a dilemma: what should be done with these professors...
...month before Pusey assumed office, the Corporation decided the three professors would stay, but Kamin and Markham had been found guilty of "misconduct," because invoking the Fifth did not befit scholars who were, in the Corporation's opinion, devoted the the "pursuit of truth" and free inquiry. Furry, however, who had testified in a second hearing that he had ceased being a communist in 1951 and had admitted to Harvard officials that in 1944 he had lied to FBI officials about a colleague's political affiliations, was found guilty of "grave misconduct"--grounds for dismissal...
...flurry of sociobiological literature which followed the publication of Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning book has since died down, it seems, and the pendulum might just be swinging the other way Richard Lewontin's new book. Not in Our Genes--which he co-authored with Steven Rose and Leon Kamin--presents the other side of the debate over genetic determinism...
...ardent opponents of anti-egalitarian trends in science. Lewtontin, a professor of Biology at Harvard and a prominent evolutionary geneticist, has been particularly outspoken in his anti-sociobiology crusade. Rose, neurobiology professor at the Open University in England, has written on the social implications of biological and psychological research. Kamin, a professor of psychology at Princeton University, uncovered one of the most fraudulent scientific studies ever conducted: Sir Cyril Burt's experiments on intelligence...
Perhaps there is more of a middle ground than Lewontin, Rose, and Kamin realize. The dialectical interaction between organisms and their environment proposed by the authors might be more similar to Wilson's concepts of heritability than the authors would like to acknowledge...