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...ozone layer? Or in the controversy surrounding food additives and cancer? Too often those who must ultimately decide these issues are likely to be swayed by rhetoric rather than by scientific fact because there is no easy way to sort out the facts in arguments between scientists. Physicist Arthur Kantrowitz, 62, thinks that he has a solution to the dilemma. Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory in Everett, Mass., and one of the key engineers in the U.S. space program, would like to use the techniques of the courtroom to establish scientific fact. His idea: a court that would...
...process for science is not a new one. Congress, regulatory agencies and scientific organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences have long made it a practice to take testimony from both sides in any scientific public policy dispute. But Kantrowitz's court would do more than hold hearings. It would conduct a trial to determine facts...
...Kantrowitz sees it, when two sides disagreed on a scientific public policy question, the opponents would be asked to appear before a specially constituted panel composed of distinguished scientists from fields other than the one under dispute. Advocates, who would also be publicly supported when necessary, would present their arguments to the panel and would actually cross-examine each other. The panelists would then examine the arguments and publish their judgment on the facts...
...main artery leading from the heart. They then sewed the booster directly into the aorta, led the air hose out through the chest and connected it to the exterior tank. The procedure took five hours, but it was not until 5 a.m. that Shanks left the operating room; Kantrowitz kept him there until he was certain that the booster was doing...
Shanks' heart was relieved of at least half the work of supplying blood to his body. Only hours after the operation, he was doing well. But Kantrowitz believes that no heart operation is a success until the patient returns home. Shanks is not yet ready for that...