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...reigning theory among sex researchers is that homosexuality, like heterosexuality, is "learned behavior"?the product of subtle interaction between a child and the significant people around him. Only birds and lower mammals are rigidly programmed to mate with the opposite sex. The higher one goes on the mammalian scale, the more the organism is under the sway of learning rather than inherited factors. But that does not really explain anything either. Scientists do not yet know how an individual creates a heterosexual or homosexual value system...
...Verrett's book is outspoken. But it speaks nonsense. While Dr. Verrett acknowledges in her book that chick-embryo studies "should be considered in conjunction with tests on mammals," she fails to note that mammalian studies refute the teratogenic effects (birth defects) suggested by her work. The FDA and the National Academy of Sciences accept the more important mammalian studies as conclusive...
...Technology, is noted both for discoveries made in his lab and policies articulated outside of it. His co-discovery in 1970 of the enzyme reverse transcriptase helped scientists in their search for a cancer-causing virus and led him to synthesize for the first time a portion of a mammalian gene, thus bringing closer the prospect of genetic engineering and control over life. Fearful about what that might mean, the M.l.T.-educated Baltimore is now spearheading efforts to protect the public from "bio-hazards." "Science-fiction fantasies may come true very soon, and we should be prepared," he warns...
Despite these results, the researchers remained skeptical of their own evidence. "We thought it was just a feline leukemia virus," explained McAllister. But further experiments showed that the virus was chemically different from all previously identified mammalian viruses. Gardner still feels a "small nagging doubt-the remote possibility that it's a strange new type of cat virus." To rule out this possibility, the researchers plan an additional series of laboratory experiments, including attempts to produce viral antiserum from guinea pigs and rabbits. The antiserum could then be used in human cancer tissue to test for the presence...
...secret of the man has always been his wit. His sense of humor overcomes the grotesque spectacle of being stranded in Los Angeles, that sub-Fellinian mammalian circus. His wit has also prevented the vegetative decay which afflicts so many old artists. The man who has known and worked with almost every major artist in this country, has lived in Los Angeles with Huxley, Isherwood, Mann, and Schocnberg, and seen all but Isherwood pass away, is essentially a happy spirit...