Word: meselson
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Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award for determining the origins of "yellow rain," a mysterious toxin that Laotian anti-communist rebels said caused serious illness in many villages...
...Meselson said he became suspicious of the government's claims two months later when he read a State Department report stating that yellow rain contained traces of pollen...
...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...
...talking about whether scientists tell the truth. We are talking about whether those scientists contacted by journalists tell the truth," Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, said in response to the charges by the journalists...
...true that most scientific research is never explicitly verified, Meselson said. However, he said, science is a self-correcting process because it builds upon itself...