Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point that Rorvik goes wrong, and he should therefore be criticized for helping to conduct this secret cloning of a human. The scientific method demands public disclosure, guaranteeing that experiments can be repeated and results duplicated. Rorvik realizes that he is "undermining the traditional scientific ethics" but overlooks the fact. But he cannot get away with this for he is subverting the very essence of science...
Experimenting in secrecy has been becoming an all-too-common problem as professional jealousies and competition for limited research funds compete with the hallowed scientific method. Take, for example, news reports last month that universities can now patent certain experimental techniques, and what this will do to the principle of reproducibility of results...
...seemed not to realize. Many turn-of-the-century sociologists attributed a myriad of social phenomena to genetics, such as male dominance to cranium size. Many of these theories have been discarded as a result of an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting nurture over nature, but at least the method of investigation used by these now discredited sociologists was sound--that is, the scientists pondering the influence of biological determinism on human beings were indeed those scientists who actually studied human beings and societies...
...Toronto. In 1921 Best and the late Sir Frederick Banting began working on Banting's theory that the then fatal disease diabetes could be treated with a hormone from an animal pancreas. Holed up eight weeks in their lab, the two isolated insulin. Best later devised a method of drying and storing blood serum and pioneered development of the drugs histamine, heparin and choline...
...oenology students, wine is not the "blushful Hippocrene" extolled by Keats but a complicated blend of ethyl alcohol, polyphenols and a hundred other compounds that must be subjected to decidedly unromantic analysis. At the moment, the department is trying to aid the time-honored sniff, sip and taste method of judging wines with a computer system that would analyze and rate mathematically the blend of compounds in wine...