Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trounson's method, called immature oocyte collection, is radically different from traditional IVF. Instead of priming the woman with fertility drugs so that eggs (the oocytes) will mature, doctors simply remove immature eggs. The timing is no longer crucial. Success hinges on two new techniques: locating the immature eggs and stimulating them to mature outside the ovary...
American fertility experts doubt that Trounson's method will save as much money as he claims. What's more, they question whether the treatment will be useful for the majority of infertile women. "I don't think we have data to prove that this will give the woman a better chance of success," says Dr. Suheil Muasherof the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia. Trounson admits that he cannot predict the procedure's success rate, but in cattle, 30% of the embryos from immature eggs become calves. That's slightly better than the current 25% success rate...
...melanin theory, most notoriously advocated by Leonard Jeffries, has no grounding in accepted fact and can defend itself only by claiming that the effects of melanin "cannot be measured with Eurocentric methods." What might those "Eurocentric methods" be? Science? That's probably one such method we might want to hold...
...information on-demand" functionality of interactive media will also allow for a more informed populace. Granted, technology as it is today requires the user to be somewhat well-informed anyway, but as interfaces grow and society habituates to new media, the method--and the impulse--of Joe User to extract information from the Infobahn will become intuitive...
...scientists' method of calculating the universe's age is based on the assumption that it has been expanding ever since the Big Bang. If the age estimate is wildly wrong, then there could be a flaw -- possibly a fatal flaw -- in the Big Bang theory...