Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most controversial topics covered in the course is "DNA typing," a method to identify a person on the basis of genetic information...
...typing] is so good a method for gettingscientific evidence that we shouldn't fudge thestatistics," he says...
...National Research Council (NRC), in a bookcalled DNA Technology in Forensic Science,proposed a "ceiling method" to get around theproblems with the process. According to NRCguidelines, any sample which matches the generalpopulation's gene pool more than 10 percent shouldnot be considered a conclusive match...
...Exit. At least 15 of the victims had consulted the book, and six of those had no physical problems at the time. Psychiatrist Peter Marzuk, who led the study, speculates that some of the suicides might have called for help or otherwise survived if they had used a slower method, such as a tranquilizer overdose. Only 30,000 of 300,000 annual suicide attempts are successful, but Marzuk fears that this ratio could go up if the plastic-bag technique continues to spread. Advocates for the right to euthanasia point out that the overall suicide rate has not risen. They...
...That possibility is raised in a study by New York City's Cornell Medical Center, to be published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper notes a dramatic rise in the number of people who asphyxiate themselves by tying plastic bags over their heads, a method recommended in Final Exit for "self-deliverance" within three to four minutes. In 1991, the year the book came out, there were 437 plastic-bag suicides across the U.S., up 30% from...