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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident. "I am convinced," he announced, "that one bottle became contaminated after it left Kingston." Then investigators of the U. S. Food & Drug Administration, who, fearing another sulfanilamide catastrophe (see above), had ganged up on Dr. Neal, announced that the deadly bottle had come from the Bio-chemical Research Foundation in Philadelphia, an institution financed by Chemical Industrialist Irénée du Pont and headed by Biochemist Ellice McDonald...
...over John B. Watson's theories of behaviorism, now largely forgotten. Another uproar sprang from the importation from Germany of "dynamic patterns of behavior" (Gestalt psychology). An endless dispute goes on over the value and significance of I. Q. tests. At present a major trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin rolled into one-invented...
...Rhine at Duke has come under the influence of venerable, opinionated Psychologist William McDougall, who once belonged to a "dubious" society for psychic research. Dr. McDougall and Dr. Rhine are among the few scientists who still believe in Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics...
...incapable of dealing with the large-scale cosmos. Relativity can treat individual particles only as "singularities" (i.e., anomalies) in the space-time field-a far feebler picture than that provided by Quantum Theory. Many years ago Einstein said he would devote the rest of his life to the research for a Unified Field Theory which would comprehend all natural phenomena. He knows that such a fantastically ambitious goal will never be reached by a straight frontal attack. He has been probing around it, looking for avenues of approach, circuitously groping toward unity. Nearly a decade ago he actually announced...
Loaned for study and unwrapping by the Peruvian government, the mummy was one of a number collected by Julio C. Tello, Honorary Curator of Andean Archaeology. Alfred Kidder, instructor in Anthropology, is supervising research on the 1500-year old specimen...