Word: scientist
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...observed last week, after the Senate had joined the House in ending further federal subsidy for the SST, that the congressional action "could be taken as a reversal of America's tradition of staying in the vanguard of scientific and technological advance." Says Paul Seabury, a Berkeley political scientist: "It is the first time in American history that a major technological innovation has been shot down...
There is, however, the question of what comes first. Maybe pornography circulates freely because public standards have already changed; maybe people read about sadism because they are already sadistic. Political Scientist Wilson Carey McWilliams argues this point well: "Degeneracy becomes socially visible, emerging from underground, only when it has reason to expect a welcome. Certainly this is the case in relation to sexuality. Our verbal sexual morals had become nothing more than cant some time ago. Worse, they were a form of hypocrisy which discouraged respect...
...social importance"? Even if something is of value only to masochists, asks Justice Douglas, how can it be said to be utterly without social importance? Others argue, in effect, that no law is perfect; society must do the best it can. "The Sherman antitrust law forbids monopolies," says Political Scientist Reo Christenson. "What is a monopoly? What is an unfair trade practice? When is guilt proved beyond a reasonable doubt? Those indignant over the lack of specificity in obscenity laws are quite complacent about vagueness in laws they approve...
...case, the black hole itself could never be observed. The only thing a dedicated scientist might do, muses Caltech Physicist Kip Thorne, long a black-hole theorist, would be to ride down the surface of a collapsing star and into a black hole. "Of course, he could never get back out, or communicate his results to the outside. But who is to deny a man the right to his own personal pursuit of knowledge...
...March 26, a crowd of several hundred people in Sanders Theater shouted down members and guests of the University and prevented them from communicating their views. This incident followed closely upon an earlier one in which threats led to the cancellation of a scheduled lecture by a well-known scientist. These are the first occasions in our memory on which visitors invited to speak to Harvard audiences have been prevented from doing so. On the contrary, Harvard has repeatedly offered a forum to speakers representing a wide variety of unpopular and dissenting viewpoints...