Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further funding until the academy leadership appointed a more congenial group. Lacking significant outside support, the academy depends on such money for its studies. But Government agencies-or industry-have rarely had to wield a financial club since the committees themselves are frequently staffed by uncritical scientists. Examples: key parts of a report on lead poisoning were drafted by a chemical company scientist; a subcommittee on dog-and cat-food standards was chaired by a pet food company executive; an aerospace company vice president headed the academy's aeronautics and space board. Such panels occasionally did include "public interest...
...speeches droned endlessly on, the white-haired scientist turned in despair to a fellow dinner guest and sighed: "I have just got a new theory of eternity." Albert Einstein's ennui at a function of the National Academy of Sciences was hardly unusual. Though the prestigious organization likes to consider itself the supreme court of American science, it has all too often resembled other self-perpetuating honor societies, like baseball's Hall of Fame or Hollywood's Oscar judges...
...soon as possible in the form and manner that best suits the inhabitants." While Franco must regret losing the valuable phosphate deposits, he has undoubtedly learned from the Portuguese experience just how costly an attempt to hang on to a colony can be. Moreover, as a Madrid University political scientist notes: "What this government does not need is a new international problem...
...Saudis refuse to admit any scientist who has worked in Israel or professed "Zionist" views, and reserve the right to deny visas to Jews...
Being visible does not help the scientists' research careers. Other scientists see them, Goodell says, "as a pollution in the scientific community," as publicity grabbers who depart from normal scientific channels to communicate their views. These critics complain that their better publicized colleagues may mislead the public because they often speak outside their area of expertise. Biologist George Wald, a Nobel Laureate and vociferous antiwar spokesman, disagrees. "If the scientist is good," he says, "his field is reality, and that covers an awful lot of ground. I think that the scientist can be that rare, disinterested person who calls...