Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, there was speculation in the Western press that famed Nuclear Scientist Pyotr Kapitsa had played a crucial role in the bomb's development. But Kapitsa, according to Khrushchev, refused to get involved in military research. Here is Khrushchev's version of their relationship...
...past, though always with him, is a private matter. So for that matter are all his opinions on the subject. He is not anxious to cultivate sympathy or win converts to anti-Zionism. His goal is quite simple: to be allowed to continue his work as a scientist, to be allowed to continue to survive...
...overly competitive spirit now pervading science. Caught between the enthusiasm of his superiors and a federal-grant system that tends to award funds for results rather than research, Summerlin has been under enormous pressure to reproduce the results of his first experiments. There is no excuse for any scientist to fake his findings in order to gain more time to prove his theory. But any researcher who has ever submitted a grant application or sweated out a decision as to whether or not his work will be allowed to continue can understand why a colleague might be tempted...
...choose whether he shall drink or not, and who, if he drinks, is unable consistently to choose whether he shall stop or not." Yet the more researchers study alcoholism, the more complex they realize it is. There are, in fact, almost as many "alcoholisms" as there are alcoholics. Behavioral Scientist Don Cahalan of the University of California at Berkeley objects to even attempting a strict definition. Drinking, he says, is a continuum, and no one can draw an exact line between an alcoholic and a severely troubled drinker. "The issue," he states, "is why some people apparently waste their lives...
Aversion therapy has been widely criticized. Says one social scientist: "I think doctors who emphasize aversion conditioning are misguided. They claim that they are curing alcoholics by giving them a shot in the behind, which makes them sick. But how long does that really last?" A program that draws even more fire is one in which doctors study alcoholism by offering drinks to alcoholics. Indeed, Dr. Edward Gottheil, who oversees such a research project at the Coatesville Veterans Administration Hospital in Pennsylvania, admits that his work is "extremely controversial." Still, he argues, traditional centers either study alcoholics without their alcohol...