Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against all this, some German scientists have finally risen. In Der Biologe, Geneticist F. Schwanitz pointed out that the anti-evolutionary outbursts have been quite unsupported by scientific references. He seethed at the "shameless attack upon the supporters of evolutionary theory, i.e., the overwhelming majority of biologists." Another scientist, Chr. von Krogh, writes: "Some have tried to identify a scientific doctrine with the National-Socialist philosophy. Nothing could be more wrong. A detailed scientific theory can never be identified or paralleled with a philosophy...
Carried to death's door by the bite of a Montana tick, a laboratory worker was saved last week by a new serum. With one notable exception, this researcher was the first scientist among several score experimenting on Rocky Mountain spotted fever to recover from an attack. The other: the man who invented the serum-young Dr. Norman Hawkins Topping of the U.S. Public Health Service. His attack of fever three years ago was so '"terrible" that after his miraculous recovery he worked day & night till he produced the new serum...
...Francisco, the District Court of Appeals upheld an award of $8,000 to the widow of a Christian Scientist who died of injuries after an automobile accident. The defense claimed that, because he dismissed his doctor, the victim died of negligence. The Court's decision: an injured person may choose any kind of care he wants...
...very convincing if a little too neat. Every war has to have its ideological devils. In World War I, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were elected. This time, it seems, a first-rate scientist and a first-rate musician are to be blamed equally with a class-conscious revolutionist...
...most important basic medical discovery of the present generation"; - so one scientist called it. He referred to the theory that mice may get cancer from a virus in their mothers' milk.* This was reported in Science last week by Geneticist John Joseph Bittner, of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., where scientists have worked on this problem for more than seven years...