Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SCIENTIST TO SPEAK...
Coles' accomplishments are perhaps best summarized by Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman: "There is one important theme he has contributed: antistereotype. Policemen are not pigs, white Southerners are not rednecks, and blacks are not all suffering in exotic misery. What he is saying is 'People are more complicated, more varied, more interesting, have more resiliency and more survivability than you might think. I listen to them! You listen to them! Please listen! Again and again...
...psychiatric hospital. More recently, Geneticist Zhores Medvedev and his twin brother. Historian Roy Medvedev, published A Question of Madness (TIME, Sept. 27), which tells of their struggle to win Zhores' release from a mental hospital after he published an attack on the theories of Stalin's favorite scientist, Geneticist T.D. Lysenko...
...rapidly heated, possibly by its radioactive elements, and underwent surface melting about 4.5 billion years ago. In contrast with delegates to previous "rock conferences," the experts assembled this year were unusually reticent about advancing new theories on the moon's evolution. Said Geochemist Paul Cast, chief lunar scientist at the Manned Spacecraft Center: "We have so much data to examine that the boys just aren't doing much speculating." Added NASA Geochemist Robin Brett: "The Apollo 15 material alone will keep us busy for about five years...
...this professor's stated opinion, a scientist's proper concern should be to do the best research he can; if someone else misuses the results of his work, that is not his business. After the class, the students filed out of the hall, glad that the lectures had ended and reading period was to begin, yet some felt rather uneasy about their position in the shelter of academic ivy. Would they be as dispassionate as their gentle professor if it were their land and food supply that was being ruined by an intruder's technology? And what of these chemicals...