Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responsive to human aspirations" - the State Department publicly criticized two Communist countries for their treatment of dissident citizens. First, Czechoslovakia was taken to task for harassing dissidents. The next day, in response to a question by a newsman, State issued a statement rapping Moscow for mistreatment of disaffected Nuclear Scientist Andrei Sakharov. It was the kind of criticism of internal Communist affairs generally avoided by Henry Kissinger...
...been calamitous. Just how to increase natural-gas supplies remained in dispute (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), but the time for national dawdling on a comprehensive energy policy has clearly run out. "Jimmy Carter's first confrontation as President will not be with the Russians," said a senior Washington weather scientist."It is with the weather...
...Gilbert Levin, principal Viking investigator in the microbe experiment, the evidence from the lander experiments strongly suggests biology: "Certainly whatever they have shown cannot easily be explained otherwise." Chief Project Scientist Gerald Soffen is less certain. "It is possible," he notes, "to formulate chemical equations to describe all the results we've had." Whether these are the right equations, though, remains to be determined. Adds Soffen: "It's not a question of finding a chemical explanation; we must find the chemical explanation, and we need a natural as opposed to a blackboard explanation...
There is good reason for Soffen's -and NASA's-caution; the implications of discovering any form of life on Mars are so staggering that no scientist can afford to be wrong. But the ambiguities surrounding the Viking biology tests may soon be resolved. Now that Mars has re-emerged from behind the sun-which blocked transmissions between Viking and the earth for more than a month late last year-scientists have "reawakened" the sleeping laboratories and instructed them to run a new round of experiments...
While Morris's boss wanted him fired for "insubordination" and "inefficiency," an independent hearing examiner ruled that Morris's infractions were minor, and that the scientist should be suspended for at most five days. But Alexander M. Schmidt, then Commissioner of the FDA, overruled the examiner, and on July 16, 1976, J. Anthony Morris was fired...