Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another scientist who turned up for Temple-Smith's session was Charles R. Schaff, curatorial associate of the museum. One of the reasons Schaff was there is that two summers ago, on a 105 degree day in Big Horn County, Montana, Schaff was on an MCZ expedition kicking around a mesa looking for fossils. The group had been turning up dinosaurs, but on that particular morning, Schaff saw a small bone. "I knew at that moment that I had something," he says now. "Once I spotted the teeth, I knew it was a mammal...
F.D.R. received conflicting counsel from various advisers: Scientist-Administrators Vannevar Bush and James Conant, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr, War Secretary Henry Stimson. But the President, without telling any of his aides, concluded with Winston Churchill that the second option was the wiser. The two solemnized their agreement in a secret aide-memoire of a conversation at Hyde Park in September 1944: "The suggestion that the world should be informed regarding Tube Alloys [British code for the bomb], with a view to an international agreement regarding its control and use, is not accepted." Concludes Sherwin with characteristic understatement: "The Anglo-American...
...scientist, the announcement Thursday that a team of Harvard biochemists have artifically reproduced a mammalian gene for the first time was difficult to place in context...
These limitations have led to the increasing simplification and division of societal problems. With the division of the social sciences into fields like government, economics, psychology, analysis has become specialized and at the same time limited. No extensive change is possible so long as each scientist looks at only one part of the problem. Thus, "the principle of analysis is the enemy of revolution...
...appeal. A typical case is that of Leonid Plyushch, a cyberneticist whose aspirations for Ukranian cultural freedom led to charges of "creeping schizophrenia." He has been given massive doses of depressant drugs. After two years in one of the U.S.S.R.'s seven police-run lunatic asylums, the noted scientist has been driven to a state of mental and physical collapse...