Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colorful Images. Yet it takes more than making a dramatic stand or picking a controversial issue to make a scientist visible. Most of the scientists that Goodell studied are masters of the art of mass communications and are frequently sought out and publicized by the press. Paul Ehrlich, for example, admits that he is using Madison Avenue techniques to sell the public on halting the population explosion. "If they can sell flavored douches," he says, "we can sell anything...
...transnational companies, as a new, major and poorly understood force in world business, must somehow be responsible for the prevalence of such economic ills as high prices, unemployment and balance of payments hemorrhages. Such suspicions are being fanned by a new book, Global Reach (Simon & Schuster; $11.95) by Political Scientist Richard J. Barnet and Economist Ronald E. Müller, that is kicking up a considerable controversy...
...summer of 1967, Jocelyn Bell, a graduate student at Cambridge University's Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, discovered that a radio telescope she was monitoring had picked up some curious signals from space. She called the beat-like pulses to the attention of Astronomer Antony Hewish, the senior scientist. Hewish's team at first suspected them to be signals from an extraterrestrial civilization. But further inquiry proved that pulsars, as the signal sources were named, were actually long-sought neutron stars, small and incredibly dense collapsed stars. So significant was the discovery to the understanding of stellar evolution that...
...eminent feminist, deliberately feed she organization as a vehicle to draw women (especially in the south) into public activity under the umbrella of socially acceptable reform causes such as penal reform, labor legislation, the peace movement. Home economics at its inception was the vision of Ellen Richards, a scientist interested in creating new ways of employing women scientists. Her hopes lay in the broad field of "sanitary science" which covered everything from sewage disposal to consumer research. Although not always successful, women sought creative ways to circumvent the obstacles they found in pursuing their interests...
...those who care about such matters the event was as electrifying as the descent of a Martian spaceship. Abed recovering from pneumonia, Paul Buckley, senior scientist for the National Park Service in Boston, promptly got up on hearing the news of the sighting and drove straightway to Salisbury, Mass. Four Maryland enthusiasts drove all night to the site. One businessman winged in from Los Angeles. Friends desperately tried to get word to an expert vacationing in Africa to return at once. As the week wore on, cars with an array of license plates from across the nation flocked to Salisbury...