Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Snow, the British scientist and novelist, sounded the alarm in the 1950s about the dangers of two cultures: "Literary intellectuals at one pole, at the other scientists." Since then, microchips, satellites and nuclear power have become realities that define everyday life; yet many supposedly well-educated people do not understand how they work. Despite the growing use of computers in classrooms, American universities are still graduating millions of technological illiterates...
...value that experts have yet to determine. In the forests of Gahan and Cameroon, restriction recently discovered 17 previously un described species of tree. Over three fourths of all plant species exist in tropical forests, which have been described as "genetic reservoirs." As article in the current issueof New Scientist by Mark Plotkin and Richard Schyles, director of the Harvard Botanical Museum, notes that "conservative estimates put the member of plant and animal species in rain forests at about two million of which fewer than half have ever been described by scientists...
What impact will the bishops' words on weapons have? "It's too early to say what activism will mean in the broader American context," says Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann. "Certainly in terms of numbers alone the Catholics represent a potent political force. In part it depends on what they do with the pastoral letter. If it's stuck in a file cabinet some place, the long-term effect will be minimal...
...bishops also had to face the terrible paradox of deterrence: it is based on fear and therefore cannot work if one side or the other can be absolutely certain that nuclear weapons will never be used. This point was advanced by William V. O'Brien, a political scientist at Georgetown University, who noted in the Washington Quarterly that
From the cloistered political scientist spinning academic theories about ideological trends to the clubhouse party pro grubbing for fresh clues on how to elect future candidates, various experts will be mulling for months over the minutiae of the 1982 election returns. What matters in practical national terms, however, is how the politicians in power interpret the sentiments expressed by voters on Nov. 2, and how those millions of often clashing voices translate into calls for specific courses of governmental action. Last week there was an emerging consensus among leading politicians, based as much on intuition as solid evidence, about what...