Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Auguste Piccard, 78, white-maned Swiss explorer-scientist who in the Jules Verne manner broke both the world altitude and depth records aboard his own inventions; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland (see SCIENCE...
CHARISMA: Oh, you're so wonderfully undeterminable. I used to dream of someone who wasn't a social scientist--and now I've found one: a real humanities...
...hell can a thing like this go on? When I found out I was mad enough to do some digging." The Professor, who was born in Alliance, Ohio, sixty-one years ago, has a ready laugh still untainted by cynicism. He knows it seems quixotic for a lone scientist to question the demands which the United States government has made at Geneva, but he has been frustrated for two years in winning a responsive, influential audience. After his fruitless visits to Washington he described to his Nat. Sci. 10 class why he suspected the detection data was inaccurate. Thus...
...Piel notes that "it is not the amount of support but the terms on which it is given that counts." This means that the public must be able to evaluate the various projects their government supports, and the way the support is administered. Thus the gap in communications between scientist and citizen "challenges the underlying assumptions of the democratic process." The gap grows more serious as scientific work becomes more expensive, requiring larger, more complex machinery and materials...
...perhaps too hard on some of the popular representations of science, though properly scornful of the standard routine which "dramatizes science through the biography of a hero scientist: at the denouement, he is discovered in a lonely laboratory crying "Eureka" at a murky test tube held up to a bare light bulb." But misrepresentation is not confined to scientists. Stylized representations of all professions, generally grossly inaccurate, flood our media. Our T.V. cowboys bear no more resemblance to real post-Civil War cowboys than Perry Mason and Nicholas Cain bear to real lawyers, or Peter Gunn to a real private...