Word: scientists
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...both a scientist and a long-term participant in the program, I have publicly expressed the opinion that the claims are true. I would like to clarify my intellectual understanding of how such effects of the T.M. program are possible, especially since I feel that these developments hold considerable importance for the world. The key to this understanding is "direct experience...
...source of the scientist's faith in this assumption deserves investigation. Can his faith in the orderliness of nature derive solely from the word of authorities in his field, or is there something more? Direct experience, it seems, is that something more...
...predictable. By behaving in a certain way he can turn over, sit up, crawl on all fours, and so on. All this is preverbal, deeply ingrained in his awareness. Is it not probably that this and other such direct experiences of the world are the main sources of the scientist's faith that the universe is orderly and lawful? This is one way in which direct experience may be said to be the basis of science. There is another, more obvious...
...only hope that before writing his next critical comments on a social scientist and his theories, Mr. Emmerich might do more background homework research. This is not a funny matter. For in making the sweeping generalizations against DeVore and "sociobiology" J. Wyatt Emmerich displays the inconsistencies and foibles to which he attributes DeVore. And this tactic is conservative politics at its very worst. --Steven P. Stepak
...Martin Cruz Smith (Norton; $8.95). In a tour de non-force suspense novel that mixes virology and American Indian mythology, Hopi hopes and bureaucratic horrors, Author Smith, 35, weaves an all too believable parable of tribal endangerment. His unlikely detectives, a flaky young Indian deputy and an obsessed paleface scientist, encounter a mass killer of a different sort: a vast horde of plague-spreading vampire bats. Smith, who is one-half Pueblo, explicates the Indian psyche and bat pathology as deftly as he creates blood-filled characters...