Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imperial couple chatted with a king-sized Mickey Mouse and watched a Bicentennial parade. What interested the Emperor most? Disneyland's diorama of primeval life in the Grand Canyon, depicting a variety of prehistoric animals-all of which seemed far more familiar to Hirohito, an avid natural scientist, than Disney's creations...
...School professor, who asked to remain anonymous, says it is likely that Ebert's successor will be more concerned with the direction of research within the University. Another basic scientist, who also declined to be named, said of Ebert, "There have been rumblings of discontent at the lack of vigor of his leadership...
After reading Patty's affidavit, other experts are skeptical about her account. Chalmers Johnson, a University of California political scientist who has studied brainwashing, doubts that Patty was ever as strongly influenced as she claims. "She may have been driven into hysteria and even into a catatonic state after her kidnaping," Johnson says, "but she was not brainwashed. No one can persuade me that Cinque [S.L.A. Chief Donald DeFreeze] was bright or skillful enough to brainwash anyone...
...results show a wide chasm between what C.P. Snow called the "two cultures." For example, most scientists pictured themselves as approachable, open and admired people with wide-ranging interests. Yet most nonscientists thought they were remote, secretive and rather unpopular, with few interests outside their fields. The two sides disagreed most sharply on whether scientists had a strong sense of right and wrong. Generally, scientists affirmed that they "would stop their work if they thought it was harmful." But nonscientists were skeptical. Said one reader: "When I think of a scientist, I think of intellectual curiosity triumphing over moral responsibility...
Strong Disenchantment. A few nonscientists were openly abusive. One reader defined a scientist as "an uncultured illiterate." Others expressed their concern about the "dangers" of science, citing such worries as pollution, weapons research and what one writer described indignantly as experiments on "dogs, rabbits and other small animals in cages." Disenchantment with scientists was strongest among people in their 30s and 40s; rather surprisingly, given their supposed doubts about the benefits of modern technology, younger people were the least critical...