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When Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, former head of the World Health Organization, issued that somber warning in 1957, the public seemed to be of two minds about scientists-awed by their stunning achievements, but increasingly apprehensive about new dangers brought by technological progress, from nerve gases to nuclear weaponry. How do people feel about scientists today? Two British weeklies, the New Scientist, which reports developments in research and technology for a largely scientific audience, and New Society, which is dedicated to the social sciences, recently collaborated on an unusual readership poll in order to find an answer-and also...
Invisible Man. This new series started out a little better than most. David McCallum plays a conscientious scientist working on important research, but when it's a success and his thinktank decides to sell it to the Pentagon, he turns the research on himself and destroys the project. The project: invisibility. You might think its a big breakthrough for television to be dealing with such a controversial issue. But, when the students of the real issues are napalm-makers and poison gas developers aren't working on invisibility, they're working on laser-beam weapons and accurate nuclear weapons...
...treatment of bone cancer, osteogenic sarcoma, by chemotherapy, or the administration of chemicals. The field that Frei extols--medical oncology--is the study of tumors, and it is neither clinical nor pure research by his definition. Rather, Frei explains, it is a field only now "coming to fruition," involving scientist from almost all disciplines, and concerned especially with the effects of radiation therapy and chemotherapy on malignancies. In the Farber Center, Frei boasts, "No man can be an island; optimal evaluation and treatment for cancer involves the multiple occupation of a number of clinicians...
...Star Trek phenomenon, appealing primarily to fans of high school and college age, has been praised by critics for its scientific realism and an optimistic view of a cosmos in which all nations are united in keeping peace-despite villainous Klingons and Romulans. Jesco Von Puttkamer, a NASA scientist who gave two S.R.O. lectures at the convention, said that the show "reflects a positivistic attitude. It's a mirror to our present world with some adventure thrown in." Another academician who gives the show high marks is Astronomy Professor Leo Standeford, who has conducted a one-credit course...
...stations, then gradually subsided over a period of one week. Furthermore, the surface of the earth in the same area had undergone slight but noticeable changes in tilt. Those changes, he said, were just "the sort one would expect to see before a quake." John Healy, another USGS scientist, was even more emphatic. Johnston's data, he said, left little doubt that Hollister could expect a moderate earthquake of up to magnitude 5 on the Richter scale.* When? "Maybe tomorrow," said Healy...