Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That use, Wall reports in New Scientist, "is surprisingly rare and the number of cases is decreasing." At "the most active hospital using acupuncture," the technique was employed in 845 cases in 1970 and in only 324 in 1973-a mere 6% of all the year's operations. About half of 1973's operations using acupuncture were relatively minor, involving the removal of small thyroid nodules. Even for the least radical operations, most of the patients had their acupuncture reinforced by sedation with barbiturates, followed by a morphine-type analgesic and in some cases by injections...
...well-intentioned blundering; and a brief foray into show biz, in which Frankenstein and his creation put on a fractured vaudeville. Brooks is always at his best making fun of the delicious stupidities of popular entertainment (recall Springtime for Hitler in The Producers), and this scene, with scientist and subject in top hat and tails performing Puttin ' On the Ritz, is some sort of deranged high point in contemporary film comedy...
Last week the once proud group was in disarray. Rosenfeld, 21, was in hiding after a disciplinary board had forced him to leave Harvard in disgrace. The reputation of Dressier, a respected scientist, had been somewhat tarnished. Most important, serious doubt had been cast on the validity of the transfer factor experiments...
...Ravages of Spring a middle-aged country doctor on a round of house calls finds himself threatened by a string of tornadoes. He seeks shelter in a clap-board-gothic house and lands in the middle of a Vincent Price movie. It includes a mad scientist, a demented, beautiful woman and a terrible secret: through genetic tinkering, the scientist claims to have discovered how to populate the world with exact duplicates of himself and his companion. Solipsism teeters toward the edge of reality. The storm explodes the house like an inflated hypothesis, but the doctor survives...
...series of witty and often profound essays, a scientist sees the world not in a grain of sand, but in the pullulations of a single cell...