Word: scientists
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...that the use of the figurative term 'Butt-Head' negates the impression that Defendant was seriously implying an assertion of fact. It strains reason to conclude that Defendant was attempting to criticize Plaintiff's reputation or competency as an astronomer. One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase 'butt-head.' Thus, the figurative language militates against implying an assertion of fact...
...credentials are certainly impressive. A professional social scientist, with a degree in Russian history from Harvard (class of 1965) and a Ph.D in political science from MIT, Murray is a Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the prestigious think-tank in Washington, D.C. And his new book, "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" was written with Richard J. Herrnstein, who held the Edgar Pierce Chair in Psychology at Harvard until his death last month...
Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould painstakingly critiques this sordid history in his oft-praised book "The Mismeasure of Man." As Gould notes, American scientist H. H. Goddard wrote in 1919 that superior intelligence ensures social dominance: "Democracy is a method for arriving at a truly benevolent aristocracy." While America has changed significantly through the century, Murray's argument is eerily reminiscent of earlier dubious claims...
...apparent to me that there is an explosion of genetic information but also a real vacuum of knowledge for the general practitioner," Housman said. "We came to the realization that the family physician should work together with the basic scientist...
...debate over who wins and loses as U.S. companies build factories abroad misses the point. The shift of expertise and capital, they contend, is inevitable. "The underlying skills in China are so great that any American company that transfers technology will create rivals," says Roy ( Grow, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The solution, Grow adds, is for American firms to develop new know-how faster than they can give away their skills...