Word: spitzer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strand's statement to the faculty on the Spitzer incident was based entirely on this letter, Strand asks, "Why should a chemist bother to stir up controversy in the field of genetics? I can tell you. It is because he sees right down the party line without any noticeable deviation and is an active protagonist...
...Spitzer replied, "I did not stir up the controversy, but rather commenied on an editorial on Soviet genetics. The editorial was by a chemist, in a chemical journal, and was discussed by two other chemists in the same issue...
Strand, again in his statement charged. "He (Spitzer) supports the charistan Lysenko in preference to what he must know to be the truth." Spitzer answered. "I did not support Lysenko in my letter in any case, it is aboard to reason that agreement with a Soviet scientific theory is evidence of adherence to a party line...
Closing his statement to the faculty, Strand said, "Many men in Soviet Russia have died in concentration camps, or by other means, because they would not accept the untruths which Ralph Spitzer has chosen to espouse . . . Dialectical materialism! A better name would be dialectical murder. The case is closed to far as I am concerned...
...Both Spitzer and LaVallee are appealing to the American Association of University Professors...