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Whether CPOP can actually drive down the crime rate is still unproven. The most thorough study of its effectiveness, a 1981 examination of an experimental foot-patrol program in Newark, found that it did not decrease crime. It did pay off, however, in psychological well-being. The visible presence of so many patrolmen made people feel safer and better disposed toward the police...
...doctors working at Atlanta Hospital came up with a radical AIDS treatment -- heating up the patient's blood -- they let CNN know about it after just one trial. The gullible network broadcast live reports of the second attempt at treatment, giving free and favorable publicity to a farfetched, unproven medical procedure...
...Reduce the purchase of B-2 Stealth bombers from 132 to 75. But Cheney did not persuasively explain why the U.S. needs another expensive, as yet unproven strategic bomber at all when the Air Force already has the new B-1 bomber and the still reliable B-52. Moreover, in one of the traditional paradoxes of military procurement, slashing and stretching out the Stealth program will increase the per-plane cost from $530 million to $815 million...
...disease. Even though many medical experts worry about the dangers of releasing relatively untested drugs to a broader population, the FDA made a controversial decision last year to allow wide distribution of certain drugs that are still in the testing phase. Among the first was DDI, or dideoxyinosine, an unproven medicine dubbed by its enthusiasts "AZT without tears." The reference is to the most commonly used anti-AIDS drug, which can produce distressing side effects...
Whether attitudes like Olson's diminish American competitiveness is unproven. But taken to its extreme, anti-intellectualism demonstrably impedes technological progress. During the Cultural Revolution, for example, when professors were ridiculed and universities were shut, China suffered a "lost generation" of technical experts and academicians, a loss it is still trying to make...