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...subconsciously. (Within half-a-dozen years, of course, Emily might easily be doing the Deepak Chopra thing just to drive her mother crazy.) So while the idea of testing TT was all Emily's, her parents were only too eager to bring her up to speed on the scientific method and statistical analysis. Moreover, mother and stepfather, along with Dr. Stephen Barrett, chairman of an outfit called Quackwatch Inc., helped her write the paper. Linda, in fact, is credited as lead author...
Against the worship of abstractions, F.D.R. wanted to find practical ways to help decent men and women struggling day by day to make a happier world for themselves and their children. His technique was, as he said, "bold, persistent experimentation...Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." Except for the part about admitting failure frankly, that was the practice of his Administration...
Though this was a unique method of criticizing his work, the assault on genetic research has sometimes been like this: passionate, premeditated, but maybe driven by anxiety more than anything else. As a society, we tend to be nervous about knowledge, especially that which concerns the very building blocks of existence. Genetic engineering is exactly the kind of vague, little understood subject that can scare people with its Orwellian implication...
...prototypical attempt to disguise oneself involves hiding behind a pair of impenetrably dark sunglasses, pulling a wide-brimmed hat down low over the brow and wearing slobby non-descript clothes. The method is used ostentatiously by Hollywood stars and ridiculously by cliched private eyes in detective flicks...
With something of the same method and intent, Mamet writes about Hollywood. His plays, films and essays contain many scalding observations on mainstream filmmaking. Yet from 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice through The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa and The Edge, Mamet has written solid, burly movies for top producers and stars while pursuing a parallel career with the modestly budgeted films he writes and directs himself. "I'm really fortunate," he says. "I have some good friends and supporters in Hollywood." And he knows that part of his job as a filmmaker is "shaking money out of those...