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Taking a deep breath this able scientist added a final cracker: "It is also within the realm of possibility, although it might not be wise, that we could produce ovulation that would result in more than one child if the patient wanted twins...
Like many another elderly and distinguished scientist, Britain's Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an article in which he referred to the tripleweight atom of hydrogen, generally called tritium, as "triterium." When this verbal goblin reached the eye of Dr. Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium...
...esoteric literature as being followers of his ideas. I promptly and publicly repudiated any such implication ... in my column in the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Indeed, so far as I know, Benjamin DeCasseres is the only writer, aside from Mr. [Tiffany] Thayer, who has ever taken Fort seriously as a scientist. It is not likely that such persons as the late Justice Holmes, Lincoln Steffens and myself would entertain any such views as those implicit in Mr. Fort's writings...
...Kellogg laid not the slightest imputation against Dr. Rhine's sincerity, but he implied that the "will-to-believe" can lead an honest scientist astray as well as a layman. The one thing that seemed certain last week was that, since the parapsychology question goes to the root of human mentality, it will go on attracting attention, Dr. Rhine will go on attracting adherents, and more skeptics will join Dr. Kellogg on the other side of the fence. And the mechanism of telepathy and clairvoyance, if they exist, remains to be explained in toto...
...also has thin hair and a holdover passion for ants. When he is not hunting ants in his spare hours, he is inclined to read anything from detective stories to incunabula. Fond also of the human animal, he loves parties and has been known to seat a distinguished scientist at dinner next to a circus freak. Director Mann's system of running his zoo is one of complete democracy. He insists that when he first arrived the head keeper set him to cleaning out cuspidors...