To Establish a Fact
| Autor: | Harry A. Feldman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Infectious Diseases. 141:525-529 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6613 0022-1899 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/infdis/141.4.525 |
| Popis: | Those of you who know me personally are aware of the special relationship which has existed between Maxwell Finland and myself since I first came to the Thorndike in June 1942 and also will appreciate the sense of elation with which I accepted the Committee's nomination to serve as the Maxwell Finland Lecturer at this year's annual meeting. The resultant euphoria was rudely shattered on the third of September by an accident which resulted in my being grounded and thus unable to be physically present at this meeting. Consequently my eldest son, Dr. Ronald E. Feldman, will present the remarks which I have prepared for the occasion. I have always been intrigued by the difficulties with which biological science moves from point A to point B. Even the apparent shortest distances seem interminably complicated by variables whose definition requires endless experimentation, frequently of the most complex kind. Often in small group teaching, I have reached for a nearby textbook, opened it at random, and read aloud the first declarative statement which comes into view. This I usually follow with the questions, "What do you think it took to permit this statement?" "Has it really been established?" After a brief, quiet interval, a lively discussion usually follows. One such statement, the identification of toxoplasma antibody activator, with which I personally have had 30 years of involvement, has now reached the point of definition, so that I believe it to be an appropriate illustration of the more general problem just mentioned. Let me give you another relevant example. The textbook [1] which my class used in our course in bacteriology was a new, encyclopedic volume |
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