Barry Commoner (1917–2012)

Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival: The Remaking of American Environmentalism

These days, no one scientist is so intimately associated in the general public mind with a particular scientifically based social problem as Barry Commoner was with the growth of the environmental movement in the mid-20th century. Commoner is a key, underexamined figure well worth introducing to the current generation of scientists and environmentalists, and in this densely referenced book, Mic...

Unraveling the DNA Myth, The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering, By Barry Commoner, 2/02

Biology once was regarded as a languid, largely descriptive discipline, a passive science that was content, for much of its history, merely to observe the natural world rather than change it. No longer. Today biology, armed with the power of genetics, has replaced physics as the activist Science of the Century and it stands poised to assume godlike powers of creation, calling forth artificial f...

Andrew Fielding Huxley (19172012)

Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM 1983; Kt 1974; FRS 1955; PRS 1980–1985, MA, Hon. ScD Cantab. Physiologist and Biophysicist. Born Hampstead, London, 22 November 1917. Demonstrator, 1946–50, Assistant Director of Research, 1951–59, and Reader in Experimental Biophysics, 1959–60, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge; Director of Studies, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1952–60; Jodrell Professor 1960–69, Ro...

Barry Duncan

1. What exactly is an evidenced-based practice? It usually means an approach that has established itself better than placebo or treatment as usual in two clinical trials. Such demonstrations are nothing to write home about; intervention of nearly any kind has demonstrated its superiority over placebo for 50 years! This research tells us nothing that we already do not know: Treatment works. So, ...

An Atlas of the Commoner Skin Diseases