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Howard DUFF in

“CALAMITY JANE and SAM-BASS”

which, he argues, are very, very slinky.

Here is ample example of what he means, Suppote zience decides to prove that there is no Such thing as a ghost. They Standen, would maintain Dr Anthony

watch for whose brilliance at Britain's ghosts. No ghosts would appear. Oxford and America's Cam- They would say their scientific bridge qualifies him to be B method" had proved there were high priest of the cult, no posts, proves that.

But what, asks Dr Standen, if In a book, "SCIENCE IS A The chest were smart enough to SACRED COW,” which he has appese only when the scientist Just published in America, Dr was absent or always behind his That, he says, In the Standen sels about the Chapinan back? Finchers of this world numerci- weakness of relentials fully. He writes, for instance:-

From the hypothesis they form

"What with scientists who are than a series of carefully staged

in science

of

that they observations, they say that 40- so deep cannot see it, and non-scientists and-ru is the case. Instead who are too overawed to ex- that it should be the case, press an opinion, hardly anyone

is able to recognise science for

SCIENCE

"It considered unseemly for n selentin to do so. With this Imitation they can never discuss the implications of evolution properly.”

Wild fancy

psYCHOLOGISTS get a rough

going-over in this book, "They

study

what it is, the great Sacred Cow How they argue uncontrolled

of our me."

21

After reading his debunking

I am the layman-!{ Job, typical one-comer away full of hope that this old world will Mr Pincher's survive what friends have done to 1.

From now on it is going to be

to take difficult for me setentists ng seriously take themselves.

the

SALPIDIOMA

Lancy

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It's that hair-shirt

says

Mr. Pincher

who

THREE YEARS IN THE ANTARCTIC

W

By

LORNA

WESTALL

THAT in it like to spend ease, night watch lasted for three years In the well over a thousand nights, Antarctic? Wouldn't One always imagines the An-

tarctic na a limitlers

But Beach

maks of

Greens

Gays and

you feel like shooting your whiteness. companions by the end? this is not no

"

What on earth would you do mauves from the icebergs, and with yourself all the time? blue reflected from the sky. Bernard Stonehouse knows colours of incredible

paint the landscape with pastel beauty. the answera. He told me in the winter, the sky darkens recently junt after he at noon, and the long twilight had returned from Stoning- begins.

ton Island, a literal no In the evenings, the expedi-: man's land, one thousand tion would finish “writing up” miles within the Arctic its work, note down the results Circle.

meteoro of experiments and logical conditions, read, play

caused comment in Stonington,

Bernard, the Stonington come of the barela 200 gramo biologist, in one of the first phone records, or listen to the overseas radio. One popular members of the expedition fritish radio quiz called "We to get back to London. When beg to Differ." in which a team he arrived at our meeting of two men argue with relish place off the Strand, gainst a female team of five. Thought-but he's a mere the Antarctic dweltera raciloed boy! Can this be the Antarc to this programme: "What wouki tic biologist reverently re- happen if eleven women Ilved

under similar circum- ferred to in the newspapers here

stances?" The BBC clid not as Mr Stonehouse? In tho

hazard a queer and Bernard middle of London, the An- Stoneitouse sald the idea did not tarctic ia as far away to the be thinking about.

ordinary Londoner as tho Sonse Of Humour moon. Had a bronzed tough Bernard has a sense of humour. walked in, it would havo by the way useful piece of been a little less fantastic. mental equipment for the An- Bernard is slight, with un- tarctic. When I asked him who Beanex the expedition. he ruly schoolboy hair. But I answered: "The Colonial Omee.. soon found he had an as- 1 suppere we were civil servants of - I didn't see any red tape surance and

Stonington!" manner beyond his years.

quietness

Still Modost Courted by correspon-

on

At other times, they would

men

And themselves desperately trying to remember what the dents, besought by the BBC, ordinary things looked like. and arguing at enormous length TOW Mr Standen's book Bernard is still modest to a about them. Once it was a ense iy # revealing self. degree. He will never be of trying to remeraber the Lon-

don Transport Underground map in danger of becoming a Some thought it was one colour, analysis of

has proverbial "when I was in

two another. Come in middle-age

No

୯୩ In vain they searched muddenly realised he is in Poonah" bure about Stoning- reed.

Almanack, And "We have done noth- Whitskom the wrong job. Anyone as ton.

thumbed through likely books. And worried about Good and Evil ing unusual," he said.

Finally, they could not bear it that ha any longer, and the wireless as he is would be more com. he was convinced

operator wired Londan

Trans- fortable in a hair shirt than❘ hadn't.

And yet, Stonington Island's port, who answered immediate- a laboratory jacket,

"Bull's eve, blue bar on expedition lived in one tut for Iv Standen has expected too three years three because Inst red circle, white lettering on He thinks it year, the Falklands Islands ship: Very many thanks. Our minds bar Stonington wired back: much of science.

failed Biscoe, resolve should

rellidous John dieulties as well as provide through to Stonington.

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his

፡፡

to get

and so

now at

as

case, much pedition, the temperament of

The chief tople of conversation him with an interesting living. the expedition lasted an extra

year. There was no alternative, Was generally the next sledging Having successfully

Within its first few months, the expedition, or the previous one.

these for 20 years, expedition's The Sacred Cow

outing, Bernard visited only aeroplane On

seal nur rookeries

and has let him ho now feels it

crashed on the when landing

penguin detached sort of way as if they down by falling to lay golden crate except for the radio, series. In his capacity binlogist,

and

OC seals and penguins. were not men themselves.

eggs. This comes of realising the They make wild leaps of their limitations of science rather late Stonington lived in total isola-s

Often

ng many an a million birds With typical reticence, would be cohabiting in tion. still in life. and

опо who was in the plane, rookery. Bernard,

The smell

unmis- grounded

wng themselves

gaid

the crash was not in the eakable at a distance of miles. firmly on objective facts..

least spectacular:

"We merely According to Bernard, penguins 》R STANDEN has no particu- "If you really want to under-

along the ice pack and skidded there The scientist's job is to in- human Jar quarrel with the facts stand

beings

are silly birds. He preferred the husky dors, the thing he misses be incher and company at are plenty of people to go to vestigate the "how" of things ne cracked up.

normal routine, the pre- most about the Antarctic. Each and to report his findings ob- A semble, but he does objce to besides psychologists.

He

And as with the arguments based on those

really

christened. "The

important ques- jectively. has no greater servation of ordinary day-to-day

for determining activities, the drill of regular the human members of the ex- facts.

tions in human life are hardly responsibility touched upon at nit by psychule- the "why" of things than the work-in Bernard's

come to believe lawyer, the clerk, or the brick-of it done in the laboratory ench was known and respected. Do Hars

there were the things which Each man possessed anything their own lica s pleasure the layer. That is religion's field,

of husicies, from one to a team as happiness? I

ethics and religion the Stonington members wisely only one kind of love?

are beyond analysis by labora accepted as a matter of course, and the excitement when husky Relaxation of discipline would You could take esurse after tory equipment. Standen 19 Example: A man gets drunk

been only too easy. There mothers produced tables war all offered in the name just

Most Found

notice it it w intense. on Munday on rye and Soda-

Penguin Eggs of the higher scientide balder- seientists realize ng before was no are to

or Thursday; no one Wednesday or water, Tuesday on Scotch an

dash, and In the end not be the they graduate.

Sponge cakes made with pen many things and has been right soda-water, Wednesday on it least wiser about these den.

to drop in and see if experi so many times, that it is hard e suda-water. The selentista,

I have never met a scientist who claims infallibility either ments were finished on required guin eres and seal straks broke to believe that it can be wrong looking for "the common factor" perately important matters."

dates, or check how many hours the food problem of monotony. in anything, particularly for which caused his drunkenue. Dr Stander is algo

Interost in Liqueur parties were held onco highly for himself or his methods. Re-

were being

put in. report work was vital. investigators the pulubio not have

on birthdnys. Ench IInd it died, n surveys Who does layman,

cutie 1 of produce night easily

their claims in the most modest the expedition's raison Sub-

d'etre

it in man tonk in turns of being enough knowledge of the

mnwer--the roda-water.

tamous Kinsey Report. Jeet to argue back.

This, he says, I mislitle and carefully qualified terms.

would have died with it. That cook for a Few of the ro-called greats in Sexunt Behaviour in The

Dr vosempe

Studen's Hannu Male," His title for it of -The sexual behaviour 5,300 men who were willing to talk about 1."

They will, he says, argue that as they one fact cured another, when often it may be the other way

That, Dr Standen explains, is the purpose of his savagery.

nchieved has "Science

round.

"Since it is only human nature

the erience to accept such fluttery scientists accept the laymen's lurpoon. opinion."

Good and Evil

example:

this

Darwin's theory of evolution. or ut least Mr Pincher's ac- ceptance of it, for instance. Dr

Standen agrees that it is indis-

Minne

COURA

Laughing

Bere

out

Morals,

ሳ

This

out.

WAS

week and

week. Bring cook

it did not is bome out by Ber- menni getting up at eight Instead

who all of nine. By 11 at night, Stonehouse,

nard

the

"I don't consider those three Stonington party was ready to

Standen says The scientiite years as a chunk out of my life, turn in. Hard work in the An- method is just "horse sense." but as the most important pari tarelle makes you tired--and at the same time, healthy, Most of He wrong. It is horse sense of it." to belleve that the sun moves No New Faces

round

the

more

the men lost a little weight, but kept very fit

What Bernard missed

The Stonington Island expedi than anything was new faces. tion was a question of quiet

Co-

But the earth. putable that there are striking

scientific method proves that the Dimilarities between the bodies DUT Dr Standen is no layman, of men and apes.

R This would D Stunden's advice and he reverse happens.

In the scientist's completely Ilis en companions (all British) persistence, of ceaseless He talks back to his fellow seem to prove, he agrees, that certainly practises what ho

pretty much tho came operation, of Relf-sufficiency. for Like this,

should impersonal approach, Standen had we scientists,

all forms of life on this planet preaches-is bat

senses a threat to the humanitates, They were all between There were no brillant feats, no Laugh out loud at scientists. are connected somehow,

and 30. But quarrels, fantastic discoveries, nothing to Scientists are turned out tarian ideals of Western society. 20

inevitable, were cause excitement or break tho thinks that in their work seemingly But he argues that selence has by mass production They He

but a lot of solid in terms of produced to the explainable therefore include men of very scientists should concern them rolled stay, very simple and monotony

more with how things effective way, Quarrel-making hard about the good and evil? Merely to ask by Eelence the question is to realise at least which they are connected." one very important limitation of physics."

"Is the universe to be thought of in terms of electrons and protons? Or..

like

Election, were not

the General mentioned.

fact

Snys he: "The question at wool pulled over our eyes if things are real danger in this you did not get on with any- another year in

Idea.

with a

way in ordinury, even mediocre, intel- selves

When they were faced with the lectunt powers. We are having ought to be and less with how subjects,

that they would spend the Antarctic, There la isatie is whether God gave things we let ourselves be convinced

The scientist

one, you avoided him; at least, the Stonington men were bitterly sort of evolutionary shove that scientists, taken us a group.

I disappointed. Two years is a long Political mlcgion ends up sup- avoided arguing with him. Mind you, he does not deny every now and then, or perhaps are anything special in the way

porting cults like Communism was like being on night watch time, and they had planned many or whether He of bruins.

But they re-adapted that selence has brought many all the time,

during the war: you got to know things. "We can and should laugh out und Fascism. benefits, all the way from TV Jus wound things up in the

Dr Fuchs and the This wilt, in toud at then. beginning and let them ris. to penicillin.

scientists who carried out the your companions to an abnor themselves, and Bernard found

mally

minute degree, and con- that he did his most important But what he objects to is the Unfortunately, biologists rarely fuel, be the very best wing concentration camp experiments sequently knew just those sub work in his third year. This a purpose to to gave a point and in talk about God (or at least only prevent them from regulating scientists place

off us or averaging us or condition were fair examples. "the scientific attitude" or "the on Sundays when they are

Only, in this his whole time there. of duty),

Ing us to synthetic happiness." scientifc method,"

faith most

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