They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.