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American Journal of Law & Medicine, June, 2004 by Robert R. Kuehn
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I. INTRODUCTION
There is a long history of attacks on scientists. During the Inquisition, the Roman Catholic Church charged Galileo with heresy and, after imprisonment and threats of torture, forced him to renounce his theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe. (1) In the 1950s, politicians sought to silence scientists that allegedly held political views sympathetic to Communists. (2)
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In recent years, research results, rather than the scientist's religion or politics, have motivated attacks on scientists. As environmental issues grow in economic significance and as science takes on increasing importance in influencing public opinion ...
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