Free Radicals - Michael Brooks [144]
aftermath/consequence of warfare 219, 230
testing 219–20
nucleic acids genetic code and 88, 89
prion diseases and 82, 86–7, 99 see also DNA
RNA
Numonyx 211
Nuremburg Code 107, 111, 254
O
Obama, President Barack 145, 147, 205
Ohanian, Hans 60
opiate anaesthesia 110
Oreskes, Naomi 239, 240
Ortega y Gasset, José 257–8, 259
overpopulation 230, 249
overspecialisation in science 257–8
ovonic unified memory 211
Ovshinsky, Stanford 207–13, 215, 256–7
ozone layer, hole 223–30, 240
P
Palmer, Eddie 114
PCR (polymerase chain reaction) 20, 21
Pearman, John 118
Pearson, Gerald 167
Penzias, Arno 12
peptic (gastroduodenal) ulcers 112–25
pesticides and the environment 231–3
Petterson, Ralf 84–5
pharmaceutical industry 26, 125, 128, 244
Philolaus of Croton 159
Pinch, Trevor 67
Pirie, Bill 86–90
Planck, Max 48, 61, 69, 95, 201
plant evolution and microbial symbiosis 181–6
plaques and Alzheimer’s disease 97–8
plasma 205
plate tectonics 169–70
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 20, 21
Pope(s)
La Sapienza visit by Pope Benedict 42–3, 44
reproductive medicine and 139–40
Stephen Hawking meeting John Paul II 161
Pope, Alexander 46–7
population growth, excessive 230, 249
power of science, public fears 4
primates, non-human, rights 157–9
Principia 47
Priola, Sue 93
prion diseases 75–100
Pritchard, David 128–32
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 203
Donald Williamson and Lynn Margulis and 187, 188, 189
protein
DNA sequence coding for 88
as prion disease agent 80–99
Prusiner, Stanley 78–100, 248
psychedelic/hallucinogenic drugs (incl. LSD) 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 111, 112, 243–4, 245, 246, 247, 259
Ptolemy 44, 47, 160
public
climate change and opinion of 9
fear of science 4
pulsars 190
Q
quantum theory 29, 48, 61, 95
quarks 92, 99
R
racism 199
Ramakrishnan, Venkatraman 242, 259
Randall, Lisa 1
Ratzinger, Cardinal 42–3
recklessness in research 101–32
Redman, Barbara 71–2
Reed, Major Walter 126
Rees, Alun 243
Rees, Martin 252
Reeves, Carol 93
relativity theory 28, 29, 59, 64, 68, 69
general 63, 66, 193, 250
special 27, 28, 48, 57, 60, 69
religious faith 33–40
animal rights and 158–9
reproductive technology and 139–42, 147
see also God
reproductive research and technology 134–41, 137–57
Ridley, Matt 174, 243–4, 244, 248
Rifkin, Jeremy 154
rights, non-human primates 157–9
Riordan, Michael 166, 167
Ritalin (methylphenidate) 23, 24
RNA (ribonucleic acid) of tobacco mosaic virus 86–7
Rohn, Jenny 190
Rohwer, Robert 83–4
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 256
Rowland, Sherwood 222–7
Roy, S. K. 214
Royal Society 4, 67–8, 170, 201, 216–17
S
Sagan, Carl 181, 219–21, 237, 239, 241, 246–7
Sandemanian sect 33–4, 36, 37
Sandoz, LSD manufacturer 244
Sarewitz, Daniel 13
Sauerbruch, Ferdinand 107
Schimper, Andreas 185
Schneider, Stephen 227
Schrage, Michael 3
Schrödinger, Erwin 258, 258–9
‘Scientists Behaving Badly’ (2005 survey ) 55, 56, 70
Scorer, Richard 225
scrapie 79, 81, 83, 84, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98
Second World War
science before 2
effect on views of science 3–4
unethical experimentation 107
self-experimentation 106, 110–12, 123–4, 128–32
semiconductors 166, 207–8
SETI 217, 218
Shapin, Steven 3
Shermer, Michael 221
Shettles, Landrum 133–4, 136
Shive, John 167
Shockley, William 166–9
Shostak, Seth 217–18
Silent Spring 232, 233
silicon
amorphous 208–10
transistors 165–8, 208–10
Simpson, James Young 110
Singer, Peter 158
skin cancer 223, 224, 226, 230
Skloot, Rebecca 128
slow virus 78, 79, 80, 94
Smith, Richard 249
Snyder, Omar 31
space 199–200
bending by mass 63–4
Earth’s motion through 49–50
properties of 36–7, 202
weather 205
special relativity theory 27, 28, 48, 57, 60, 69
specialisation in science 257–8
sperm
artificial 148–50, 156
spiral bacteria