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Vol. 72, No. 9, September 1992, pp. 622-623
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The Things We Read: Fact or...?

Jules M Rothstein, PhD, PT, Editor

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

In the movies of my youth you knew who the bad guys were because they wore black hats and the music that played when they appeared sent your psyche into red alert. When the villain was about to lead someone astray, there was no mistaking his intent. In the artificial reality of the movies images can be painted in bold strokes, but the real world often lacks these clear lines of demarcation, and often there are no villains. Those who would lead us from virtue often know not where they take us. Many times mistakes are made when beliefs take precedence over evidence—and even "experts" make mistakes.

Shortly after completing what he thought was an elegant model of the DNA molecule, James Watson1 shared his news with a colleague, who, in no uncertain terms, told him the idea would not work....


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