The Baltimore Affair

The Baltimore affair: a different view.

You’ve heard it all before, perhaps: the epic story of an uncooperative lab director with communication problems; a disenfranchised and disillusioned whistleblower with a mission, a world-renowned but obstinate scientist; a powerful congressman with a mandate to ensure that the taxpayer’s money is used responsibly; a duo of unofficial but intellectually well-armed and ethically uncompromising i...

Baltimore County , Baltimore

It has been found that listeners with sensorineural hearing loss who show similar patterns of consonant confusions also tend to have similar audiometric profiles. The present study determined whether normal listeners, presented with filtered speech, would produce consonant confusions similar to those previously reported for the hearing-impaired listener. Consonant confusion matrices were obtain...

The Alder Hey affair.

The monkey gland affair

His method of working involves very close study of the texts in order to uncover the medical concepts of their authors. For example, when he analyses the vocabulary of disease, showing how diseases are described and named, his conclusions illuminate the question of the extent to which individual characteristics ofthe patient are thought to influence the symptoms and course of the disease. One c...

The Singapore Herald Affair

lN MAY, 1971 THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT CAUSED AN ENGLISHlanguage newspaper, The Singapore Herald, to cease publication. Although its circulation was considerably less than the long-established Straits Times, in its year of existence the Herald had gained many loyal readers. They looked to the Herald for balU?ced, critical commentary on national affairs, something rarely found in the Times, at le...