Date: 2013-04-12 04:01 pm (UTC)
I started to skim over the first editorial, and apart from the pervasive background sexism it wasn't much more objectionable or insightful than any number of blog posts. Then I hit the part where he's speculating about how pure mutagens might be detected. Bear in mind that this was published in January 1963.

Inasmuch as we now have pretty good indication that genetic information is carried as a chemical code on protein molecules....

Protein molecules. *Ten years* after Watson and Crick published in Nature. That's not the sort of thing that gives me a lot of confidence in what he's saying, you know?
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