Today in Science (0825)

Events

1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

1981 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn

1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, at the time the outermost planet in the Solar System.

Births

1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer

1841 - Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher; Nobel Prize laureate

1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate

1903 - Ãrpád ÃlÅ, Hungarian physicist

1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate

1928 - Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1822 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer

1867 - Michael Faraday, English scientist

1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate

1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American zoologist and sexologist

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I have no scientific background other than an interest in what science has accomplished and I applaud all credible scientists and researchers. (scienceblogs is full of the people I want helping to secure our future.)

I did a little reading on "1956 - Alfred Kinsey, American zoologist and sexologist".

He's been vindicated and turned into a monster. How is his work looked at today after all the controversy? Was there any truth of what Judith Reisman claimed? (Didn't seem like it to me)

I found lots on the Kinsey Institute re-evaluating his claims and coming up with relatively the same data.

What is the truth? What is smear? Is there "the straight dope" on this man and his research?

TIA

By Gene Goldring (not verified) on 25 Aug 2007 #permalink

I thought for sure I would get something?

By Gene Goldring (not verified) on 30 Aug 2007 #permalink

I don't know anything about Kinsey. Sorry.

By John Lynch (not verified) on 31 Aug 2007 #permalink