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Show The Scientific Method. "George Bernard Shaw," said an editor, "likes to poke fun at scientists. He ridicules the high regard In which scientists are held. He says If a clergyman cler-gyman dares to mako a startling assertion, as-sertion, he Is disbelieved nnd reviled, whereas the rnshest, the most unfounded un-founded claims of scientists nre accepted ac-cepted reverently by the world ns so much gospel. Mr. Shaw once declared to mo that the utility of scientists was overrated. Ho said that was a typical' typ-ical' scientist to whom a young man took a superb clgarctto holder of clouded amber. 'Somo one claims,' said tho young man, 'that this amber Is imitation, sir. Will you tell mo how I may prove conclusively Its gen-ilneness?" gen-ilneness?" 'Just soak It,' said the scientist, 'for 24 hours In alcohol. If 't Is genuine, It will disappear.'" |