Many major scientists have complained that, in the review of their papers, they have been included in that consensus".
She emphasises the way in which his work was a collaboration with all his informants, not only the major scientists but the minor pigeon-fanciers and worm-diggers.
Mr. Grubin acknowledged that he "played it safe" in terms of choosing for his series major scientists whose work reflects today's dominant paradigms of how the brain works.
But Dr. Hugh Gusterson, a cultural anthropologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies American science and the federal laboratories, said he believed there is a particular problem with the Bush presidency, in that most major scientists today, whatever their politics, are unwilling to accept White House policies.
He was unique among the major scientists in not possessing an academic qualification in any branch of science.
These guys are serious, major scientists and we've been waiting for this result for some time.
In his own time his influence was acknowledged by the major scientists of the day, such as John Herschel, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell and Michael Faraday, who frequently turned to Whewell for philosophical and scientific advice, and, interestingly, for terminological assistance.
Dozens of Noble Prize winners and other major scientists and former astronauts and space leaders have endorsed this new way forward.
A few major scientists and top UN diplomats rubbed their jaws, saying, "I don't know, maybe there is something to what you say, but these guys are thugs; they can't think that strategically for themselves.
For instance, at the beginning of the semester, students are given written descriptions of five major scientists and their experiments that played a role in the 200-yr debate on spontaneous generation.
