The Drugging of the Masses

The American geneticist H. Bentley Glass is the most famous scientist you’ve never heard of. An administrator par excellence, Glass served as the president of numerous professional organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Society of Human Genetics, the American Society of Naturalists, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP),Biological Abstracts, and the National Association of Biology Teachers; edited the Quarterly Review of Biology for over forty years; spearheaded a major effort to reform American biology textbooks (the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, or BSCS); and ended his career as Academic Vice-President of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY–Stony Brook).