前言:AD-X2 事件

IF 2.6 4区 工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10622065
Allison Marsh
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1947 年,一位名叫杰斯-M-里奇(Jess M. Ritchie)的推土机操作员和一位名叫梅尔-兰德尔(Merle Randall)的著名物理化学家开始销售 AD-X2,他们声称这种添加剂可以延长铅酸蓄电池的寿命。消费者对其效果赞不绝口,然而国家标准局在对该产品进行测试时却无法证实这一说法。这场争论演变成了一场充满政治色彩的多年事件,涉及参议院听证会、邮局禁令、国家标准局局长辞职,以及在 400 多名科学家威胁辞职以示抗议后他的复职。在新闻界上演的这出大戏,是一个自强不息的 "大卫 "与一个越权的政府 "巨人 "的对决。但最终,科学赢了。
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Past Forword: The AD-X2 Affair
In 1947, a bulldozer operator named Jess M. Ritchie and a prominent physical chemist named Merle Randall began to market AD-X2, an additive they claimed extended the life of lead-acid batteries. Consumers raved about the results, and yet the National Bureau of Standards could not substantiate the claims when it tested the product. The dispute devolved into a politically fraught, multiyear affair involving Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the NBS director, and his reinstatement after more than 400 scientists threatened to resign in protest. The drama that played out in the press pitted an up-from-your-bootstraps David against an overreaching governmental Goliath. In the end, though, science won.
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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程:电子与电气
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