Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-22
THE ATLANTA rR1-wEEkLY JOURNAL

lew months ago certain physicians an
nounced they had found q preparation called
insulin to be so effective in the treatment of
was a cure. AS this is being written a cable
dispatch Is received in this office from Paris
saying the French Academy of Medicine de-
clares insulin is mot sufficiently known to be
recommended to practitioners for the usual
treatment of diabetes"
Science, as it ought to be, is slow to &C
cept new things. 1t is skepticaI; it must be
SHOWN" One claim does not make a fact.
That is as 1t should be. But the "unscen-
tihc" newspapers telling of new things, some
times inaccurately, often carelessly, do their
part. They carry the claims of new things
to all the world. And the world has the
benefit of this, and can prove the claims to
be incorrect or can take them as the start
ing point of bigger and greater things.
BY the way, there was remarkably In
teresting test made the other day in a college
class room.
The students OF psychology nled into
room at Northwestern University, near Chi
cago. took their seats and the lesson began
Suddenly there was disturbance between
two students, a shot was fired, one of them
fell and the other fed.
The professor told the other students to
calm themselves, and to write Immediately
reports of everything that had occurred.
Out of fifty students, all but three insisted
they saw revolver, some adding flash and
some smoke. The student supposed to have
fired actually held a banana in his hand The
shot was fired in the rear Of the room, out e.
sight.
Descriptions of dress varied widely YER
siOns of the ordinations that preceded the
shooting were equally incorrect. One student
attempted to give the time exactly, saying he
had taken out his watch for the purpose. He
was hour out of the way and he gave a
date four days wrong.
The professor staged the incident as a test
of observation after he had taken the class
lively he could describe everything that hap
pened in burglary that took three minutes
This was a striking illustration of what is
known as the fallibility of human testimony
It is we'll understood principle of evidence
when witnesses agree in all details in de-
scribing an incident of action, the probability
is that someone is lying
The discrepancies In the four gospels are
taken by thoughtful people as additional
proof of the truthfulness of Matthew, Mark
Luke and John. Had they sought to fabri-
cate incidents in the life of Christ they
would have differed in no detail
The Incident in the college class room
strikingly shows the great difficulty news
paper reporters have. They seldom witness
the things they describe. They must obtain
their facts from eye-witnesses.
And it is astonishing how eye-witnesses
differ in relating thing.
One will say the moon is as big as a dol
lar. Another that it is the size. of barrel
head.
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