Assertion: institute's staff | /r/CapableOf | devote much of its research effort
Facets:
value: to scouring the scientific literature
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Historian of science Ronald L. Numbers states that "[d]espite its name, the institute for years conducted little research outside the confines of its modest library" and cites (founding member) Duane Gish as "explain[ing] apologetically in 1978, [that] the staff devoted much of its research effort to scouring the scientific literature for references favorable to creationism.