Robert Hunt Sprinkle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5369605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Hunt Sprinkle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Hunt |
| FAMILY NAME | Sprinkle |
| SIGNATURE | SPRINKLE R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6961-1211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Were our critics right about the Stasi
The HIV-from-Fort-Detrick myth, most effectively promoted by Jakob Segal acting independently of any state's security service, was not, contrary to claims, a Stasi success
Disinformation squared
No, the HIV-from-Fort-Detrick myth was not a Stasi success. Impressions to the contrary can be attributed to reliance on presumptions, boasts, and inventions. Presumptions conceding to the Stasi an extraordinary operational efficiency and an irresistible competence - qualities we could not confirm in this case - made the boasts and inventions more convincing than their evidentiary basis, had it been known, would have allowed. The result was disin…
Moral suasion, installed
Breeding for virtue is no novelty. Conscientious prospective parents from deepest antiquity have hoped to breed for virtue in mate selection and peri-conceptual regimen. But methods may be changing. Plotting biotechnology's trajectory well beyond today's horizon, Professor Mark Walker asks if virtue is valuable enough to warrant breeding by molecular-genetic means. He presented this question as “Enhancing genetic virtue: A project for twenty-firs…
Six years and change
Distinctions, defenses, perfections, proportions, progressives, and disbelievers
The Missing Politics and Unsettled Science of the Trend Toward Earlier Puberty
The age of puberty in many populations has declined steeply over recent centuries and may be declining still. Consequently, today's children tend to experience the hormonal stresses of rapid development at younger ages than did their ancestors, around whose later, if not more gradual, maturation traditional behavioral expectations formed. Little has been made of this "rush to puberty" outside the life sciences. This article reviews its historical…
Guns, germs, and steel
Guns, germs, and steel
Life without Disease
Two Cold Wars and why they ended differently
Though usually assumed by scholars of international relations to have been one-of-a-kind, the Cold War—the global East-West rivalry that ended with the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union—resembled in many of its features an earlier match usually assumed by scholars of American history to have been entirely exceptional: the continental North-South rivalry that ended with the War Between the States. Each was a contest of ideologically ambitio…
Coming to Terms with the Microenvironment
Microenvironmental risks are largely unseen but not wholly uncontrollable. They are subject to exaggeration and misunderstanding but also to exacerbation, which can indeed be dangerous, and to amelioration, which requires a high degree of policy convergence. Technologically mediated alterations of the microenvironment have been both intentional and incidental; three types, while overlapping in mechanism and interactive in effect, may yet be disti…
Managed care
Managed care
Disinformation squared
No, the HIV-from-Fort-Detrick myth was not a Stasi success. Impressions to the contrary can be attributed to reliance on presumptions, boasts, and inventions. Presumptions conceding to the Stasi an extraordinary operational efficiency and an irresistible competence - qualities we could not confirm in this case - made the boasts and inventions more convincing than their evidentiary basis, had it been known, would have allowed. The result was disin…
The Missing Politics and Unsettled Science of the Trend Toward Earlier Puberty
The age of puberty in many populations has declined steeply over recent centuries and may be declining still. Consequently, today's children tend to experience the hormonal stresses of rapid development at younger ages than did their ancestors, around whose later, if not more gradual, maturation traditional behavioral expectations formed. Little has been made of this "rush to puberty" outside the life sciences. This article reviews its historical…
Coming to Terms with the Microenvironment
Microenvironmental risks are largely unseen but not wholly uncontrollable. They are subject to exaggeration and misunderstanding but also to exacerbation, which can indeed be dangerous, and to amelioration, which requires a high degree of policy convergence. Technologically mediated alterations of the microenvironment have been both intentional and incidental; three types, while overlapping in mechanism and interactive in effect, may yet be disti…
Managed care
Managed care
Life without Disease
Two Cold Wars and why they ended differently
Though usually assumed by scholars of international relations to have been one-of-a-kind, the Cold War—the global East-West rivalry that ended with the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union—resembled in many of its features an earlier match usually assumed by scholars of American history to have been entirely exceptional: the continental North-South rivalry that ended with the War Between the States. Each was a contest of ideologically ambitio…
The Missing Politics and Unsettled Science of the Trend Toward Earlier Puberty
The age of puberty in many populations has declined steeply over recent centuries and may be declining still. Consequently, today's children tend to experience the hormonal stresses of rapid development at younger ages than did their ancestors, around whose later, if not more gradual, maturation traditional behavioral expectations formed. Little has been made of this "rush to puberty" outside the life sciences. This article reviews its historical…
Guns, germs, and steel
Guns, germs, and steel
Distinctions, defenses, perfections, proportions, progressives, and disbelievers
Six years and change
Moral suasion, installed
Breeding for virtue is no novelty. Conscientious prospective parents from deepest antiquity have hoped to breed for virtue in mate selection and peri-conceptual regimen. But methods may be changing. Plotting biotechnology's trajectory well beyond today's horizon, Professor Mark Walker asks if virtue is valuable enough to warrant breeding by molecular-genetic means. He presented this question as “Enhancing genetic virtue: A project for twenty-firs…
Disinformation squared
No, the HIV-from-Fort-Detrick myth was not a Stasi success. Impressions to the contrary can be attributed to reliance on presumptions, boasts, and inventions. Presumptions conceding to the Stasi an extraordinary operational efficiency and an irresistible competence - qualities we could not confirm in this case - made the boasts and inventions more convincing than their evidentiary basis, had it been known, would have allowed. The result was disin…
Were our critics right about the Stasi
The HIV-from-Fort-Detrick myth, most effectively promoted by Jakob Segal acting independently of any state's security service, was not, contrary to claims, a Stasi success
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