Key to Kibbitzer 37:

1. The language used to describe experimental arrangements and results has to be neutral with respect to the theories tested.
2. In the exchange between Siegel and Relman, no names were mentioned.
3. For Paracelsus and his followers, "chemicals" were inorganic materials. He used mercury to cure diseases and Debus describes, in detail, his use of antimony as a purgative.
4. They say they are interested in greenhouse gases, but the article gives few clues to their thinking. For example, carbon dioxide is not mentioned at all.
5. In his paper, in 1929, Fleming mentioned the possible use of penicillin as an antiseptic in surgical dressings, but the matter was taken no further.
6. We describe a model, based on our data, for the way in which MAP2 and tau crosslink microtubules.
7. The light's spectrum can be described in terms of a wave which is made by combining various amounts of different frequencies.
8. Every once in a while, when I mention to students that I did my first programming with punched cards, and see the disbelief in their eyes, I am reminded how fast and how far computing has come.
9. The first mention of Christmas Day, as far as we know, was in the Roman calendar for the year 354.
10. Any complete description of an organism must include an account of its energy transactions.

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