I would bet that the gay neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community. (firstthings.com)
But even if the data released today is representative of the whole scientific community, Smith contends that no single number can capture the worth of a scientist's work. (sciencemag.org)
This norm - setting task is the responsibility of the whole scientific community. (newscientist.com)