In my view, this group - think situation is very consistent with the new trend for academic science to now be just a commercialized business entity (see my earlier article in the Big Problems category on «What is the Very
Biggest Problem for Science Today?»).
«Illegitimate journals are becoming
a big problem for science,» said Moher.
Not exact matches
the
problem with todays interactors is ignorance of the facts of
science and history, how can you repeat the
big bang when the process takes billions of years, and
science does not need countless repeatation or the people in Nobel Awards commitee are idots fir awrding the Nobel prize last year to Higgs
for the Cern Switzerland disvovery
On May 3, 2017,
Science retracted the study described in «Tiny plastics cause
big problems for perch, lab study finds» (SN: 6/25/16, p. 14).
«Bullying is a
big social
problem that not only creates an unhealthy climate
for individuals but also undermines schools and communities,» says Stephen Russell, professor and chair of human development and family
sciences at UT Austin.
Great
science happened because «over-the-top, passionate people» poured their talents into
big problems without having to worry about competing
for individual, short - term money.
Indeed, according to Roddam Narasimha, the DST Year - of -
Science Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre
for Advanced Scientific Research in Jakkur, Bangalore, the
big problem with research in India's university system is not so much funding as «the difficulty universities have in attracting gifted scientists from within the country or abroad.»
«There are still
big problems facing women in the
science, technology and engineering fields,» says Phoebe Leboy, president of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a biochemistry professor emerita at the University of Pennsy
science, technology and engineering fields,» says Phoebe Leboy, president of the Association
for Women in
Science (AWIS) and a biochemistry professor emerita at the University of Pennsy
Science (AWIS) and a biochemistry professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.
The reason that today's
big data sets pose
problems for existing memory management techniques, explains Saman Amarasinghe, a professor of electrical engineering and computer
science, is not so much that they are large as that they are what computer scientists call «sparse.»
Recognizing the reality that genomics analysis is a
big data / HPC (High Performance Computing)
problem in a field where life scientists are focused on the biology and not computer
science, Intel has been reshaping genomics software tools and cluster configurations
for life
sciences in the many - core era with Intel Scalable System Framework (includes many - core processors, new 3D memory, high - performance networking fabric, and Lustre storage).
Several other
big problems are particularly destructive for scientists working in academia (see: «The Biggest Problems Killing University Science Still Prevail in 2016!&
problems are particularly destructive
for scientists working in academia (see: «The
Biggest Problems Killing University Science Still Prevail in 2016!&
Problems Killing University
Science Still Prevail in 2016!»).
An even
bigger problem is that when athletes and active people try to follow diets, they aren't following ones based on this
science with recommendations created by a sports dietitian
for their individual lifestyle and training.
«It's something that puts huge amount of pressure on schools and individual teachers who are there at the moment covering those lessons in
sciences and it's a
big problem for students in terms of access to that
science specialism as well as access to individual support.»
One of the
biggest problems for Common Core supporters has been their unwillingness to actually admit what is plain: That their goal is to essentially create national reading, math, and
science curricula.
The
big problem with blogs is that there is no way
for an outsider to know which are reasonably careful creations of informed scientists, which are opinions of the scientifically illiterate, and which are astroturf creations designed to confuse critics of
science that is in conflict with an industry.
The
problem, claimsguy, is that the «experts» and the
science they produce is corrupt and biased, since it is all paid
for Big Government seeking to get even
bigger.
In fact, the Holocene cooling is a
big enough
problem in
science that it constitutes a puzzle
for climate modelers: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/34/E3501.abstract
Apart from the more obvious eco-waffle, however, the
biggest problem for hopes of a climate agreement are the many contested alarmist interpretations of «the
science».
Climate
science might have a
problem with the recent TSI downturn causing 0.2 C cooling, but you'd think the idea would be right at home
for certain skeptics who decry climate
science and bang on about obvious «
big ol' yeller» in the sky all the time and how it influences climate so.
For me, the
big problem with climate
science is that it tries to predict the climate 100 years into the future.
It is, however, a
big problem for the use of the results of climate
science in decision making.
This
biggest problem here is that climate models are only a tool
for science, they in themselves are not
science, but rather statistical analysis.
Thanks to Stefan
for this summary of what currently seems to be the
biggest problem in climate
science.