Sentences with phrase «scientists say the law»

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You said, «LinCA I forgot to add that THIS IS NOT A COURT OF LAW so whether I am a scientist or not can not be determined by my words.»

«States regulate how long kids should stay in child restraints and how the law should be enforced,» says Jessica Jermakian, senior research scientist for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Spitzer, the political scientist, said he believes ethics reforms has the best chance of the three issues of becoming law because it has the most room for compromise.

Groups have been abusing public disclosure laws, the legal defense fund said in the amicus brief, «to harass scientists whose findings — or entire fields of study — they perceive as threatening their financial interests and ideological beliefs.»

Indian scientists are calling for a major rewrite of a proposed animal welfare law that they say could undermine research involving animals.

It's fair to say that many scientists seek out this route as a stepping stone to law school.

«It's not clear why female scientists reported more stress than males,» said Thomas J. Holt, MSU professor of criminal justice, «though it may stem from differences in the experiences of female scientists who are not sworn law - enforcement officers working in a quasi-military structure where more males are sworn officers, particularly in supervisory roles.»

Doug Boucher, who directs the Union of Concerned Scientists» Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative, said one potential deal in the works would see Brazil vowing to ensure strong enforcement of the Forest Code and possibly providing some certification that any beef exported to the United States was not done in violation of forest protection laws.

Foreign scientists often avoid contact with their Iranian peers for fear of falling foul of the tough sanction laws, he says.

Scientists will no longer be «molested» or «bullied» by unreasonable regulation, said science minister Aldo Rebelo while unveiling the law.

«The scientists should just tell us what they know and not worry too much about whether there's too much gloom and doom in it,» says Dan Kahan, a Yale law and psychology professor who leads the Cultural Cognition Project, studying public perceptions of risk.

Those experiences, along with getting a law degree, transformed him from a scientist working in patent law to a lawyer with a scientific background, he said.

Unfortunately, the Rwandan genocide's most prolific players have eluded both the law and science, says political scientist Cyanne Loyle of Indiana University Bloomington.

Police academies could take steps that give officers tools to avoid panic under fire, say several law enforcement officials and scientists.

Speaking to the RIA Novosti news agency, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the law is meant to help scientists concentrate.

Last year, Louisiana passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, a law that many scientists and educators said was a thinly veiled attempt to allow creationism and its variants into the science classroom.

Guidance can remain more nimble than law and it is easier to get consensus among scientists working in the area than among individuals who do not work in the field, Baltimore says.

«Many scientists in my field now find themselves at the receiving end of attacks by groups who abuse open records laws to saddle scientists with vexatious and intimidating demands for personal emails and other materials,» he said in an email.

At the moment, scientists don't know enough about the laws of physics to say whether these laws would permit the time equivalent of walking in a circle — or, in the parlance of time travelers, a «closed timelike curve.»

«I believe that a deaf scientist is more likely to be employed in the laboratory in the 1960s than today because many employers think that health and safety laws supersede the Disability Discrimination Act, and this is simply not true,» he says.

Regardless of a scientist's view on their origin, they say, discovering the laws of nature requires the same scientific methods and techniques whether the researcher is a devout religious believer or an atheist.

The scientists, he said, were guilty not of failing to predict the quake, but of failing to discharge their duties under the law.

«Our algorithm can go from observations to laws, but a human scientist needs to give meaning to it all,» Lipson says.

Now, using data from a new experiment, scientists say they have found that law.

If, after multiple measurements with this experimental setup, scientists found that the measurements of the particles were correlated more than predicted by the laws of classical physics, Kaiser says, then the universe as we see it must be based instead on quantum mechanics.

As New Scientist went to press, more than 3000 people had signed a petition on the site, saying they would invest if the law passes.

As climate change unfolds, local appellation laws may have to change to permit irrigation or to allow for grape varietals that can tolerate warmer climates, scientists say.

The MPs» complaints echo what scientists have been saying since the law was passed two years ago.

«We are disappointed,» said Michael Reedy of McManis Faulkner, the San Jose law firm representing the scientists.

«I don't think it's an overstatement to say that this issue is the mother of all [endangered species] decisions,» says forestry scientist Eric Washburn, of the law and lobbying firm Bracewell & Giuliani in Washington, D.C.

Within this program, about 10 percent go back to academia to become assistant professors, another 10 percent get hired as Genentech scientists, and the rest go on to work as scientists at other corporations or pursue other endeavors such as business development or law school, says Dixit.

«Now, in some ways, it's anathema to have a Western scientist contact» in Russia, Conley said about the law.

«What I can't understand is why we are expected to show respect for good scientists, even great scientists, who at the same time believe in a god who does things like listen to our prayers, forgive our sins, perform cheap miracles,» he said, prompting a burst of nervous laughter to ripple through the audience, «which go against, presumably, everything that the god of the physicist, the divine cosmologist, set up when he set up his great laws of nature.

A «carbon law» approach, say the international team of scientists, ensures that the greatest efforts to reduce emissions happens sooner not later and reduces the risk of blowing the remaining global carbon budget to stay below 2 °C.

He said that the jury did not need the help of scientists or Bible experts to decide the facts and to interpret the law: «The law is what the people decided.»

Much of the decline in violence in early states involved reduced numbers of murders and blood feuds, fostered by government rule and law enforcement, says political scientist Azar Gat of Tel Aviv University.

The legal case against 3M was helpful in giving scientists more information on the topic and also increasing public awareness of PFAS contamination, said University environmental law professor Alexandra Klass.

The same can not be said of those seeking to use important freedom of information laws to disparage academics and other public - sector scientists and abuse the freedom of information process to drive them away from ongoing important collaborations in the furtherance of sound, science - driven public and commercial policy development.

Laura Hamilton, senior behavioral scientist at RAND Corp., a nonpartisan, Washington, D.C. - based think tank, says that regardless of what happens with NCLB, the law has changed the public's perception of education.

Due to financial constraints, the social scientists were only able to do a study of two of Wisconsin's 72 counties, but the authors say that extrapolating statewide as many as 45,000 people stayed home because of the law.

Step one, the academy scientists say, should be for the Navy to continue pressing Congress to approve the 1982 Law of the Sea convention, which has long been supported by a majority of senators from both parties, as well as all recent presidents, but is opposed by a handful of conservative lawmakers.

Francesca Grifo, senior scientist and director of the scientific integrity program of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a news release that the new incident was a good reminder to British law enforcement agencies to «redouble their efforts to find the criminals who are behind» the initial release of the douments.

What does it say abut the govt scientist employees, that even after Climategate, they still believe themselves to be above the law?

Heartland's spokesperson frequently say there is no scientific consensus that most of the global warming of the twentieth century was man - made, or that scientists are able to predict future climate conditions, or, finally, that there is a basis in science or economics for passing laws that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

WUWT featured guest commentary by Tim Ball, who said that the recent dismissal of a lawsuit brought against him by climate scientist Andrew Weaver was «a victory for free speech and a blow against the use of the law to silence people.»

I'm sure Curry (climate scientist) understands the basics of OA system and 2nd law of thermodynamics better than I do (my degree is in unrelated discipline) so I think she applies said basic law of physics bogusly to intentionally mislead the listener.

Inhofe outlined three laws and four regulations that he said the scientists may have violated, including the Federal False Statements Act — which, the report noted, could be punishable with imprisonment of up to five years.

Seemingly contradicting this statement, Michael Halpern, CSD program manager and author of Freedom to Bully, says open - records laws should be amended to limit information available to the public, including limits on public access to e-mails between scientists, research notes, and primary data, telling the Associated Press, «We don't want to work in an environment where every keystroke is subject to public records.»

I know scientists are loathed to say that anything is «true», but if the laws of physics are the same all over the Universe, then I think it's safe to say it.

So, it's a Good Thing for political decisions to be made by unaccountable bodies, without either debate or due democratic process, if it will lead to a reduction in CO2 — because «scientists say so» — but it's «undemocratic» to loosen planning law (if that is what is being proposed) so that new houses and civil infrastructure can be built without interruption from organisations such as itself.