Sentences with phrase «against political research»

Pishevar said he would focus on identifying «who is responsible for spreading false rumors about me» and pursuing a defamation lawsuit he filed in November against political research firm Definers Public Affairs, its founder Matt Rhoades and president Joe Pounder.

Not exact matches

Lawyers for President Trump's attorney Michael Cohen withdrew defamation lawsuits late Wednesday against BuzzFeed and the political research firm Fusion GPS related to a dossier that included claims Cohen helped organize Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.

Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder Echelon Insights, a Republican - leaning digital analytics and research firm, said the public outrage this week over the disclosures about Cambridge Analytica «feels like a double standard» against the backdrop of how the Obama campaign and other Democratic and Republican political operatives sought to use Facebook data during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

ESCR scientists are mounting a furious political assault against the lawsuit, currently back in Royce Lamberth's court urging that human embryonic stem cell research continue to be funded by the Feds, hoping to pressure the judge to see it their way.

While President Bush stood firm, the issue of stem cell research appeared to be a political winner for Democrats and to pit the claims of science against strict ethical guidelines.

They have come to realize that the campaigns against saturated fats and the tropical oils have been largely a political campaign, not a scientific one, and that American research has favored the newer vegetable oils produced since WWII with expeller - pressed technology that favors the hugely subsidized crops of soybeans and corn.

In his response, President Akufo - Addo stressed that what was needed was «strong, well - documented, well - researched evidence,» adding that the fight against corruption is a fight against crime and not a fight with political opponents.

They and other researchers have used game theory to study how to carry out and defend against cyberattacks, but the new research takes a broader approach by also factoring in the attacker's and victim's political strengths and weaknesses and how much they know about each other.

«A strong caution against attaching too much weight to polls of public opinion, particularly concerning political issues, has been expressed by Leo Bogart, president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

The silver lining, he added, is that the scientific community is getting better at building the infrastructure necessary to make research resilient against political interference.

According to MEP Herbert Reul, chair of the parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy: «This was not a political decision against ITER and I am convinced that the ITER project still has the support of a majority of members.

«For some reason, the majority seems to have a political vendetta against these important fields of research,» she asserted.

The story of development of vaccines against rubella and other childhood diseases in the 1960s pits a daring young biologist against his world - famous boss, testing that used prisoners, intellectually disabled children, and other disenfranchised subjects, political roadblocks that nearly derailed the research, and other elements of high drama.

NIAID global research helps to protect the United States against infectious disease threats and to improve the health of millions of people around the world, promoting international economic and political stability.

As part of BIOACID, Ekardt's Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy assessed political instruments against ocean acidification and climate change such as the different treaties of international law, the Paris Agreement or regulations for marine conservation as well as human rights.

Also the book Dirty Medicine by Martin J Walker contains some critique of Herberts research methods and his political actions against the alternative health movement.

Our latest research compares overall interest in dating against established measures and events like economic factors, key political moments, and popular.

One hopes that this new age of scientifically based research will enable the Department of Education to construct reviews of grant proposals based on well - established canons of science or social science as a safeguard against political demands by powerful legislators on behalf of their pork - hungry constituents.

Charter school policy discussions often devolve into political battles that pit advocates armed with competing research studies against one another in arguments over academic impact.

Writing a political science thesis is not very difficult for many students, because even though like all other theses it involves extensive research, political science topics are relatively easy and there is a lot of room for argument for and against a particular topic, so in many cases writing such thesis comes down to simply finding solid arguments and proving your point of view.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

Those who are using him as an example of scientific consensus holding back scientific research are wrong and quite often represent the modern equivalent of the political and theological powers against which Galileo so indomitably fought.

Prior to the pivotal 2006 intervention by Paul Crutzen (22), which «opened the floodgates» (15), there prevailed a near - unanimous taboo against geoengineering research precisely because of anxieties about the political uses to which it could be put.

Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science notes that this is a serious allegation against Professor Myneni and his co-authors.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Realising that you find any «scientist» who dares to do anything at all political to be repugnant, I am sure that you will be shocked to the core and deeply disappointed to know that Dessler (he of the superquick paper guarding orthodoxy against the barbarian hordes) counts «climate change policy» as a major part of his research interests.

Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science highlighted this as a serious allegation against Professor Myneni and his co-authors.

A RESEARCH paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon against global warming.

All useless rubbish that goes against every Principle in the IPCC Communication handbook and breaks every rule in the Marketing handbook of Common Sense and breaks every known fact in the scientific research finding of psychology, sociology, advertising, marketing, public communications, cognitive science and political science.

He was widely criticized for defending Bush policies on abstinence - only education and global warming, especially in his defense against an assertion by the National Academy of Sciences that political influence was contaminating the scientific research in government agencies.

Lawsuit against B.C. government alleges Liberals received «major» political donations from pharmaceutical companies, halted drug - safety research,