Sentences with phrase «attacks against scientists»

Donald Trump's presidency has climate scientists concerned about the implications for U.S. environmental policies, the worldwide effort to curb the impacts of climate change, and the ability of scientists to freely to continue their research, which can be insidiously undermined through funding cuts, gag orders, or punitive measures and retaliatory attacks against scientists who publicly discuss their research.

The American Chemical Society has reported extensively on attacks against scientists in Chemical and Engineering News.

Not exact matches

«FireEye has recently uncovered 11 iOS apps within the Hacking Team's arsenals that utilize Masque Attacks, marking the first instance of targeted iOS malware being used against non-jailbroken iOS devices,» wrote FireEye senior research scientist engineer Zhaofeng Chen on the company's findings.

Gardner lists five ways in which these paranoid tendencies manifest themselves: (1) the pseudo-scientist considers himself a genius and (2) regards his colleagues as ignorant blockheads; (3) he believes himself unjustly persecuted and discriminated against; (4) he focuses his attacks on the greatest scientists and the best - established theories; and (5) he often employs a complex jargon and in many cases coins words and phrases (neologisms) of his own.

On the contrary, as the Oxburgh panel's final report (pdf) put it, the attacks leveled against the scientists «showed a rather selective and uncharitable approach to information made available by the CRU.»

But on Facebook, where news of the lawsuit was initially posted Tuesday, Mann said the lawsuit was part of «a battle» to assist climate scientists in the fight against those who attack their work.

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES Scientists doing gene editing need to be aware of potential immune system attacks against a DNA - cutting protein.

Immunotherapy is an emerging field in the global fight against cancer, even though scientists and clinicians have been working for decades to find ways to help the body's immune system detect and attack cancerous cells.

The conservative Traditional Values Coalition is already running TV ads attacking four senators, including Nebraska's Bob Kerrey (D), for voting last October against an amendment that would have required scientists to document the source of fetal tissues.

In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.

American Geophysical Union adds legal counseling to its Fall Meeting agenda, citing scientists» need to defend against increasing attacks on research, correspondence and public statements

MIT cognitive scientist and philosopher, discussing the tradeoff between scientific and political life and the «vicious» attacks against Bertrand Russell:

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a way to safely use multiple programming languages within the same program, enabling programmers to use the language most appropriate for each function while guarding against code injection attacks, one of the most severe security threats in Web applications today.

On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks.

Scientists have made an important breakthrough in the fight against debilitating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis by revealing how to stop cells attacking healthy body tissue.

«We were able to use the microbe's own tools against them to attack and destroy the sugar molecules that hold the biofilm together,» says the study's co-principal investigator, Dr. Don Sheppard, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the MUHC and scientist from the Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program at the RI - MUHC.

The fungus which causes Chalara dieback of ash trees has the potential to defend itself against virus attacks, research by British scientists has shown.

The risk of legal attack on any individual scientist is small, but there are actions researchers can take to protect and defend themselves against politically - motivated attacks.

Scientists from the LoGrasso lab have been able to show in animal models that inhibiting a specific enzyme protects heart cells and surrounding tissue against serious damage from heart attacks.

But Deer's investigation - nominated in February 2011 for two British Press Awards - discovered that, while Wakefield held himself out to be a dispassionate scientist, two years before the Lancet paper was published - and before any of the 12 children were even referred to the hospital - he had been hired to attack MMR by a lawyer, Richard Barr: a jobbing solicitor in the small eastern English town of King's Lynn, who hoped to raise a speculative class action lawsuit against drug companies which manufactured the triple shot.

Despite multiple independent investigations, which demonstrated that allegations against scientists were false, the Heartland Institute continued to attack scientists based on the stolen emails.

Now, Israeli scientists have shown that the combination of pomegranate juice and dates along with their pits provide maximum protection against atherosclerosis (plaque buildup or hardening of the arteries), which can cause a heart attack or stroke.

Scientists should spent their time on science and not on defending themselves against attacks from politicians associated to the oil industry.

Jim: thanks so much for writing about the attacks against climate scientists so cogently and eloquently in «The Inquisition of Climate Science».

I am amazed that the same people who would not let me post my opinion about certain Dr. S., allow such a low level personal attacks against a fellow scientist who contributed so extensively to our understanding of the atmosphere.

There were legitimate debates between scientists working in this field about how reliable different kinds of proxy data are and what are the limits, what are the uncertainties, and then there were the dishonest attacks against the science.

Allowing such attacks to stand, and to allow politics and fear tactics to silence Dr Soon or any other scientist, or to censor scientific publications, would not only be a personal calumny against him: it would also be a blow against scientific freedom of expression the world over.

The U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing on Thursday to examine the recent string of politically - motivated attacks against climate scientists.

Mhyre has been very poorly mentored by climate «scientists» to commit illogical rhetorical attacks rather than upholding true science by exploring ALL models and testing them against ALL data.

Indeed, it was the Commonwealth Foundation attacks that essentially forced Penn State to launch its initial inquiry into the various allegations against me in December 2009 (similar inquiries and investigations of CRU scientists were initiated in the United Kingdom).

Kitcher says that the apparently harsh claims against Nierenberg, Seitz, and Singer are «justified through a powerful dissection of the ways in which prominent climate scientists, such as Roger Revelle and Ben Santer, were exploited or viciously attacked in the press».

As a result of his confrontation with Monckton, Mandia wanted to do something to defend other scientists against similar attacks, and help them understand their legal rights and responsibilities.

That said, I don't retract my main point which is that the Academy needs to take a much more vigorous line against the attacks on science and individual scientists which have become a pervasive feature of Australian political commentary.

He has spent much of his time as the chair of the House Science Committee going on the attack against climate scientists.

The phrase «working climate scientists» was used frequently as a put down, such as by Andrew Weaver in his public attacks against me.

Libertarians seem to have been against Churchill, and Libertarians also attack climate scientists.

Knowledge of the common techniques by which scientists are attacked, irrespective of their discipline and research area, is essential so that institutions can support their academics against attempts to thwart their academic freedom.

The group came together in response to increasing legal attacks on climate scientists and the immediate need to help defray the legal costs of an ideologically motivated lawsuit against the University of Virginia and atmospheric scientist Dr. Michael Mann.

It seems that only well established scientists can even contemplate raising their voices against that orthodoxy, but only at the risk of denigration and personal attacks.

You make unjustified and untrue ad homimem attacks on excellent scientists whose work provides doubt to AGW although their work has often been challenged but never faulted: e.g. you say «I have never argued against people like Lindzen and Christy and Spencer continuing to do their work and attempting to get it published in reputable peer - reviewed journals, even if their work does seem to become increasingly sloppy and desperate.»

Reacting in outrage and disgust against the personal attacks leveled against them, and contriving to present their results in ways that could not be misread, the scientists had used phrases that their attackers twisted to support the claim that climate science was nothing but a politicized sham.

UCS set the record straight in several recent instances of misinformation about climate science, and fought back against deliberate attacks on climate scientists, including:

Attorney General Cuccinelli's suit against the EPA cited RIA Novosti's English - language version of Kommersant's attack on British climate scientists.

In a series of blog posts published over ten days, McIntyre attacked climate scientist Professor Michael Mann in relation to a defamation suit the scientist brought against Canadian conservative commentator Mark Steyn and others.

Schneider also wanted scientists to fight back against attacks on science.

This attack appeals especially to conservatives who want to link their attack on climate scientists to their favorite attack against progressive presidential candidates — that they are flip - floppers.

Yes, it's true — skeptical, legitimate climate scientists like the ones who run this site have been very frustrated by the deliberately deceitful pseudoscience, outright lies — and most recently vicious personal attacks against them — that have been cranked out for the last couple of decades by fossil fuel industry - funded frauds and cranks and given unwarranted legitimacy by the mass media, and regurgitated ad nauseum on blogs everywhere by Ditto - Heads who unquestioningly believe whatever drivel is spoon - fed to them by the phony «conservative» media, and call themselves «skeptics» for doing so.

One effective (and under utilized) argument against this line of attack is to point out that no professional organization that has adopted a position statement on climate change has dissented from the consensus view of climate scientist.