Sentences with phrase «controversial research areas»

The case highlights the care that scientists must take both when working with human subjects and in controversial research areas.

Not exact matches

Cloning is one of the most controversial areas of scientific research of recent times.

Such naivety is often exploited to slow down the scientific process, he added, especially in controversial areas like climate research.

«This is an interesting study that touches on an area that has been controversial for decades,» says Trowell, a biochemist who is developing analytical devices for the detection of odors at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency, based in Canberra.

The controversial move involved several hundred layoffs and a significant reallocation of funds to other research areas.

These are the areas where aluminum exposure gets controversial and there is quite a bit of evidence supporting its possible link to these conditions, though more research is definitely needed.

This area of research is still controversial, however, and the findings have not been consistent.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

«Indeed controversial» is academic language; but to politicians, this sounds like «praising with faint damnation» — a politician is apt to assume «is indeed controversial» means «is a hot research area» rather than «was asserted in one paper that used at best controversial methods to reach its claimed conclusion» — eh?

2.10.2 Intellectual freedom includes: (a) the rights of all Staff to express opinions about the operation of the University and higher education policy more generally; (b) the rights of Staff to pursue critical open enquiry and to discuss freely, teach, assess, develop curricula, publish and research within the limits of their professional competence and professional standards; (c) the right to participate in public debates and express opinions about issues and ideas related to their discipline area; (d) the right of all Staff to participate in professional and representative bodies and to engage in community service without fear of harassment, intimidation or unfair treatment; and (e) the right to express unpopular or controversial views, although this does not mean the right to vilify, harass or intimidate.

In less politically charged areas of science, such opinions are (usually) gently tolerated, but since those opinions have been widely help up in the media as evidence of «the controversial nature of climate science», their multiple fallacies and inconsistencies need to be pointed out (which is a real waste of time for the rest of the climate research community).