Sentences with phrase «controversial study»

Forty years ago, a highly controversial study warned that we had to curb growth or risk global meltdown.

When politicians want to cut funding, he notes, they focus on specific controversial studies or areas — such as climate change, stem cells or genetically modified organisms.

China's Electric Vehicles and Its Dirty Coal University of Tennessee assistant professor of environmental engineering Chris Cherry talks with EV World about controversial study of electric vehicles and their potential health impact in China.

Today, a highly controversial study in which researchers synthesized a smallpox relative from scratch is finally seeing the light of day.

Two investigators whose controversial studies on deadly avian influenza viruses are among 11 on hold welcomed the end of the pause.

Philip Zimbardo describes the classic and controversial study suggesting how ordinary, decent people can commit heinous acts.

Some of them post their feelings online — on Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and any other site they can Men who watch soft - core porn are more likely to have a negative view of women, controversial study claims.

Piecyk's controversial study found that Verizon Wireless» new 4G LTE network handily >>

I suppose the Chick - Fil - A controversy has displaced sociologist Mark Regnerus's controversial study as the battlefront of the gay marriage wars over the last few weeks, but the Regnerus study is worth revisiting here.

Controversial Study Says Microwaving Tea Might Be Healthiest Way To Brew It.

Controversial study shows how hard it is for science to crack one of nature's slipperiest mysteries

A while back, we reported on the difficulties and career damage that can befall academic researchers who undertake controversial studies.

Rachel Bernstein, 06 November A controversial study argues that women who pursue math - intensive academic careers are just as likely to succeed as men.

«Will young scientists shy away from controversial studies if they fear their work will constantly be under attack?»

The technology is impressive, but last March two controversial studies questioned whether it produces healthy infants.

University announces prestigious panel to review controversial study, but worry about conflict of interest remains

Researchers are lifting a year - long voluntary moratorium on controversial studies involving the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

Highly controversial study places birthplace of hominin line outside of Africa, contrary to long held, popular thinking.

Controversial study of evolutionary relationships could «rewrite textbooks, redesign museum exhibits»

A highly controversial study in which researchers synthesized the horsepox virus from scratch was finally published in PLOS ONE on 19 January.

contractor Dietz Development made news when it filed a $ 750,000 Internet defamation lawsuit against its former customer, Jane Perez, for Men who watch soft - core porn are more likely to have a negative view of women, controversial study claims.

Also discussed is The Wall Street Journal, Low - Salt Diets May Pose Health Risks, Study Finds Findings Are Latest Challenge to Benefits of Aggressively Low Sodium Targets (if the link doesn't work just Google the title), and this Reuters article, Controversial studies say lowest sodium intake may pose risks.

Experiments show they can replicate themselves, and controversial studies show they contain rudimentary genetic material.

Two groups of scientists who carried out highly controversial studies with the avian influenza virus H5N1 have reluctantly agreed to strike certain details from manuscripts describing their work after having been asked to do so by a U.S. biosecurity council.

A controversial study on naloxone, for example, demonstrated the drug could have adverse effects without other measures in place.

Meanwhile, debates were held on the Environment and Industrial Relations as the WA government released a controversial study.

Even in Silicon Valley, experiments regarding the adoption of a universal basic income have been hotly debated — and incubator Y Combinator has embarked on a controversial study of such a move.

Gary Kleck, a criminologist now retired from Florida State University, was likely astonished to learn that his controversial study, The National Self - Defense Survey, was accurate after all.

Regnerus (the same sociologist behind a controversial study of how children of same - sex couples fare) says cheap sex — sex with little cost as far as time or emotional investment — is behind a host of societal ills, from fewer people marrying to the rise of unmarriageable men to more people living together to more children being born outside of marriage — you get the idea.

An article appeared in the Daily Mirror today, reporting on a controversial study from Canada.

The grassroots survey, which is not sanctioned by a government agency, was announced Tuesday at the New York state Capitol, where Health Department officials in June released the results of a controversial study they said found no evidence of increased cancer rates in Hoosick Falls.

A controversial study infects people with schistosomiasis to speed up drug and vaccine development.

FLAGGED A certain pattern of chemical tags on DNA shows up more often in gay men than in straight men, a controversial study in twins suggests.

In the controversial studies, Förster investigated how «priming» by subtle cues — such as a smell or hearing a poem — can change a person's cognitive response.

4 Phosphorus is a key component of DNA, but late last year a team of NASA scientists published a controversial study reporting that they had found a bacterium that could use arsenic instead.

A controversial study on twins claims to provide evidence that the genes we inherit have a bigger impact on exam success than schooling and parenting.

Perhaps the light at the end of the tunnel is that the debate has sparked conversation about how to handle such controversial studies.

► «A controversial study that showed genetically engineered golden rice could alleviate vitamin A deficiency in children was retracted» because of concerns about whether the authors behaved ethically in their work with the children in China who participated in the nutritional trial, Erik Stokstad wrote at ScienceInsider last Friday.

HERE FIRST An unidentified Homo species pounded apart mastodon bones with large stones in southern California around 130,700 years ago, a controversial study concludes.

Since a controversial study in the 1990s reported that linemen have triple the risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared with other players, researchers have paid particular attention to the health consequences of playing football.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

UT has been clobbered with a tough outside review, made public yesterday by Provost Steven Leslie, of blunders in a controversial study on the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, known as «fracking.»

A controversial study of hydraulic fracking will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts.

In 2009 a controversial study published in Science made an extraordinary claim: Chronic fatigue syndrome, whose cause had long been unknown, could be linked to a retrovirus that first arose in mice.

A controversial study revealing how H5N1 can mutate into a pandemic threat has been published after much delay.

The United States government has formally accepted a recommendation from a biosecurity advisory board to publish two controversial studies of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, moving the pair of papers another step closer to publication.