Through former National Science Foundation director and environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell, the scientists have found about
a dozen National Academies of Science members to co-sign the letter.
Not exact matches
He serves on the Advisory Council
of the
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS); is a member
of the
National Academy of Medicine's Forum on Drug R&D and Translation; an Advisor to the journal
Science Translational Medicine; and an Advisor to or Board member
of a
dozen companies or publicly - financed research organizations.
However, this ignores the many other studies with larger sample sizes on the subject, such as Oreskes 2004, Peiser 2006, Anderegg 2010, the statements
of dozens of scientific organizations including every
National Academy of Science with an official position.
Climate
science has been reviewed for decades, by the
national academies of dozens of countries, relevant professional societies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and many other entities with real domain expertise.
Today, more than two
dozen prominent scientists, including two former editors
of the New England Journal
of Medicine and a former editor
of the Journal
of the American Medical Association, sent a letter to editors
of Science, Proceedings
of the
National Academy of Sciences, and 200 other scientific journals, urging them to strengthen their policies concerning disclosure
of conflicts
of interest....
A conspiracy would have to be so powerful that it has co-opted the official positions
of dozens of scientific organizations, including the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences, the U.K.'s Royal Society, the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute
of Physics and the American Meteorological Society.
Drafted and reviewed by
dozens of scientists within and outside government and endorsed earlier this year by the independent
National Academy of Sciences, the report details findings drawn from a host
of studies that are as close to certainties as
science can produce.