Sentences with phrase «established scientists about»

Not exact matches

Philosophy has to take notice of what is established by natural scientists but, equally, philosophy enables usto judge some of the things said by scientists, for example, about the nature of matter.

Secondly, Norman Cousins has recently proposed that some foundation establish a Commission on the World's Future made up of eminent scientists and humanists with moral vision who would devote themselves to thinking about the problem of survival and fulfillment in the future.

In a paper published in the journal Behavioral Sciences and the Law, scientists at the University of Colorado School Medicine note that, all too often, the «sensational media attention» surrounding CTE «divorce discussion of CTE from the well - established natural history and typically favorable prognosis of mTBI,» while, at the same time, such reports - and the scientific reports about CTE to which they are connected - imply direct connections between complex, multi-determined behaviors such as murder and / or suicide and mTBIs occurring in the remote past of individuals engaging in those behaviors.»

About five years ago, a team of Stanford University scientists set out to determine how the developing brain establishes its final set of synapses, connections through which cells of the nervous system communicate with one another and with nonneural cells.

Rather than build additional labs at its main research centre in Billingham, NE England, it established a group of about 10 scientists at Cambridge Science Park.

In the past, we've heard from a young scientist who became a single mother after a grad school divorce, and about Germany's efforts to establish funding programs to support single - parent scientists.

Several CEOSE committee members talked to MiSciNet about the report's findings and offered suggestions on how minority students may improve their chances of entering these fields and continuing on to establish rewarding careers as professional scientists.

One of the avowed aims of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS), the body that established the award (which is sponsored by Rhone - Poulenc), is to encourage British scientists to communicate about their work to a wide audience.

Ivermectin, the established drug which successfully treats the infection, is known to be effective against minor damage caused to the front of the eye by the worm, but until now scientists had very little clear evidence about the drug's role in preventing more serious effects of infection, in particular damage to the optic nerve.

This radical programme, which began in 1987, seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way in which science is taught in American schools, not by «top down» reform — restructuring the curriculum and then expecting teachers to adopt the new improved version wholesale — but by establishing partnerships between science teachers and professional scientists working in universities and industry.

A collaborative group including the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC), the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) Immunoguiding Program (CIP), and scientists at Stanford University launch the Minimal Information About T cell Assays (MIATA) Project, the first systematic effort to establish a framework for reporting immune monitoring data from T cell assays used in clinical trials, with the goal of fostering reliability of data to facilitate meaningful interpretation, comparison, and meta - analysis across clinical trials.

Before participating in the Lindau Meeting, I was not sure about the decision to stay in the science, being aware of all the obstacles that I should overcome in the future to establish myself as a scientist, and I was looking for some opportunities in industry, which is not an easy path either but a more or less stable field.

This unique research model was first established and proven in 1983 when the HDF brought together a multi-disciplinary group of about 100 international scientists, know now as «The Gene Hunters,» to discover the Huntington's disease gene.

So why would an education administration that claims to care only about the interests of kids decide to use a reading program, Month - by - Month Phonics, that does not meet the standard for effectiveness established by a broad consensus of scientists?

The author, a writer in the new field of Mind, Brain, and Education science, describes how scientists have divided learning concepts about the brain into four categories: (1) well - established information; (2) information that is «probably so;» (3) intelligent speculation; and (4) neuromyths.

This component of the leaked Walker memo was established to give longevity to the efforts to undermine climate scientists and policymakers concerned about the conclusions of climate research.

It's a divide that, maddeningly for scientists, has shown a paradoxical tendency to widen even as the basic facts about global warming have become more firmly established.

The idea of there being scientists on the one hand, opposed by irrational sceptics on the other has been established so concretely that few editors, peer - reviewers or journalists even bother to ask questions about the content of the consensus, much less about how it is contradicted by the substance of climate sceptics» arguments.

Thousands of scientists from around the world contribute voluntarily to the work of the IPCC, which was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide the world with a clear scientific assessment of the current scientific literature about climate change and its potential human and environmental impacts.

So we've now established that scientists use the word «theory» in a very specific way and this is different to its collquial use, can we agree that no «doublethink» is involved and that making posts without having any real understanding of what you are talking about is a spectacularly idiotic thing to do?

More than 2,000 economists and scientists recently called on «our nation's leaders to swiftly establish and implement policies to bring about deep reductions in heat - trapping emissions.»

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a prestigious journal, established in 1945 to warn the public about the consequences of using nuclear weapons.

Singer is the founder of the Heartland Institute's «Nongovernmental International Panel On Climate Change» (NIPCC), a collection of climate change deniers who have been criticized by many climate scientists for their attempts sow doubt and confusion about the firmly - established scientific findings of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

I have talked to established climate scientists who are afraid to say anything about their skepticism.

Based on well - established evidence, about 97 % of climate scientists have concluded that human - caused climate change is happening.

Not to diminish the work of those advocating truth in science observations and exposing any kind of industry distortion / misinformation about cigarette smoking, but the elemental goal in attempts to create any sort of parallel here is that it must be established that skeptic climate scientists knowingly lie about the issue as a direct result of being paid to do so.