Could
you find other scientists in this field that also fully understand these implications but who could care less about what might happen to sea levels 1 - 200 years from now?
Not exact matches
Together, these universities
founded the Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network (PoLS - SRN) to help young
scientists in the
field meet each
other, share training strategies, and locate potential research collaborations that could help set the agenda for the
field in coming years.
Even as
scientists in other fields struggle to
find jobs, computational biologists are being snapped up as soon as they graduate with lucrative salary offers, says Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine and director of the biomedical informatics training program at Stanford University
in Palo Alto, California.
«Many
scientists in my
field now
find themselves at the receiving end of attacks by groups who abuse open records laws to saddle
scientists with vexatious and intimidating demands for personal emails and
other materials,» he said
in an email.
Harris cited
other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies
in the
field of psychology
in which the
findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by
scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the
findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which
found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than
other genes.
ViaCyte's
scientists and
other experts have published key
findings in the
field of stem cell engineering.
Elmegreen takes an active role
in scientific societies — groups of
scientists that share their
findings with each
other at meetings and who promote their
field of research to
others.
It is my hope that
other younger
scientists coming into this
field, who too may eventually
find themselves subject to politically - motivated attacks on their work, will read Romm's book (and perhaps mine too) and learn these lessons early
in their career, so that they don't
find themselves ambushed with little or no defense, down the road.
So real
scientists are engaged
in real skepticism, basically subjecting all
findings to appropriate scrutiny and critical analysis, and challenging
other scientists in the
field to either disprove what you've done or validate it independently.
I'm a
scientist in a non-climate
field and
found it a great overview and I'd recommend wholeheartedly it to
other technically - minded types.
There is wide agreement among
scientists that inadequate funds are going to basic research
in such
fields as capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks or the atmosphere, advancing photovoltaic cells and
other solar power systems,
finding ways to store large amounts of electricity from intermittent sources like wind or the sun, and making nuclear power more secure.
Unlike
other scientists in the global warming
field who have had to continually backtrack, sidestep and spin erroneous
findings when their models proved embarrassingly wrong, Abdussamatov's studies over the last decade have stayed on course,
in keeping with the actual temperature readings that ultimately provide a true measure of climate change.
«It would be irresponsible of us to go
find some
scientist somewhere who is not thought of as being eminent
in the
field and put him on television with these
other guys to cast doubt on what they're saying,» said Pelley.
However, developments
in some
other fields (e.g., biology and medicine) show that a staggering number of
findings could not be directly replicated when
scientists tried to reproduce them.