Sentences with phrase «handful of scientists»

Only a tiny handful of scientists have provided research to demonstrate this claim, and serious flaws in their methods and maths continue to be raised.

Even the left - leaning media outlets would benefit from this as they also have a tendency to air the same handful of scientists.

Other than Post, only a handful of scientists are working on lab - grown meat; others believe the future lies in plant - based substitutes, ones so good they could fool even the most discerning palate, although Post maintains that we humans will always have an appetite for the real thing.

The biggest problem they face, says Herbert Levine, a professor of physics and co-director of the center, is that the handful of scientists working in this area are spread all over the world, each approaching common scientific questions from an isolated corner of a physics department.

It's time to flip the nightmare scenario and send a killer after the killer bacteria, say a handful of scientists with a new approach for fighting infection.

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of «Merchants of Doubt,» a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.

A handful of scientists aim to satisfy the world's growing appetite for steak without wrecking the planet.

A handful of scientists, though, are just curious.

Gregory, who directs Duke University's Bioinformatics Workshop, is now one of a handful of scientists scrambling to chase a genie that has already left the bottle.

A handful of scientists had known about the beetles» temperature threshold for some time — had studied it extensively, in fact.

A handful of scientists even speculate that genetically modified crops and the pesticides used to cultivate them may be partly responsible for the increased incidence of ills such as asthma, allergies, ADHD, and gastrointestinal disorders.

For a handful of scientists, the swine flu hitting the southern U.S. and Mexico bears an eerie resemblance to another outbreak more than 30 years ago.

But even without these tactics, American activists, including a handful of scientists, have been raising skepticism about GMO foods.

So it may seem odd that a handful of scientists are going to similar lengths to share not just their results but also, sometimes, their raw data — even their lab notebooks — often in real time.

Today, these warnings are no longer news, and journalists seek out the handful of scientists prepared to criticise the IPCC's message in order to grab the headlines.

Only a handful of scientists worldwide, for example, receive funds to study the amount and nature of virus in seminal fluid and vaginal secretions.

As wild as it may seem, future improvements to the accuracy of driving directions and emergency beacons could owe their existence in part to a handful of scientists who hoped to probe the murky depths of Jupiter.

Proposed in 2001, OIST started operations as a research institute in 2005 with a handful of scientists working in borrowed space, with Brenner serving as president and a board of governors stacked with scientific luminaries, including five Nobel laureates.

In searching for the speaker, you'll need to contact at least a handful of scientists in your area of interest, allowing you to network with each one as you search for your speaker.

«Breakthrough scientific research doesn't come from just a handful of scientists who have already made a name for themselves, but from collaborations between many researchers,» Eva Amsen writes on the developmental biology blog The Node.

A handful of scientists who understand the hidden dangers of the Himalayas have taken the lead in arguing for realistic, undisguised assessments aimed at protecting the region's population, though only with limited success.

It outlines the past half billion years of Australian history, and tells about the handful of scientists who have explored that past.

Some say it's the last holdout for a handful of scientists still not convinced that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

A handful of scientists aim to satisfy the world's growing appetite for hamburgers — and eventually steak — without wrecking the planet.

When it happens, you can thank a handful of scientists racing to cram ever more data storage bits into smaller spaces.

Data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) show that a handful of scientists seeking a research grant from its molecular and cellular biosciences (MCB) division submit two proposals in the same funding cycle.

But a handful of scientists have also been pressuring marine parks to release their cetaceans.

Erik Conway, co-author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, noted that there's even a word (which he did not coin) for manufacturing of fake knowledge — «agnogenesis.»

But over the past several decades, a handful of scientists like Palczewska have reported similar instances of seemingly superhuman vision.

Consider the oddball doctors who took tobacco money to deny a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, or the handful of scientists who take oil and coal money to discredit global warming science, or the people who have done both.

A handful of scientists struggle to prevent the destruction of a small town — and possibly the entire country — in this suspense drama.

«You can have thousands of school kids doing research in a way that accomplishes much more than a handful of scientists,» adds environmental history professor Andrew Kirk.

Drawing on up - to - the - minute scientific fact, Crichton's new novel is a breathtaking tale of suspense about a mechanical plague and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it.

Senior Curator Gilbert Vicario, and featuring essays by Vicario, along with Michelle White, associate curator, The Menil Collection, Houston; and Naomi Oreskes, science historian and author of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming» (2010).

A lead signatory is Chris Field of Stanford University, who is one of a handful of scientists in line for the chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change later this year.

Personally, I see Mr. Dyson (he never pursued a Ph.D) in a different camp, as one of a handful of scientists for whom ideological predispositions have no bearing on how they approach a technical question.

Dr. Post, one of a handful of scientists working in the field, said there was still much research to be done and that it would probably take 10 years or more before cultured meat was commercially viable.

The findings came from the Climate Accountability Institute, an entity led by Richard Heede, whose company, Climate Mitigation Services, advises companies, municipalities and others on how to cut greenhouse gases, and Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian and co-author of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.»

Who are these handful of scientists?

The aim of the report is to refute that only a handful of scientists — mostly in the pocket of oil companies — still dispute that global warming is happening, and that it's caused by human activities.

Photo For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway are the authors of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming», published by Bloomsbury (# 20)