Not exact matches
The role of the Royal Society in early
science, or of specialized
journals today, can be
pointed out.
Best
Point (nominated by Micah Odor): John Wilson at The Wall Street
Journal with «No One Reads the Bible Literally» «What is at stake in these disputes is not a choice between following biblical authority on the one hand or
science on the other, as the matter is often misleadingly framed.
Perhaps someone in the health /
sciences can submit a Letter to the
journal,
pointing out these issues with the analysis?
In her paper, Contextualizing online human milk sharing: Structural factors and lactation disparity among middle income women in the U.S for the
journal Social
Science & Medicine, Palmquist
points out that women involved in online milk - sharing are largely middle class.
That means there's little
point in pitching stories from major
journals such as Nature and
Science, or from press sites such as Newswise or EurekAlert!
reported in the
journal «
Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT,
point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenarios.
«The authors are correct to
point out that JIF should only be used as an aid to understand the impact of a
journal,» says James Pringle, Thomson Reuters» head of Industry Development and Innovation, IP &
Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
points out that many
journals already make full - text research articles freely available within 6 months or a year (the policy of
Science).
In a recent study published by
Point Blue Conservation
Science (
Point Blue) and Audubon California in the
journal Western Birds, scientists document the importance of irrigated agricultural crops in California's Central Valley to a conspicuous shorebird.
«Every single paper written about Weyl
points was theoretical, until now,» says Marin Soljačić, a professor of physics at MIT and the senior author of a paper published this week in the
journal Science confirming the detection.
At what
point did you begin to see this as a possible
Science paper (as opposed to one for a lower profile
journal)?
In the April 12 issue of the
journal Science, Lutz and co-author Paul Falkowski, a professor in Rutgers's departments of Geological Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences,
point out that the handful of samples taken thus far from the ocean's depths have introduced scientists to new strains of an anaerobic bacteria known as actinomycetes, which Lutz calls «fascinating organisms with profound medical possibilities.»
Their findings, published Dec. 11 in the
journal Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, may reveal the cause of some undiagnosed infertility problems and
point the way to new methods of birth control.
From the
point of view of Wellcome and other nonprofit groups that fund
science, academic
journals can be an expensive drain on time and money.
The findings, which appear in the
journal Sociological
Science,
point to a previously unexplored divide on the abortion issue: differences in perceptions of those we associate with.
Right before this shift, there may have been a warning sign that the planet was hitting a tipping
point into a warmer state, finds a new study published yesterday in the
journal Science.
In the January cover story of the Royal Society's online
journal, Open
Science, the researchers make the case that the association between striping and temperature likely
points to multiple benefits — including controlling zebras» body temperature and protecting them from diseases carried by biting flies.
A feature review, to be published on December 16th in the Cell Press
journal Trends in Plant
Science,
points the way to intensifying agriculture sustainably by fixing weaknesses that have sprung up quite by accident in the process of traditional crop breeding over the course of thousands of years.
Pinholster also
pointed out that the
journal's own press summary of the paper made no mention of the search for extraterrestrial life, nor did
Science «organize any additional promotional events.»
In a recent paper also appearing in the
journal Science we learn of a further ochre find, in this case from Blombas Cave, between Pinnacle
Point and Cape Town.
The most recent paper, «Ligand - Mediated Receptor Assembly as an End
Point for High - Throughput Chemical Toxicity Screening,» is published in the
journal Environmental
Science & Technology.
The work, reported in the June 11, 2009 issue of
Science Express, an advance, online publication of the
journal Science, might also be a starting
point on the way to exotic new materials that repair themselves or transform in response to their environment.
The starting
point for the studies was a detailed catalog of all kinases in the cell, similar to one published in December 2002 in the
journal Science.
«There has been an increasing number of studies that show how damaging UV rays can be,» says Dr. Engelman,
pointing to a 2015 Yale University study published in the
Journal of
Science showing skin damage caused by UV rays can continue for hours after you leave the sun.
About Blog The Health
Science Journal began as a shared vision for a free consumer health publication that
points readers to modern and traditional health resources.
At Prieto Math and
Science Academy, one of our partner schools in Chicago, teachers seek to improve their students» ability to give a viable argument and to critique the reasoning of others; their entry
point is teaching students to use
journals to record their own ideas and the ideas of others, and using the whiteboard strategically to support student
journal writing and classroom discussion.
A study to be published in the
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare
Science points to a substantial discrepancy between visual identifications of dogs by adoption agency personnel and the breeds identified in the same dogs through DNA analysis.
Before I dive into a few of the details from the study, I want to note that my comments about the study are based solely on the news article, as I've been unable to find an actual copy of the study online anywhere — so my opinions of it may change if I can ever get a full copy (which should be available at some
point since it has been accepted for publication in the
journal Applied Animal Behavior
Science).
About Blog The Health
Science Journal began as a shared vision for a free consumer health publication that
points readers to modern and traditional health resources.
RC press rebuttals should be syndicated in every news outlet out there, correct interpretations of climate
science is regularly mangled, to the
point where I get Arctic visitors, some journalists, who regularly quote bad
science from misleading news sources, newspaper stories are considered like
science journals, peer reviewed quoted news stories especially, namely that 10 year cooling German model forecast.
As Don Kennedy
pointed out last year, when these
journals fail to require authors to disclose their funding, «people are entitled to doubt the objectivity of the
science.»
The
journal Science has published a letter signed by 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel laureates, that pushes back sharply after months of assaults on evidence
pointing to a growing and disruptive human influence on the climate and some of the researchers who've done important work on global warming.
On last
point: I completely agree with Mike that you could do
science a service by getting journalists to pay more attention to our own professional
journals and not focus so exclusively on the high profile
journals, which often tend toward the sensational at the expense of solid advances.
As the
science blogger James Hrynyshyn put it last year (responding to a similar Wall Street
Journal piece), there's little merit in the argument that scientific disagreement (a normal part of the scientific process) undermines the basic findings
pointing to substantial risks from unabated emissions of greenhouse gases.
But contrary to the
Journal's claim that the EPA disavowed that finding because the agency had been «barraged by plaintiff attorneys and Hollywood celebrities,» it was actually changed after the EPA's scientific advisory board, which evaluates the agency's «use of
science,»
pointed out that the draft conclusion wasn't supported elsewhere in the report:
In 2004, as they correctly
point out, Harvard
science historian Naomi Oreskes published an essay in Science magazine in which she examined the abstracts of 928 articles on the subject of «global climate change» published in scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and «found that 75 % supported the view that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming over the previous 50 years while none directly dissented.
science historian Naomi Oreskes published an essay in
Science magazine in which she examined the abstracts of 928 articles on the subject of «global climate change» published in scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and «found that 75 % supported the view that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming over the previous 50 years while none directly dissented.
Science magazine in which she examined the abstracts of 928 articles on the subject of «global climate change» published in scientific
journals between 1993 and 2003, and «found that 75 % supported the view that human activities are responsible for most of the observed warming over the previous 50 years while none directly dissented.»
The NSF was supposed to fund pathbreaking
science, and officials looked for striking new results, new ideas that could be published in leading scientific
journals — not just that steady, relentless upward march of data
points, year after year after year.
Evidence in
science is gathered in research, by applying proper scientific methodology, published in peer reviewed specialist
journals of the field at some
point and put under scrutiny by the scientific community.
And I think it's fair to say that this proposition is well supported by the evidence — mike's
points noted — that there have been huge advances in
science through the
journal process.
When the loudest voices are fossil - fuel funded think tanks, when they don't publish in
journals but instead write error - laden op - eds in partisan venues, when they have to manipulate the data to support their
point, then what they're doing isn't
science.
Thereby helping you ignore
points such as the one just made above, about papers, so long as we're scouring sources, published in leading, vetted,
Science journals.
But let's see, vetted scientific
journal papers, they pretty much all support the central
points you will find therein, and the data comes from leading
science institutions and organizations, and those directly involved in the research, not some professor somewhere in Washington State who takes the data and simply changes it and then it is dispersed to about 50 million people through 10,000 channels and quasi new ideological sites, and 10m comments on the Internet in various forms as new «truth.»
A senior member of The Team got caught with his hand in the cookie jar — not about some trivial
point of attribution or «amour propre» — but actually gaming the pal - review system in the (once) most prestigious
journal of
science.
In 1996 I defined the turning
point of the discussion about climate
science (the
point where we could actually start talking about policy) as the date when the Wall Street
Journal would acknowledge the indisputable and apparent fact of anthropogenic climate change; the year in which it would simply be ridiculous to deny it.
Here are some examples: # 1) «A Parallel Nonnegative Tensor Factorization Algorithm for Mining Global Climate Data» http://www.springerlink.com/content/u4x12132j06r40h3/ (from LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer
Science) # 2) «Dowinscaling of precipitation for climate change scenarios: A support vector machine approach» http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/18799/ (
Journal Of Hydrology) # 3) «Semi-supervised learning with data calibration for long - term time series forecasting» http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1401911 (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Journal) There are tons that I can quoted, but the 3 references that I have linked to above clarifies my
point.
Mpainter, admittedly climate
science is not my day job and I don't claim to be publishing anything in a
journal, as Steven Mosher aptly
points out.
A more sober reality, though, is that whatever slight impact humans might have on the climate, it is too small to measure — a
point made in a study just published by Swiss researchers in the
journal Quaternary
Science Reviews (November 2005).
Last year Prof Duarte was lead author of a paper in the Royal Swedish Academy of
Science's
journal AMBIO warning that the Arctic was at risk of passing critical «tipping
points» that could lead to a cascading «domino effect once the summer sea ice is lost.»
The effect was to let the public be deluded about such things, by those who hoped that the public would rise up and demand politicial action, while the climate scientists could comfortably sit back, let the wild claims appear to be part of their famously «settled»
science, knowing that if the «predictions» failed, they could
point to their refereed
journal papers that made no such explicit claims, or at least none with claimed certainty, thus achieving sensational scare stories but with plausible deniability.
The main
point though is that newsweek is not a
science journal.