Not exact matches
The
interests of scientists and the theoretical and technological consequences of
scientific research have been such that, on the whole, science has become a
major contributor to and servant of the traditional conception of power.
Besides reporting the latest research, we also try to find
interesting scientific or technological angles on
major news events.
For anyone
interested in evolution — which is to say, for anyone
interested in the
scientific understanding of the world — 2009 marks two
major, linked anniversaries.
He has published in
major scientific journals such as Nature as well as countless general -
interest publications.
These processes have a
major influence on the climate and are therefore of special
scientific interest.
The journal provides an international forum for archaeologists and scientists from widely different
scientific backgrounds who share a common
interest in developing and applying
scientific methods to inform
major debates through improving the quality and reliability of
scientific information derived from archaeological research.
Specifically, I got deeply
interested in two fields that would mark the rest of my
scientific career until today: symbiosis research and the study of the
major transitions in evolution.
The Fred Singers of the world are the ones who brought the polarization, and who would have brought polarization regardless of the
scientific approach: see, eg, cigarette smoking, DDT, and every other health or environmental issue opposed by
major corporate
interests.
Your question is worth responding to because it highlights two
major problems in the public climate discourse: (1) lack of
scientific knowledge and (2) the disinformation campaign by
interest groups.
It will be a very
interesting day when a
major news reporting service publishes a series of stories detailing the fraud, proving the deception and debunking the lies perpetrated by hundreds of people globally who have pushed for various carbon taxes and trading credit markets (mostly for their own enrichment), based on the various questionable and outright wrong «
scientific» studies which «proved» something was happening when it actually wasn't.
And yet, with the sole exception of CBS» «Face the Nation,» all of the
major networks got tripped up by the false balance trap: in the
interest of showing «both sides» of the climate debate, they gave a platform to people who «feel,» against all
scientific evidence, that man - made climate change isn't real, thus feeding into the fallacy that it's something that can be debated at all.
Anyone
interested in the
scientific method would have stepped back by now, and admitted that there is a
major problem with their CO2 / AGW conjecture.