Sentences with phrase «officials against science»

The actions of elected officials against science and the public interest is a disturbing, but increasingly common theme.

Not exact matches

Dr. Pradeep Haldar, a former interim dean and current tenured professor at the Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has filed a lawsuit in state court against the school, SUNY Research Foundation, and certain officials at the institutions, alleging he was wrongly barred from leading sponsored research projects after an internal investigation sharply criticized his stewardship of two distinct awards.

Labour MEPs opposed an increase in the budget because of continuing waste on the common agricultural policy, and were campaigning on violence against women, assistance for disabled people, allegations of corruption against EU officials in Kosovo, commitment to science and, with Steve Rotheram MP, on tyre safety.

A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Evans Aggrey Darko, has cautioned that possible impeachment proceedings against some top officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) must not compromise the Commission's mandate.

Officials at the Quebec Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation did not directly say if the province is considering retaliatory measures against New York State.

The decision goes against a recommendation from the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), which the US government has adopted as its official position.

Data from 160,000 ranked chess players and more than 5 million chess matches suggest that women playing against men perform better than expected based on their official chess ratings, according to new findings published in Psychological Science.

«We were pretty convinced that we were going to find that business did have an advantage, but, when going head - to - head against these citizen groups, government officials and other groups that represent occupational interests, business has no inherent advantage,» said Marie Hojnacki, associate professor of political science, Penn State.

Meanwhile, politicians, whilst in main subscribing the science, found it too difficult to fight against, on the one hand, the official opposition of the carbon industries, and on the other this opposition from ostensibly independent public opinion.

Specifically, once empowered and participatory, are science organizations and government officials prepared to accept and implement public preferences that cut against the interests of science?

That is, although I firmly believe that AGW is ocurring, I do not believe that (some segments of) the climate science community have done themselves any favors by appearing to conspire against dissenting views, by soemtimes producing poor science and by poor selection of sources in official reports.

And yet, 400 years later, here we are: watching a public official tasked with guiding the educational trajectories of his community's children rail against the accepted science on climate change — because its conclusions threaten to undermine the local political culture.

Officials at George Mason University confirmed Thursday that they are investigating plagiarism and misconduct charges made against a noted climate science critic.

Don't the authors know about the lawsuit threatened against NIWA the New Zealand official agency by the Climate Science Coalition (CSC) for false lowering of the early record to create a greater warming slope in the New Zealand records.

Environmental justice advocates say that the attacks on science represent irresponsible political malpractice against the people of the U.S. by officials who are sworn to uphold the public interest.

Has become a story of citizen journalism gone awry, for the blogosphere is littered with amateur writers who have been duped into fighting against global warming by slick websites with official - sounding names like the Science and Public Policy Institute and the Friends of Science.