Sentences with phrase «poor quality of science»

Founded in 1958 by a group of scientists concerned about the poor quality of science education in the public schools, the BSCS published a set of...

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At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

When it comes to science in the news, many scientists lament poor quality of news coverage of scientific studies.

For example, embryologist Jacques Cohen, scientific director at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas in Livingston, New Jersey, has developed a procedure called cytoplasmic transfer that shows promise for assisting women approaching their early forties who either can't get pregnant through in vitro fertilization or have embryos of such poor quality they don't survive.

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have shown that torrefied biomass can improve the quality of poor soil found in arid regions.

Family and social problems, lack of community support, poor access to quality education, relocation from their communities, and a shortage of science and technology role models are just some of the problems that youth living on reserves have to deal with, says Mervin Dewasha, founder, president, and treasurer of CASEA.

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

In fact, science has recently proven that dogs have evolved to be able to digest grains; however, many of the grains that go into pet foods are poorer quality as compared to those that humans eat.

So my interest in the science of climate change is fundamentally a practical one: I want to keep poor quality science from being used to justify public policies which I believe are both counterproductive and immoral.

While I still hold our universities in high regard, I can too easily see the poor quality of both the science and the professionalism, highlighted by Steve, will inevitably have a degrading effect.

The wegman report really did not comment at all on the conclusions of Mann just the poor quality of proxy data and the decptive practices used to communicate climate science.

They all genuinely believe what they are saying, they believe in the quality of their work, and they genuinely believe that some criticisms of their work is just poor quality science.

The quality of most of the «expert» testimony was quite poor, and as mentioned above, will result in numerous Skeptical Science blog post responses.

Anecdotally sleep complaints are increasing due to increasing stressful and busy lives, which is worrying as the science confirms that poor sleep quality over long periods of time can be extremely damaging.