Sentences with phrase «researchers are skeptical about»

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

Many of the juices used artificial sweeteners without any calories, but the researchers were skeptical about how great of an improvement that is for kids» drinks.

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So science budgets are cut and skeptical politicians grill researchers about the value of their work.

Luke Mahler, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, who studies evolution patterns in Anolislizards, is also skeptical about how broadly the researchers» results could apply even among the nearly 400 other lizard species within the Anolis genus.

As they continue their research, the scientists hope to find ways to better track volcanic - induced cooling and environmental pollution, though some researchers are quite skeptical about this technique:

Other researchers have been «a bit skeptical» about using lipids to deliver a gene to the lung because the approach isn't very efficient compared with viruses, says Richard Boucher of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Not many researchers in the metrology community were cognizant of the workings of mode - locked lasers, and those who did know about them were skeptical that such lasers could produce a well - defined comb spectrum in practice.

K.G. Duleep, managing director of consulting firm Energy & Environmental Analysis Inc. in Arlington, Virginia, and a researcher on a U.S. study on plug - ins and other advanced autos, said he is very skeptical about the lifespanof the batteries.

Researchers and many top preschool programs are focusing on one solution as a way of getting pre-K attendance up: Home visits at the beginning of the year, before kids start missing and before parents have a chance to feel skeptical about the school.

The e-mails, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views.