Sentences with phrase «science pages of the newspaper»

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And worse, how few understand enough science not to feel an immediate defensiveness, wariness and hostility whenever the work of scientists reaches the front pages of the newspapers?

Suddenly Einstein went from the physics journals to the front pages of the world's newspapers and morphed into science's first modern media star.

If you missed this news, that may be because it received less play in the science sections of the world's newspapers than in those slender nether pages of items about burglars getting stuck in chimneys and drunken Russian men waking up with spikes in their heads.

So the story goes in Front Page Physics (Institute of Physics Publishing, pp 222, # 29.95), a collection of newspaper reports that announced memorable events in the physical sciences over the past century.

Whether it's The Indepen - dent, The Washington Post or The Australian, the obvious impact of the annual meeting is the week - long surge in the number of science stories — half - pages, even whole pages are devoted to science in newspapers where even genuine breakthroughs normally have to fight for space.

A frequent contributor to the op - ed pages of the nation's newspapers, Ackmann focuses on science, women's history, medicine, politics and sports.

ICE's plan called for placing these three scientists, along with fellow greenhouse skeptic S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virgina, in broadcast appearances, op - ed pages, and newspaper interviews.

It is important to remember that climate science is not a public debate carried out on the opinion pages of newspapers.

Climate change doubters in those years were taking a page from the fight against the regulation of tobacco products, urging newspapers and radio and television networks to provide «balance» in their reporting of the science.

The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The Washington Post all published climate science denial and other scientifically inaccurate statements about climate change on their opinion pages over the last year and a half, while The New York Times avoided doing so, according to a new Media Matters analysis of those four newspapers.

In their first study, the 1,116 participants looked at a fake newspaper page which, for most, included an ad by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

But the climate sceptics who inhabit the internet and dominate the editorial offices and opinion pages of The Australian newspaper are responsible for only the most obvious form of denial — repudiation of climate science.

These groups gladly accept Exxon's support, which enables them to keep churning out misleading reports, to flood newspaper op - ed pages with bizarre arguments against action to curb rampant carbon emissions, and to appear on right - wing TV and radio where they're invited by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to tick off blatant distortions of climate science without challenge by actual climate experts.

As a business columnist in the Globe and Mail in the 1990s, Corcoran was reported to run shrieking into the managing editor's office any time a (well - documented) science story crept into the pages of what was then the nation's only national newspaper.

The home page menus for the big newspapers offer you a collection of stories on politics, the economy, sports, style, arts, science, cars, weather, and sometimes education and health.