It's a focused and technical climate
science paper talking about a seasonal mechanism.
Not exact matches
Using their star power and connections, the foursome have pushed their ideas on conspicuous occasions, a number of which they created themselves: a session at the National Academy of Sciences» annual meeting that Varmus described as «heated;» a briefing by Krischner, Tilghman, and Varmus at the President's Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology; a meeting at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that «brought together some senior... influencers to
talk about the problem;» a new
paper about that meeting that will soon appear in PNAS; and a presentation by Kirschner at the Future of Research symposium organized by Boston - area postdocs in October.
You start to see how
science really works when you're in a big lab: You get to referee
papers your boss hasn't time to read, you are suddenly invited to give
talks instead of posters, and everyone has heard of your lab, even the Yanks.
They've presented their results at invited
talks, most recently the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, and in peer - reviewed
papers, including a recent Journal of Materials
Science article.
You can smell it if you
talk to any industrialist about the White
Paper on
science and technology being prepared by William Waldegrave, the
science minister.
Jennifer R. Grandis, a professor of otolaryngology and pharmacology and chemical biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a senior author of one of the
Science papers, bemoaned the dearth of genetic information about head and neck cancer several years ago at a conference where Garraway had given a
talk about the genomic landscape of melanoma.
I'm doing a clinical research, writing grants, writing
papers, and going down the academic route, but I care so much about the world that I'm also teaching the public, doing TED
Talks, creating a website, writing books, and giving the public the same tools that I'm researching and letting them know, «Here's the
science behind why I've designed it this way and why I'm doing the
science this way.»
That is why Campbell
talks about «protein deficiency» in his
papers, that is in the context of rats, but as he points out into his book «Whole: rethinking the
science of nutrition», rats are not human beings, and rats are not even mices, as there are already great differences of toxicity between rats and mices.
But is a
science paper the best place to «not» use scientific language, or maybe it's okay in
science papers to be scientific and then to have folks such as yourself,
talking to a non scientific audience, explain what it means using relatable percentages, such as the «roll of the dice» analogy (which really isn't that bad because it is relatable).
So, not to blow sunshine up anyone's kilt, but, basically, this is
science working as it should: 1) A crappy
paper gets though the peer review process and gets published 2) Its subject matter is of sufficient general interest that it attracts the attention of experts who actually know what they are
talking about.
The decision of the NCDC
Talking Points to ignore these
papers illustrates the state that NCDC is in with respect to Climate
Science.
Observer bias is serious indeed in
science, and the fact this is never
talked about in
papers is very telling.
There is a post by England, on the un-skeptical site Skeptical
Science where he
talks about that
paper and says:
The pre-release of this
paper follows the practice embraced by Dr. Richard Muller, of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project in a June 2011 interview with Scientific American's Michael Lemonick in «
Science Talk», said:
I think it's important to communicate to people what the
science is showing and that's why I'm
talking about this
paper.»
In contrast, when the media, politicians and many many academics
talk of «
science» they mean a group of people, almost entirely academics and the rules of this club is that you can only get in if submit to other members of the club and get them to sanction your membership (which comes by getting
papers and grants).
«I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate
science and climate system to be able to write scientific
papers and go to meetings and
talk about monsoon systems and
talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate
science issues.
It's a gut feeling but I like the idea of keeping hard
sciences and soft
sciences at a distance from one another in such a
talk /
paper.
However, the question asked by Brey is a very ambiguous one (which may be one of reasons the
paper was rejected from
Science), because the answer depends greatly on what timescale one is
talking about.
The ethics of
science that this
paper is
talking about is a different ethics than moral or cultural ethics.
I guess it was originally expected that «long term» meant over say the next 20,000 years (as Shackleton et al
talked about in their classic 1976
paper in
Science)... although some of the latest work predicts this interglacial period would (even in the absence of human interference) be expected to last longer, as I recall perhaps another 50,000 years.
Remember also we are
talking about a 1990
paper; anyone relying on a 20 - year - old
paper that has not stood up to subsequent follow - up studies is doing very poor
science.