Sentences with phrase «science policy officials»

While in Iran from 6 - 13 June, they spoke at elite universities and civic organizations and met with top government and science policy officials, scholars, and students.

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Regardless of whatever Hitler claimed his official belief system was, you have conceded that he did base his policies, very much, on science, reason, eugenics, and the theory of evolution.

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.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

We met a group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans returning to campus to study science and engineering (a feature that resulted in an official Army commendation for Alan Kotok, our managing editor), another group of faculty members who were the first in their families to graduate from college, and still another group who became science - policy fellows, combining politics and science.

Mauricio Horn, the visiting Secretariat of Scientific Technological Articulation adviser, spent a month at AAAS, learning about all aspects of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, attending its training sessions, meeting with federal officials who work with the fellows AAAS places in their agencies and attending events sponsored by former fellows who have organized special topic - specific groups.

Since joining Science in 2005 he has covered patent policy, science budgets, cabinet officials and the politicization of sScience in 2005 he has covered patent policy, science budgets, cabinet officials and the politicization of sscience budgets, cabinet officials and the politicization of sciencescience.

A reinvigorated science policy committee is working to engage scientists, government officials, and the community — and you can too

► This week's issue of Science also includes a brief recap of the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, attended by «more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others» on 30 April and 1 May in Washington, D.C. «The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme,» and «participants delved into the factors driving the tight budget environment» scientists are currently facing.

Subsequent articles will examine comments from postdoc office administrators, funding - agency representatives, and disciplinary - society officials; they will also discuss the potential for federal science - policy initiatives to enhance the postdoc experience.

The EPA's policy also says: «To operate an effective science and regulatory agency like the EPA, it is also essential that political or other officials not suppress or alter scientific findings.»

Among the policy prescriptions outlined are expanding the number of green cards available to science students — to discourage U.S. - educated scientists from returning to their home countries and contributing to their development — and ensuring that «top U.S. officials from all agencies» push China «toward becoming a self - innovating country.»

Ginger Pinholster, a spokesperson for Science, says that Alberts has discussed the proposed system with officials at NSABB, the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and others for several weeks, and that he is «very optimistic» that a plan can be agreed on «in a couple of weeks.»

But Fowler doubts that Projekt DEAL's approach will catch on: He notes that major U.S. research funders, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, have official policies that allow work to remain behind a paywall for a year after publication.

Requested by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the report draws on discussions at a two - day conference last spring that brought together scientists, officials from city and state governments, business leaders and representatives of federal agencies.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

Last January, White House science officials told NIH's parent, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to craft policies using the criteria for what officials now call «enhanced potential pandemic pathogens» (PPPs).

See, e.g., Jeffrey Mervis, An Invisible Hand Behind Plan To Realign U.S. Science Education, 341 Science 338, 339 - 40 (2013)(describing an RMO official as «a good example of how a career civil servant can help shape policy at the White House» and quoting an advocate saying «we should be glad that she uses her powers for good, and not evil»).

We welcome the mobilization of relevant institutions, networks and initiatives, to provide a synthesis of the current situation and proposals for actionable research, to assess and monitor disaster risks, to engage in communication efforts of such risk, to develop overall capacity in dealing with risk and to provide science advice to both policy makers and elected officials in order to develop resilience.

Director Steven Soderbergh's big - budget thriller about the global spread of a mysterious illness stumbles by focusing too much on public policy and science and to little on the human drama as civilians and government officials race to stop the deadly outbreak.

This science is more than half a century old; it is in any textbook; the I.P.C.C. even as an «official» log forcing function that is widely used in simple policy analysis models.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy spokesperson Kristin Scuderi said that officials were still reviewing the court order and could not comment on specifics.

«Right now, all of the decisions regarding climate - change policy are made by five people — in general, officials from the Ministry of External Relations and the Ministry of Science and Technology,» says Monzoni, who runs the Center for Sustainability Studies at Brazilian university Fundação Getulio Vargas.

In my view it was problematic from day one that CEQ officials, whose essential job was to advance the President's policy and political position on global climate change, were at the table participating directly in the governance of the Climate Change Science Program and shaping its communication of climate change research.

When the plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finishes its work late Thursday night and issues its report on the science basis of climate change to nearly 200 governments, it will essentially end the climate science portion of the debate for policy makers and government officials.

And so, when government officials with the power to enact climate change policies are on notice that respectable scientific evidence supports the conclusion that their constituents or governments are likely causing great harm, they may not appeal to their uninformed opinion on climate science as justification for not taking action.

Although ordinary individuals may have no duty to go beyond their own personal opinion about the science of climate change, government officials who have the power to enact policies that could present catastrophic harm to millions of people around the world may not as a matter of ethics justify their refusal to support policies to reduce the threat of climate change on the basis of their uninformed opinions on climate science.

Prior to joining IISD, he spent three years (2006 — 2008) with the Official Opposition Caucus in the Manitoba Legislature as a substantive policy researcher specializing in the portfolios of Science, Technology, Energy and Mines (including climate change) and Manitoba Hydro.

If scientists refuse to provide the data required to replicate their study then the study must be ignored by any official body seeking to set policy based on science.

Only after matters of science, technology, and policy are worked out can AWG - LCA kick the matter up to the ministers and elected officials who make up the UN's «high - level» negotiators.

When the plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finishes its work late Thursday night and issues its report on the science basis of climate change to nearly 200 governments, it will essentially end the climate - science portion of the debate for policy makers and government officials.

««Hell to pay» if Trump targets EPA climate science, says U.S. Chamber official,» Energy and Policy Institute.

Dr. Roger A. Pielke Jr., director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, said the partisanship seemed to be spreading beyond officials and interest groups.

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.

Not providing policy makers with this key information is really the most visible attempt by the AR5 lead authors to leave government officials with the impression that this science here is well understood, when a quick glance at the LOSU statement embedded deeply within the full report makes it clear that the science which promotes the AGW hypothesis is not well understood at all.

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presided over by Hong Nam - ki, minister of the Office for Government Policy coordination, and attended by officials from the ministries of justice, finance, and science and ICT, as well as from the Financial Services Commission, the Korea Communications Commission, the Fair Trade Commission and the National Tax Service.

While the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy released white papers on the ethical implications on AI under the previous administration, today's officials are currently cutting back on government - imposed regulation, providing more freedom to businesses in how they use technology.