• Changes may be afoot for biomedical
scientists as a result of efforts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve the reproducibility of preclinical research.
Not exact matches
«Our
results indicate that a wide range
of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades
as a
result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global
efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the
scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
A pair
of scientists has launched an
effort to seek Myriad testing
results from patients and providers
as a substitute.
Barring that expensive and time - consuming
effort, there are mathematical tests that
scientists can perform to determine if the
results from a set
of studies might be the
result of questionable research practices such
as publication bias or P - hacking — mining data to uncover significant differences.
Today a new set
of fundamental holdings
of land surface air temperature records stretching back deep into the 19th Century has been released
as a
result of several years
of effort by a multinational group
of scientists.
Yet because
of the political climate, especially in the US, many
scientists feel obligated to respond, which
results in,
as you mention, a great deal
of wasted
effort that could better be spent elsewhere.
To test the theory that seasonal forecasts SSTs would perform
as well
as observed SSTs and
result in very similar attribution statements,
scientists from the CPDN team compared weather@home in forecast mode (forced with seasonal forecast SSTs) relative to hindcast mode (forced with observed SSTs)
as part
of a model validation
effort.
That finding struck Smith, a Republican from Texas who maintains that human - caused emissions
of greenhouse gases are not causing global warming,
as suspicious, and he began a dogged
effort to determine if the
scientists had manipulated data to arrive at politically - motivated
results.
This approach has been challenged by other political
scientists, such
as Colebatch [104], who see better policy outcomes
resulting from the collaborative
efforts of both government and non-government players.