Previous social science research has focused on
the views of academic scientists and those working at elite universities while studies of religous views of science have focused primarily on the issue of evolution, said Ecklund.
Not exact matches
This article by MDI Biological Laboratory research
scientist James Godwin, Ph.D., was originally published in «The Conversation,» an independent source
of news and
views from the
academic and research community based in Australia, where Godwin was formerly a research fellow at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI).
This idealistic
view of the scientific process is however not matched in reality because, for
academic scientists, our publications count for much more than a simple contribution to the scientific record.
Surely if the prevailing
view of establishment / consensus
scientists is not to rock the boat, how will they answer the criticism that the reason society provides the tenure, the benefits is because it wants
academics to be defenders
of «the truth wherever it leads».
I know that one or two who write sceptically are employed by organisations that oppose AGW for economic or ideological reasons, but the rest
of us are simply retired
scientists,
academics or reasonably well - educated people who simply worry about what we see as heavy pressure to conform to a
view that in their opinion is not well argued, and whose consequences are potentially both expensive and useless.