Here is an overview of some of the stories that we followed on the blog of political science, science insider:
scientists welcomed with surprise and dismay a project to use DNA and isotope analysis of tissue from asylum seekers to evaluate their nationality and help decide who can enter the UK. "Appalling", "naive" and "flawed" are among the adjectives geneticists and isotope specialists have used to describe " Provenance pilot project Human ," quietly launched in mid-September by the Agency Their consensus borders UK the project is not scientifically valid -.. or even reasonable
is the "heavy-handed bullying" or simply a "misunderstanding between bureaucrats"? The suggestion that Minister of Science Canada threatened to punish one of the country's research funding councils to support a conference on the Palestinian state has revived the debate on story we reported this summer.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) faces another round of conservatives upset about the research on topics involving sexual behavior and drug abuse. Yesterday Joe Barton (R-TX) and Greg Walden (R-OR), minority members of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, wrote NIH to express their concerns about the peer review of a dozen subsidies that they believe "do not seem to be of the highest scientific rigor"
supporters of President Barack Obama " approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions scored two wins this week in the Senate :. in a battle on open ground and the other more clandestine way. both are in the debate the domestic-environment spending bill for next year.
China has made what appears to be its opening movement in trading execution until speaks of change International climate in November in Copenhagen. in an email conversation with Science insiders, climatologist Stephen Schneider of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and activist Keya Chatterjee of the worldwide Fund for nature is headquartered in Washington, DC, discuss scientific and policy issues facing the international community as developed and developing nations each weigh new commitments to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
for the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration has publicly admitted that politics has trumped science. The agency acknowledged yesterday that it approved a device to assist in surgery knee replacement - a scientific agency own device often failed - only after receiving pressure from a Democratic Congress members cohort New Jersey, where the device manufacturer is.
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