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Speaking of Science
The Scientist | Jun 1, 2012 | 2 min read
June 2012's selection of notable quotes
Sound Science Policy Requires Better Data Management
Daryl Chubin | Sep 15, 1991 | 7 min read
AUTHOR: DARYL E. CHUBIN AND ELIZABETH M. ROBINSON, p.11 How can Congress ensure that the best science continues to be funded, and that a full portfolio of research is maintained? The answer, in large part, is to collect sufficient and relevant data on the research enterprise in the United States, and to see that it is circulated efficiently among decision makers. The information should include, at a minimum, details on how research moneys are spent, on the scientific work force, on the key ele
Speaking of Science
The Scientist | Jan 1, 2012 | 2 min read
January 2012's selection of notable quotes
mixing blue and pink smoke, symbolic of the muddled boundaries between sexes
Opinion: Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Agustín Fuentes | May 12, 2022 | 5 min read
Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish.
Opinion: The Politics of Science and Racism
Sadye Paez and Erich D. Jarvis | Aug 18, 2020 | 7 min read
Race has been used to segment humanity and, by extension, establish and enforce a hierarchy in science. Individual and institutional commitments to racial justice in the sciences must involve political activity.
Controversy Mounts Over Gene Patenting Policy
Scott Veggeberg | Apr 26, 1992 | 5 min read
Scientists in industry and academia foresee trouble as NIH persists in claiming ownership over partial sequences Date: April 27, 1992 The reviews from the scientific community remain mostly negative over the National Institutes of Health's patent application for a total of 2,722 partial human gene sequences. Academic researchers, who say they are mostly unaffected by the patenting process, nevertheless are appalled; and while some in the commercial sector of the biotech community now believe
Genome Project Ethics Office Is Achieving New Prominence In National Policy Debates
Franklin Hoke | Oct 2, 1994 | 8 min read
Sidebar:Active and Recently Completed NIH ELSI Research Projects With passage of time and increasing political relevance, HGP branch's influence is on the rise among decision-makers Beginning this year, the component of the United States human genome initiative that has been sponsoring studies of the ethical, legal, and social implications of the massive genome effort's ground-breaking research will be reporting the first hard resul
Genome Project Ethics Office Is Achieving New Prominence In National Policy Debates
Franklin Hoke | Oct 2, 1994 | 8 min read
Sidebar:Active and Recently Completed NIH ELSI Research Projects With passage of time and increasing political relevance, HGP branch's influence is on the rise among decision-makers Beginning this year, the component of the United States human genome initiative that has been sponsoring studies of the ethical, legal, and social implications of the massive genome effort's ground-breaking research will be reporting the first hard resul
Honesty Is The Best Policy: Scientific Naturalism Excludes God From Reality
Phillip Johnson | Apr 16, 1995 | 6 min read
The Jan. 9, 1995, issue of The Scientist featured two intriguing articles about the relationship between science and religion. Billy Goodman's story ("Religious Scientists Sense The Divine In Their Work," page 1) made the point that these apparently unusual people see no contradiction between their theistic religion and their science. (No one needs to be told that scientists who are atheists see no contradiction between their atheism and their science.) Although the subjects interviewed were di
Foresight
Karen Hopkin | Jul 1, 2011 | 9 min read
Studying the earliest events in visual development, Carla Shatz has learned the importance of looking at one’s data with open eyes—and an open mind.

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