Meanwhile, Mr. Mbeki has appointed scientists to government panels who do not believe that H.I.V. causes AIDS.
However, the decisions by the DPC are usually made under advice from a commission of appointed scientists, called the "Grandi Rischi" (Large Risks) Commission, that sadly became famous for the legal trial that followed the L'Aquila earthquake, Central Italy, in April 2009 (e.g., Nosengo 2011; Cartlidge 2011; Bretton et al. 2015).
Rather than a pattern of women simply choosing to leave, research has revealed how academics (of both genders) hinder women's progress: in blind studies, CVs with female names were found to be ranked lower by appointing scientists than identical CVs with male names.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed 26 scientists to a new Scientific Advisory Board that will provide the global body advice on "science, technology and innovation … for sustainable development".
In 1973, she made her first trip to China, as a member of a group called American Women for International Understanding, and over the next few years she was appointed chief scientist for three saturation-diving projects involving a cylindrical underwater laboratory called Hydrolab, in the Bahamas, and participated in some early dives of Johnson Sea-Link submersibles.
The team was acquired by Uber in December to run Uber's AI labs, where his co-founder Zoubin Ghahramani has now been appointed chief scientist.
Elsevier yesterday announced that it has appointed biomedical scientist Mehar Manku as editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Hypotheses, whose penchant for publishing provocative papers has divided the science community.
Up until now, there has been no serious government or NHS advice or guidance about sleep, no multi-million pound campaigns - they haven't even appointed a scientist off the telly as a "Sleep Tsar".
Last month, he launched a new program to appoint young scientists as HHMI investigators for 6 years.
"This is due to disadvantage of the location and or delay in appointing senior scientists, and not due to funding," Shashidhara says.
EPA, however, could appoint industry scientists, who are paid to find ways to argue that there is too much uncertainty to regulate.
