But even if the gathering does not live up to its full potential, we encourage heads of state and governments to test approaches to drugs that are based in scientific evidence and local realities.
Deciding who is entitled to the oil riches below disputed Arctic waters is expected to take years, and it will be based in part on complicated scientific findings about where various countries' continental shelves end.
Three were based in former closed scientific cities.
Boston Scientific is based in Natick, Mass.
The theory is based in part on the general scientific belief that H.I.V.-1 derives from a simian virus in chimpanzees.
Boston Scientific, which is based in Natick, Mass., announced last month that Mr. Elliott would succeed James R. Tobin, who had led the company for about 10 years.
You would never know, from reading Pinker, that Nazi "scientific racism" was based in theories whose intellectual pedigree goes back to Enlightenment thinkers such as the prominent Victorian psychologist and eugenicist Francis Galton.
The atomic theory of matter, a transcendental scientific breakthrough, was based in large part on insights gained from classification.
"They have to say something about a worthless database," huffed William A. Haseltine, chief executive of Human Genome Sciences, which, like Celera, is based in Rockville, Md. Indeed, some of the scientific papers appearing in the journals Nature and Science this week appear to contain some truth serum for Celera as well.
In 2012, legislation (e.g., HB 368/SB 893) was enacted in Tennessee that allows alternative concepts, none of which are based in testable science, to be taught alongside scientific theories, such as evolution and climate change, in public school classrooms.
