But the U.S. Department of Energy decided the scientific reward was great enough to take the risk, and invested almost half a billion dollars for the LCLS project.
"I hope you, the reader, will discover that much of what is delivered to you in the form of books, media and the internet as decided truths, scientific or otherwise, are in fact open to question and revision".
One issue in particular that is bound to come up is authorship, so it's important that you know the ethics of how authorship should be decided and scientific authorship conventions and accountability.
As for allowing the field to speak for itself, in the Ngudjolo case, the ICC decided that scientific evidence is objective, "even if the expert was appointed by only one party or by the Court".
It is as though modern strategic planning decided to be scientific but then chopped off essential elements of science.
It was decided that the scientific objectives could be met using two 18-airgun arrays operating in alternating mode, and towed at a water depth of 7 meters.
At the 1925 Soviet party congress, it was decided that chess – scientific and logical chess – was to be promoted by the state as an ideological project to wean the people away from the superstitions of the Russian orthodox church.
In 2011, the secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius, overruled the Food and Drug Administration, which had decided, based on scientific evidence, that the pills would be safe and appropriate "for all females of child-bearing potential".
Assume that the value of φ is decided by the scientific data about tree-planting.
Others decided against using scientific information, instead focussing on addressing past or future losses regardless of their causes.
