It should be noted that delay discounting research often employs hypothetical rewards, and that past research has found no significant differences in using hypothetical versus actual rewards (e.g., Madden, Begotka, Raiff, & Kastern, 2003; Madden et al., 2004).
His group's SAFEChemicalPolicy.org website champions the safety and benefits of chemicals used in agriculture and elsewhere, and discounts research that indicates harm.
The DDT k value was normalized with a logarithmic transformation, as is typical in delay discounting research.
Still, Mr. Duffy does not discount the research.
Rohr, who has conducted several experiments involving atrazine, said that, at conferences, "I regularly get peppered with questions from Syngenta cronies trying to discount my research.
Most of their equipment was purchased from Radio Shack and not necessarily as sophisticated as the "discount paranormal research equipment" for sale on Ghost-Mart.com.
Despite enormous efforts to discount the research and data of climatologists, there is a vast body of evidence supporting the theory of climate change across many disciplines that study our planet: biology, physics, chemistry and ecology.
"There's a fear, and I don't think it's necessarily valid, but there's a real fear that evidence suggesting we're anatomically built for fighting could be used to justify bad behavior," Carrier said when asked about scientists who discount his research.
I now suspect they were too quick to discount my research.
He alleges that the agency's Emergency Operations Center EOCC) discounted his research in April and created "a public health threat" by relying on a less dependable human test for the Zika virus.
