Sentence examples for frivolous research from inspiring English sources

Swearing may seem a frivolous research topic for a psychologist to pursue.

Leading scientific organizations have announced plans for annual Golden Goose Awards to honor seemingly frivolous research that produced big dividends.

Leading scientific organizations have now announced plans for their own annual Golden Goose Award to honor seemingly frivolous research that produced big dividends.

But in 2014 Arvizu asked Zuber to design a bigger role for the board in response to criticism from Republican legislators that NSF was funding frivolous research.

Read the full story to learn how she plans to "educate Congress on how NSF does its business... in response to criticism from Republican legislators that NSF was funding frivolous research".    .

The legislation, being worked up by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), represents the latest and bluntest attack on NSF by congressional Republicans seeking to halt what they believe is frivolous and wasteful research being funded in the social sciences.

And this isn't just frivolous play -- research has shown that we learn better from those we know, so this kind of socializing is a very real benefit for online students.

"It debunks the notion of the frivolous lawsuit," Stephen Daniels, senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, a nonpartisan research group.

It's a perennial target for some legislators, who have argued that the research is frivolous or worse.

The debate has lost none of its vitriol since Smith became chairman of the science committee in early 2013 and immediately began to characterize some NSF-funded research as "frivolous and wasteful".

"It seemed rather frivolous," said Ms. Brown, whose own research focuses on Huntington's disease and the basal ganglia.