In a series of reports for the United Nations, the first of which was published in 2002, a panel of Arab intellectuals concluded that the Middle East's development was severely impeded by both a "freedom deficit" and a "knowledge deficit".
In a series of reports for the United Nations, the first of which was published in 2002, a panel of Arab intellectuals concluded that the Middle East's development was severely impeded by both a "freedom deficit" and a "knowledge deficit". In many Arab countries, the report pointed out, adult literacy rates barely topped fifty per cent, and virtually no scientific patents were being registered.
At a seminar in Kuwait on genetics and genetic engineering in October 1998, a group of Muslim intellectuals concluded that although there are fears about the possibility of the harmful effects of GM food technology and GM food products on human beings and the environment, there are no laws within Islam which stop the genetic modification of food crops and animals [ 35].
Trade secret theft — most from China — costs the U.S. economy $225 billion to $600 billion annually, a blue-ribbon commission on intellectual property concluded last year.
A systematic review of studies conducted in the United States on people with various disabilities (including mental illnesses, sensory impairments, and physical or intellectual disabilities) concluded that supported employment is more cost-effective than sheltered workshops in the long term, and returns a net benefit to the taxpayers (Cimera, 2012).
But with the end of the cold war and with leadership changes in the house of labor, unions and left-of-center intellectuals have concluded that they might have a lot in common after all.
George Orwell, more equivocal, conceded that Hayek "is probably right" about the "totalitarian-minded" nature of intellectuals but concluded that he "does not see, or will not admit, that a return to 'free' competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse... than that of the state".
"Rather than being seen by students as pointless and frustrating hoops that have to be jumped through, introductory physics labs can instead offer rewarding intellectual experiences," conclude Holmes and Wieman.
These fears proved unfounded as the book picked up both the Guardian fiction and the Whitbread prizes and shifted enough copies to edge on to the bestseller lists: "This is a coldly brilliant, immensely satisfying intellectual mystery tale," concluded John Walsh in the Evening Standard.
In his piece on the UK's public intellectuals, John Naughton concludes that "the British aversion to the I-word seems to be at odds with the facts.
