"The Second Sex" was reviewed, with great admiration, in the Sunday Times by one of the most prestigious social scientists in the country, Clyde Kluckhohn; it was named one of the year's best books by the paper's chief critic, Orville Prescott (no iconoclast); and it spent five weeks on the best-seller list, almost as long as "The Feminine Mystique" did ten years later.
There was more reassuring news when Hungary's most prestigious organisation of scientists and researchers said that tests of the red sludge showed no dangerous levels of heavy metals.
Solomon shows that hundreds of the most prestigious and knowledgeable scientists in the field, from paramount physicist Freeman Dyson to venerable climatologist Reid Bryson, are debunking the climate catastrophists.
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, said that the InterAcademy Council, a consortium of the world's most prestigious scientific societies, would name scientists to take a thorough look at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
This week the new winners of the most prestigious U.S. government prize for young scientists were honored at the White House, although they had to cool their heels as President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged some harsh words.
WASHINGTON In town this week to receive their awards, the winners of the most prestigious U.S. government prize for young scientists had some advice for anyone hoping to follow in their footsteps: Publish early and often, be prepared to "do it all yourself," and hope for a bit of luck.
Bruce Chassy and I decided to write this open letter and critique of Hirshberg's views with the hope of prompting a genuine dialogue with Gary, based on the most robust independent science by the best scientists at the world's most prestigious science organizations.
As noted above, however, the articles upon which the U.S. EPA placed primary reliance are published, in a few cases, by academic scientists sponsored by industry (e.g., Mundt et al. 2000), but for the most part by scientists affiliated with some of the most prestigious government-supported organizations engaged in cancer research (e.g., NCI, IARC, NIOSH).
The deputy director at one of our most prestigious national laboratories told me two years ago that all of his top scientists would retire by 2012 and that he could not find qualified candidates to replace them.
Recent scandals like Hwang Woo-Suk's fake stem-cell lines [1] or Jan Hendrik Schön's duplicated graphs [2] showed how easy it can be for a scientist to publish fabricated data in the most prestigious journals, and how this can cause a waste of financial and human resources and might pose a risk to human health.
