The 46-year-old professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in New Jersey is notable for her work using the Cairo Geniza texts to draw new conclusions about Jewish life in the medieval Middle East.
"It upsets everyone," Professor Moore said of the new conclusions.
Yet the state judicial system and oversight panels did not accept those new conclusions.
Dr. Ralph P. Harvey, a geologist who has studied the meteorite, said the new conclusions were hasty.
The committee's chairman, Dr. Harold S. Sox Jr., said he felt that its review did not "move the needle" toward any new conclusions on sarin or the vaccines.
For at least one heterogeneous audience, here in one of the most closely contested battleground states of the campaign, the final presidential debate of 2000 was more about reinforcing political views previously reached than about arriving at new conclusions.
"We would love to come up with remarkable new conclusions," Dr. Shine said, "but after careful analysis, if the data isn't there, we can't draw any conclusions from it".
Several independent experts agreed with the new conclusions, saying they meshed both with more localized studies of trends in Antarctica and with evidence from warm spells before the last ice age.
Among the reports new conclusions on health: "An increased frequency and severity of heat waves is expected, leading to more illness and death, particularly among the young, elderly, frail, and poor".
Among the report's new conclusions on health: "An increased frequency and severity of heat waves is expected, leading to more illness and death, particularly among the young, elderly, frail and poor".
It may not be enough to draw new conclusions, but it can lend nuance to assumptions, expanding, for instance, ideas about who engages in casual sex or how it makes them feel.
