But official science often lacks humility: such unions are, indeed, generally infertile, but how often has evidence been sought?
David Cameron's official science advisers have called for GM crops to be rolled out across the UK by scrapping "dysfunctional" EU regulations that risk curtailing future food supplies.
Spain is set to get an official science advisory panel that will gather evidence on a range of technical and social issues for its lawmakers.
I am afraid that among the readers of these notes are some who may refuse to believe these assertions, since official science, permeated as it still is today with Aristotelianism, denies the possibility of a fertile union between different species.
The official, Science Minister Ilya I. Klebanov, told the Interfax news agency that a leak of hydrogen peroxide used to fuel the torpedo caused the disaster, which killed all 118 men aboard during a naval exercise on Aug. 12, 2000.
The Bourguignons worked for the French National Institute for Agricultural Research in the 1980s but went independent in 1990 out of concern that official science cared for Big Agriculture more than for small farmers.
Monckton then goes on to suggest that "it was I who – on the prime minister's behalf – kept a weather eye on the official science advisers to the government, from the chief scientific adviser downward".
When Mendelian genetics came under attack in the Soviet Union, Michurin's theories of hybridization, as elaborated by T.D. Lysenko, were adopted as the official science of genetics by the Soviet regime, despite the nearly universal rejection of this doctrine by scientists throughout the world.
DARPA is the latest in a number of official science funding agencies or top scientific societies that are exploring the controversial idea.
Montenegro's official science academy may see its budget subject to month-by-month approvals, or even face deep budget cuts, if it does not comply with a law forcing it to merge with the country's unofficial science academy.
