It was striking, I remarked, that despite Chicago's image as a bastion of market efficiency, it was also home to much more questioning research in the financial system.
Committee chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) "says he's simply doing his job, questioning research that seems to him silly, obvious, or of low priority to society".
But Smith says he's simply doing his job, questioning research that seems to him silly, obvious, or of low priority to society.
The remaining principles are objectivity, questioning certitude, research freedom, research reproducibility, and respect for research subjects.
It is one thing to have a legitimate concern about a situation in which one researcher is questioning the research practices of another, if that concern is well-founded.
I'm not questioning their research ability or knowledge.
But last year, two scientists in Denmark published a paper questioning the research behind that belief: clinical trials, involving expert mammogram readers, that said screening could reduce the breast-cancer death rate -- now 40,000 a year -- by as much as 30percentt.
But in criticizing government-funded research on seemingly obscure topics, or in far-away countries, Smith was simply joining a long line of politicians who over the years have claimed to be protecting U.S. taxpayers by questioning how research agencies spend money.
The success of blinding will be assessed at 18-months via questioning the research assistant regarding whether they think the participant received postcards as part of the RCT - Yes/No.
A previous study by the same researchers questioning other climate research was rather harshly criticized by Realclimate.org and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, writing in an online blog of the journal Nature.
Field skills in Northamptonshire are rarely likely to be lifesaving, but, for me at least, a constant glow of satisfaction arises from each stage of the building cycle of questioning, investigating, researching and understanding the natural world around me.
