In a statement emailed to ScienceInsider, Lochhead said: "I will be happy to meet representatives of the science community and reassure them that these changes will not affect research as it is currently carried out in Scotland".
Perhaps representatives of the sciences need to mount a wider campaign for public support.
We soon found a striking pattern elite male faculty in the life sciences hire particularly few women but we also found that it would be difficult to get a large enough sample size to make the results robust and representative of the life sciences as a whole.
These vignettes are representative: the politicisation of the science advisory process can come from politicians or it can come from the advisers themselves.
Of this sample of 1,200 primary and secondary education professionals, only 248 were science teachers, and it was self-selecting so not representative, but 18% of the science teachers responding supported creationism/ID having the same status as evolution in the classroom.
Leaking a colleague's new results online before peer review and without permission clearly falls short of basic standards of professionalism or even common decency, but such occurrences are not at all representative of the majority of science writing on the web.
This evolution is representative of the evolution of science and medicine over the centuries and reflects the semantic evolution of the term.
This was attended by representatives of several parliamentary Committees, and representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development, UNICEF, preschool institutions from various parts of Serbia, civil society, and academic institutions.
As the representative of mainstream science, Bill Nye took a shotgun approach to the debate, bringing up multiple lines of evidence demonstrating the ideas creationists most often dispute.
That list includes Representative Brian Baird (D WA), chair of the science panel's environmental subcommittee, who will be stepping after 12 years in Congress.
