In "The Future of Conservation," a recent article in Foreign Affairs, Dr. Steven Sanderson, president and chief executive of the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, called for independent scientific audits of international conservation projects.
Growing crops to make biofuels results in vast amounts of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere and does nothing to stop climate change or global warming, according to the first thorough scientific audit of a biofuel's carbon budget.
A scientific audit to determine the value of the "other" residential classification at the national level has not been conducted.
Using interviews with ex-members such as Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis, Gibney shows how this aggressively paranoid organisation evolved from a postwar evangelical racket by pulp sci-fi author L Ron Hubbard: a cosmic worldview based on his own imaginings, but with Barnumesque genius marketed through quasi-scientific "auditing".
Study Design: This study was carried out by means of a scientific clinical audit producing actuarial data by way of a semistructured questionnaire.
Although you may not be aware of it now, you probably want a product which complies to legal requirements like 21CFR11, as well as good scientific practice (full audit trial, restriction on deletion of data, timestamps, ability to freeze and sign entries, among others).
Journals have rejected calls to make the process scientific by conducting random audits like those used to monitor quality control in medicine.
The project is audited by scientific, academic and technical agencies that evaluate its environmental and socio-economic impact, and is scrutinized by local protectionist NGOs that are practically able to stop the activity if they consider that guanacos are not properly managed.
The need to incorporate scientific evidence into the audit procedures and to use clinical protocols and training programs to improve the quality of obstetrical care, as experience by the group, has been mentioned before by other authors [ 39, 40].
The Energy Department has 9,900 employees, including 4,600 scientific and technical employees, the audit said.
Rooted in any seemingly plodding pace of scientific oversight, however, are many mechanisms for auditing the potential survival of junk science, providing objective expert consensus through arms-length means, and providing wide scientific acceptance because of the efforts of many, not one or a very few.
