While Marohasy's central claim – that BoM is doctoring figures to make them more acceptable to a narrative of warming - remains entirely untested in the scientific literature, the bureau's methods used to compile ACORN-SAT have been peer reviewed.
J. L. G. has received grants/research support from Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Novo-Nordisk, and served as a consultant or member of a scientific advisory panel/speakers bureau for Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly and Novo-Nordisk.
On Thursday, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which defends workers in the environmental field against what it regards as abuses, filed a complaint accusing the ocean energy bureau of scientific misconduct.
The F.B.I. asked the panel last year to review the bureau's scientific work on the case, though not its conclusion on the perpetrator's identity.
Mr. Mueller told the committee that he recognized the importance of the scientific foundation for the bureau's case against Dr. Ivins.
Mr. Mueller, echoing scientific evidence that the bureau has released, said forensic testing of samples of the anthrax used in the attacks provided "clear identification" linking the strain to a flask in Dr. Ivins's laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., where he studied anthrax vaccines.
A spokesman for the National Science Foundation, an agency that promotes scientific research, confirmed that the bureau had requested information about the 1999 contract and a later contract valued at up to $100 million to VECO to provide logistics for Arctic researchers.
A look at Einstein's file, available at foia.fbi.gov/einstein.htm, shows more about public -- and bureau -- attitudes toward scientific genius than toward the genius himself.
In 1946 Khariton was appointed scientific director of a new design bureau (KB-11) to supervise the design and manufacture of nuclear weapons.
Surveys carried out by the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau, established specifically for the purpose of looking at nutrition, have covered only 10 states, which were selected not on any scientific basis but because they have bureau offices.
