In response to the growing body of research highlighting the burden of heart disease, the Victoria Declaration [ 25] put forward that much of this burden is largely preventable and established agendas for governments, international health agencies, social and economic development organizations, the scientific community, health coalitions and the private sector.
Therapeutic cloning "has considerable potential from a scientific perspective," the coalition said in a statement.
Scores of patient groups, scientific societies, and university coalitions devote much of their time to lobbying the U.S. Congress for more funding for biomedical research and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The point is not to claim that one or both of these coalitions misuse scientific knowledge to further their interests—although this may occasionally be the case but rather to show that in a political context, scientific knowledge is ultimately ambiguous and can be legitimately used to underpin different policies, interests, and decisions.
JB has brought together a coalition of scientific and industry figures to map the carbon profile of the industry and take practical steps to reduce it.
A coalition of scientific societies and other groups opposed to current federal policy is starting a national campaign to pressure political candidates starting tomorrow, the third anniversary of Mr. Bush's decision to put limits on federal money for research involving embryonic stem cells.
(A coalition of scientific societies, including AAAS, publisher of ScienceInsider, has even created a website for the concept).
The legislation was endorsed by an unusually broad coalition of scientific societies, business organizations, and higher education associations.
He envisioned the organization running the review being "a major scientific society or a coalition of National Academies of Science".
One big problem, Meltzer discovered, is that his funding target for NIH was $1 billion higher than the figure being pushed by a coalition of scientific organizations.
