Boston Scientific declined to answer any questions about the layoffs, including where they will be concentrated.
Boston Scientific declined to comment on its pricing strategy, and a spokesman for Cordis said the company did not plan to compete primarily on price.
For example, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, published in 2007, crucially advanced a narrative of American scientific decline and inspired a strong legislative response.
"Only John Kerry would declare the country to be in scientific decline on a day when the country's first privately funded space trip is successfully completed," says spokesperson Steve Schmidt.
As the standards of scientific certainty decline, the public loses faith in scientific claims, and in scientists.
Jack Bend, a professor of pathology at the University of Western Ontario in London and one of the Canadian government's outside scientific advisers, declined to comment on what action Health Canada would take.
While absolute numbers of scientific contributions declined, educational contributions significantly increased (P = 0.003).
Australian students' scientific literacy has declined by 17 points since 2006, equivalent to seven months of schooling, with nine points of the decline in the last three years.
Instead, scientific performance steadily declined with increasing beer consumption across the board, from scientists who primly sip at two or three beers over a year to the sort who average knocking back more than two a day.
Ultimately, the association warned Ms. Gilchrist to "distinguish personal opinion from opinions based upon facts derived from scientific evidence," but declined to formally censure her or discipline her in any way.
