"We conclude the study has substantial scientific deficiencies," wrote the authors.
We conclude that the 4-year field study by Pilling et al. [2] exposing honeybees to thiamethoxam-treated crops has substantial scientific deficiencies.
In 2007, a hard-hitting report (pdf) by a subcommittee of the FDA Science Board cited "serious scientific deficiencies" that threaten the safety of food.
"What it exposed were significant scientific deficiencies across many of the different methods that we use, both to examine and interpret different types of evidence," says Nic Daeid, a professor of forensic science at the University of Dundee in Scotland. .
Over 200 scientists, clinicians and academics signed a letter to the journal's editorial board commenting on the study's scientific deficiencies.
Indirect land use changes are recognised but not included due to current scientific and methodological deficiencies.
Recent reviews of seamount fauna and deep-sea corals have concluded that the global deficiency of scientific expertise in morphological taxonomy is a significant impediment to the understanding of deep-sea coral diversity, coral biogeography, conservation, and seamount ecology (Morgan et al. 2006; Parrish and Baco 2007; Rogers et al. 2007).
When we interviewed the management of the various research institutions, they cited deficiency in scientific infrastructure and a shortfall in the number of trained scientists who are capable of carrying out advanced health biotechnology research as one of the major challenges.
One effect of corporate-funded scientific research into micronutrient deficiency is that homemade food and established diets are considered inadequate and in need of fortification with commercial foods that can be better quantified and monitored in terms of their micronutrient content.
In light of these skill deficiencies, communicating scientific uncertainty to the public may sound like a misguided idea.
