But other sites lacking a scientific mandate do.
Critics say its scientific mandate has never been well defined, and that some specific goals, like growing near-perfect crystals in microgravity, may not be achievable.
This complexity interacts with the scientific mandate to speak to other scientists in levels of uncertainty (e.g., p < .05), thereby opening argumentative causeways to challenge scientific findings.
The initial scientific program mandated by the need for microwave tube development during World War II (1942) continued into the late 1950s under support of the Joint Services Electronics Program JSEPP).
In addition, the interactions between medicine and other scientific disciplines mandate a common language.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) recognized this gap in scientific knowledge and mandated that sex be factored into the design and data analysis of all cell culture and animal studies.
Stephen Johnson, who overseas the United States Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide program, said malathion was undergoing an independent scientific review, as mandated by a 1996 federal law to re-evaluate pesticides.
Documents filed by the state explained that the endangerment finding was unsupported because the EPA had outsourced its legally mandated scientific assessment to the IPCC, which had had the objectivity, reliability, and propriety of its scientific assessments called into question.
The law, enacted by Congress in 1962, mandated scientific testing of all new drugs to see if they worked, as well as testing of drugs introduced before 1962 for both safety and efficacy.
The European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) were initially limited to technical, scientific, and tariff-reduction mandates.
Two of them, Public Citizen and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, have filed suit to block the agency from allowing the new type of claim, contending that it violates a 1990 law that mandates "significant scientific agreement" on the health benefits of a food before claims can be made on labels.
