These surveys are, of course, not unassailably scientific; response rates varied between publications and different groups of women might have had specific motivations for replying, or not replying, to such a survey.
Asked by an analyst during Bristol-Myers's recent earnings conference call whether manufacturing would have an impact on approval, James B.D. Palmer, the company's chief scientific officer, replied, "Obviously we hope we will be going to approval," but, he added, it's "always unwise" to try to predict such things.
But the complaint is not so bizarre when one works through the references, because they so frequently expose careless reporting and environmentalists' abuse of scientific research.The replies to Dr Lomborg in Scientific American and elsewhere score remarkably few points of substance*.
These results indicate that letters in reply by original authors were more likely than letters to the editors – to which they were replying – to contain scientific discussion, and authors' replies generally had a higher count of scientific citations than did letters to the editor.
Science is a "social construction", on this strong STS view, and cannot be understood outside its human context.Knowledge may bring you power, replies the scientific orthodoxy, but power can't create knowledge: only evidence and sound procedures do that.
The reply is, "Scientific American, dearie".
The survey isn't scientific -- those who replied did so online, indicating that they were already predisposed to the Internet.
The EPSRC replied that "scientific excellence – funding the very best ideas – is at the heart of all that we do".
"So," he said, "for example, Adam, do you use humor in scientific presentations?" "No," I replied right away.
These discussion papers are then made available for "interactive public discussion," during which the comments of reviewers (usually, reviewers that already conducted the access review), additional comments by other interested members of the scientific community, and the authors' replies are published alongside the discussion paper.
