The work of political scientists advances the knowledge and understanding of citizenship and government, politics, and this shouldn't be minimized.
Scientists advance in their careers largely because of proficiency at research not because they're good teachers, not because they're good communicators, and certainly not because they're universally kind and pleasant.
Americans have always risked personal and financial failure in pursuit of greatness, as when pioneers settled the West, scientists advanced medicine, or inquisitive minds invented personal computers.
Both ideas were introduced by scientists, advanced by politicians, popularized by the media, embraced as a moral necessity, resulted in severe consequences and eventually rejected as harmful hogwash.
A board of prominent scientists advanced the minute hand because in their view, unchecked climate change and global nuclear-weapon modernization are pushing humanity to the brink.
In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years.
Second - and this is particularly ironic for a discipline that studies the social organization of power and argues for historically-grounded understandings of social change: When has a collective commitment by a group of social scientists to avoid contact with other social scientists advanced the cause of justice?
The advocates questioned whether the research methods and the variables selected by the scientists advanced the knowledge of possible carcinogeneity of environmental exposures (McCormick et al. 2004).
This session was followed by an introduction by Prof. Onesmo ole-MoiYoi, a pioneering Kenyan scientist, to advances in genomics and molecular biology within the African context – including cutting-edge research at his institute and others on the continent, as well as the broader relevance of genomics and molecular approaches to the health of Africa's people, animals and the environment.
My father, Eric Roberts, who has died aged 86, was a renowned seed and crop scientist who advanced the understanding of plant breeding and genetic resource conservation.
Some political scientists say advances like a $15 minimum wage and paid sick days will be limited to deep blue, progressive cities like Seattle and San Francisco.
