The scientist corrected my poetic thinking.
For example, when one agency scientist wrote in a draft plan for the national study that wastewater could be "discharged to surface water after treatment to remove contaminants," another scientist corrected the statement in the margin.
Inevitably, the technology will also permit scientists to correct genetic flaws in human embryos.
By incorporating statistical techniques that are now widely used in other sciences — genetics, economic modeling, even wildlife monitoring — social scientists can correct for such problems, saving themselves (and, ahem, science reporters) time, effort and embarrassment.
Thus, the selected organizations would need to communicate the range of views to policymakers and scientists, and correct the misconceptions that these groups frequently have about people's perspectives on the development of a technology — that they will inevitably reject it or never understand it.
George Daley of the Whitehead Institute and Harvard Medical School says "It's going to allow us to build a lot of important research tools" and should enable scientists to correct genetic defects in human ES cells, he says.
Scientists can correct for these signal distortions, but there's an extra complication: Other nearby planetary bodies also affect the pulsar signals because their gravitation tugs at Earth's motion.
The hope is that the cell will use the newly delivered DNA to fix the break, thereby allowing scientists to correct a mistake in the gene.
The problem was made worse, Lemaitre said, by funding bodies' preoccupation with rankings, metrics and impact, and by a failure to reward scientists for correcting the record with meticulous, but unflashy results.
