The research is still limited, but the questions are intriguing, as scientists bring rigor to the study of emotional and psychological effects of pet ownership, along with traditional pediatric concerns of allergies, bites and infections.
Like Mr. Stuart, this was the moral Feynman preferred, as he warned the Caltech undergrads to be rigorous scientists, because their lack of rigor would be quickly exposed by the scientific process.
They must have the attributes of traditional scientists, including inner drive, rigor, and technical skills.
Smith is a scholar, trained as a political scientist, intent on bringing rigor to the world of food.
But some scientists are now bringing mathematical rigor to the tipping-point argument.
scientists, we find that their rigor and honesty as scientists are not in doubt," said the new report, led by Muir Russell, a retired British civil servant and educator.
Critics of evolutionary theory question not only the integrity of the scientific enterprise but also the rigor of practicing scientists.
Partly this reflects the rise of economists (at the expense of political scientists and do-gooders) and the rigor they pack in their briefcases.
You are making judgments about rigor and quality that scientists reading published articles rely on.
Ford's research brings a powerful quantitative rigor to something that scientists have qualitatively known for years, says John Volpe, a marine biologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
