It's silly, because research funded by the NIH is funded on merit, and there's no one pot for all stem cell research that gets divided up differently.
It may sound silly, but research has shown that superstitions can have a placebo effect on physical performance.
Our understanding of how genes work together, including how genetic defects or chromosome damage can lead to disease, would be decades behind our present level of knowledge if we did not fund fruit fly and other similar "silly" DNA research projects.
Dr Patricia de Wolfe London The whole journal rating system has just become a function of publishers being able to charge more money for their journals, as academic administrators (more so than researchers) play a silly game about research ratings, rather than concentrate on good research.
Both types of advert are arguably unwholesome, but the notion that a demonstrably well-informed public is helpless to resist them is silly, as much research has found".There is no clear relationship between restrictions on tobacco advertising and consumption of tobacco," says Jacob Sullum, the author of a forthcoming book on the anti-smoking movement.
The Slandered Penguin Chalk up another victory for scientific research over silly rumor: penguins do not fall over backward when they watch an airplane flying overhead.
That might have been the end of this story if Mr. Jarecki had not happened upon Jesse's brother, David Friedman, a k a Silly Billy, while doing research for a film on children's entertainers.
After years of silly Twitter posts, weak research papers and other forms of unimpressive public relations, those opposed to further financial reform now have serious representation in the debate about what to do regarding too-big-to-fail banks.
What do they like and need?" A decade ago, big food companies would have dismissed such research as silly, a deviation from the advances in industrial farming that have allowed them to reduce the cost of hamburgers and chicken nuggets.
"Silly, silly, silliness," Mr. Russo said dismissively.
