Its Board of Science says evidence shows the current prohibitive approach to drug use is not working.
In the week of the Asilomar meeting Science published evidence that more pollutants than previously appreciated, including oxides of sulphur, are getting into the lower stratosphere.
But, even in an era of sophisticated forensic science, definitive evidence can be elusive: in one case, the Serbs burned hundreds of corpses in a lead smelter.
He is also the author of the chapter on exposure assessment for the National Academies of Science Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
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Often, the science cited as evidence for the effectiveness of a compound was conducted in the lab on cells, rather than in the body of people.
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Its eerie ability to project into my thickly curtained bedroom is evidence of some force as yet unknown to science.
But just before that, evidence abounds of an early headstart in Asia of science and technology, philosophy and the arts.
It is evidence that the whole field is an example of pathological science.
Social-science advocacy organizations, however, have promoted the myth that a lack of evidence, so far, of bad effects implies the nonexistence of such effects.
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The type of global warming science reported to the public grows asymmetrically, with alarming evidence receiving far more exposure than evidence for more modest changes and impacts, or, climate-as-usual.
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The House of Commons science and technology committee is conducting an inquiry into the impact of closing the Forensic Science Service (FSS) which analysed crime scene evidence in England and Wales.
On the positive side, they can benefit from jurors' misguided notion that science solves crimes, and hence that the absence of crime-solving scientific evidence constitutes a reasonable doubt and grounds for acquittal.
Former Liberal Democrat science spokesman Evan Harris, who is now the director of the Campaign for Evidence Based Policy, said that it was "hard to imagine cases where so many professional standards had been breached".
In those years, I was drawn to science fiction (and mainly to its prose forms) for the evidence it offered of manifold possibilities of otherness.
There are two available awards: The Dooge medal is particularly intended for hydrologists who have demonstrated scientific excellence, and have made fundamental contributions to the science of hydrology as evidenced by publications in the international scientific literature and other high standard evidence.
In education, the evidence is less clear: international studies of teenagers' prowess in mathematics and science show no clear link to spending levels.
Scientific communication relies on evidence that cannot be entirely included in publications, but the rise of computational science has added a new layer of inaccessibility.
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Dr. Nickerson noted that science is replete not only with examples of great scientists tenaciously persisting with theories "long after the evidence against them had become sufficiently strong to persuade others without the same vested interests to discard them" but also with brilliant people who remained wedded to their pet hates.
It found "no evidence" of wrongdoing, but Mr Roe said he would step down from Rocket Science.
Dr Niewoehner's evidence, published in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, comes from fossils dug up in the Middle East.
Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition lobby group in Washington DC, said there was a lack of evidence.
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