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President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)
Science is the one of the two most prestigious and influential academic journals in the natural sciences. (The other is Nature.)
Science (Journal) Quotes in Merchants of Doubt
The Merchants of Doubt quotes below are all either spoken by Science (Journal) or refer to Science (Journal). For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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Singer alleged that scientists had rushed to judgment. There was a bit of serious illogic here, for if scientists wanted above all to keep their own research programs going, then they would have had no reason to rush to judgment. They would have been better off continuing to insist that more research was needed, rather than saying that there was now sufficient evidence to warrant regulations.
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Science (Journal) Term Timeline in Merchants of Doubt
The timeline below shows where the term Science (Journal) appears in Merchants of Doubt. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...Foreign Affairs magazines just before the group formally published its results in the prestigious journal Science. Over the next few years, as other scientists added their own findings to the model,...
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A Wholesale Attack on Science. Oreskes and Conway explain that Frederick Seitz’s cousin Russell Seitz published a harsh attack on...
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...fact, Edward Teller and Fred Singer even published rebuttals to the nuclear winter theory in Science, the journal that originally presented it. Most scientists were liberals, but the conservative minority had...
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Chapter 4
...defending their research and correcting the executive summary. Johnston published his rebuttal in the journal Science, but it never received public attention. SST airplanes never became common, but Johnston’s research led...
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...A U.S. government task force recommended banning CFCs, and it assigned the National Academy of Sciences to review the evidence. In response, the aerosol industry paid a British professor to tour...
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When Science rejected Fred Singer’s paper for its lack of rigor, Singer publicly complained in the conservative...
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