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Science, writ large, has an ongoing challenge in communicating its ideas and conclusions to the general public. Separately, it has an internal, rearguard problem with irreproducible results. These are distinct battles, and shouldnt be conflated. The reproducibility issue primarily involves laboratory experiments so laden with secret sauce and customized techniques that no one else can quite get the souffle to rise. The two issues overlap only to the extent that a major retraction or scientific blunder doesnt help the mainstream scientific institutions when they want to tell the world that they really do know what theyre talking about when they discuss climate change, vaccines, genetic engineering, nuclear power, etc. But the reproducibility problem isnt why some people reject the scientific consensus on certain issues. These issues have been cultural wedge issues and youll never fix that through more robust laboratory protocols.
Dan Vergano at National Geographic reports on the new Pew/AAAS survey showing the huge gap between scientific and public attitudes when it comes to such issues as whether GMO foods are safe to consume. Chris Mooney of our new Energy and Environment blog analyzes the Pew poll results. Aaron Blake at The Fix also provides a report. Heres the AP story. And heres the Pew report. Youll see massive gaps between what scientists think and what the public thinks, in aggregate. There are a couple of exceptions: The International Space Station, for example, has somehow failed to become a wedge issue. Someone surely is working on that right now. [Suggestion: Someone should reveal that three Russians have somehow found a way onto our space station!]
A couple of days ago I published a big story on reproducibility that I had started in August, and it had been just about ready to go into the paper when I had to stop everything to jump on the Ebola crisis.
First, the nut graphs:
Too often, experimental results cant be reproduced.
That doesnt mean the results are fraudulent or even wrong. But in science, a result is supposed to be verifiable by a subsequent experiment. An irreproducible result is inherently squishy.
And so theres a movement afoot, and building momentum rapidly. Roughly four centuries after the invention of the scientific method, the leaders of the scientific community are recalibrating their requirements, pushing for the sharing of data and greater experimental transparency.
So you see that, as a news story, it lacks the urgency of Ebola. But its a huge issue. Its global. I expect this story to be read around the world and translated in other languages and, you know, revered, and studied as closely as the Talmud.
But just to be clear: This is not a new topic. Were not really breaking any news here. People have been writing about the irreproducibility problem in science for many years. For example, heres a piece in The Atlantic in 2010. Heres one from The New Yorker in 2012. Heres our own Fred Barbash writing about Retraction Watch in 2014. Heres another 2014 piece, from The Scientist, and another, from The Monkey Cage.
Whats new, it seems to me, is the intensity with which powerful institutions in the scientific world the NIH, the journals Science and Nature, major foundations have decided to get together and find solutions. Theyve organized meetings, revised guidelines, funded new efforts like the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville (which I visited as part of my reporting).
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Posted By richards on January 30, 2015
Science, writ large, has an ongoing challenge in communicating its ideas and conclusions to the general public. Separately, it has an internal, rearguard problem with irreproducible results. These are distinct battles, and shouldnt be conflated. The reproducibility issue primarily involves laboratory experiments so laden with secret sauce and customized techniques that no one else can quite get the souffle to rise. The two issues overlap only to the extent that a major retraction or scientific blunder doesnt help the mainstream scientific institutions when they want to tell the world that they really do know what theyre talking about when they discuss climate change, vaccines, genetic engineering, nuclear power, etc. But the reproducibility problem isnt why some people reject the scientific consensus on certain issues. These issues have been cultural wedge issues and youll never fix that through more robust laboratory protocols.
Dan Vergano at National Geographic reports on the new Pew/AAAS survey showing the huge gap between scientific and public attitudes when it comes to such issues as whether GMO foods are safe to consume. Chris Mooney of our new Energy and Environment blog analyzes the Pew poll results. Aaron Blake at The Fix also provides a report. Heres the AP story. And heres the Pew report. Youll see massive gaps between what scientists think and what the public thinks, in aggregate. There are a couple of exceptions: The International Space Station, for example, has somehow failed to become a wedge issue. Someone surely is working on that right now. [Suggestion: Someone should reveal that three Russians have somehow found a way onto our space station!]
A couple of days ago I published a big story on reproducibility that I had started in August, and it had been just about ready to go into the paper when I had to stop everything to jump on the Ebola crisis.
First, the nut graphs:
Too often, experimental results cant be reproduced.
That doesnt mean the results are fraudulent or even wrong. But in science, a result is supposed to be verifiable by a subsequent experiment. An irreproducible result is inherently squishy.
And so theres a movement afoot, and building momentum rapidly. Roughly four centuries after the invention of the scientific method, the leaders of the scientific community are recalibrating their requirements, pushing for the sharing of data and greater experimental transparency.
So you see that, as a news story, it lacks the urgency of Ebola. But its a huge issue. Its global. I expect this story to be read around the world and translated in other languages and, you know, revered, and studied as closely as the Talmud.
But just to be clear: This is not a new topic. Were not really breaking any news here. People have been writing about the irreproducibility problem in science for many years. For example, heres a piece in The Atlantic in 2010. Heres one from The New Yorker in 2012. Heres our own Fred Barbash writing about Retraction Watch in 2014. Heres another 2014 piece, from The Scientist, and another, from The Monkey Cage.
Whats new, it seems to me, is the intensity with which powerful institutions in the scientific world the NIH, the journals Science and Nature, major foundations have decided to get together and find solutions. Theyve organized meetings, revised guidelines, funded new efforts like the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville (which I visited as part of my reporting).
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Published January 29, 2015
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, a woman walks past a monument to the Jews believed to have been murdered in this place in a pogrom by local people in 1506, in Lisbon. Portugal is following Spain and granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago. The words in the monument read in Portuguese: "In memory of the thousands of Jewish victims of the intolerance and religious fanaticism murdered in a massacre that began in this place on April 19, 1506". (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)(The Associated Press)
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, Jewish prayer shawls are stored on a shelf at the entrance of the Jewish synagogue in Lisbon. Portugal is following Spain and granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)(The Associated Press)
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, Jose Oulman Bensaude Carp, President of the Jewish community in Lisbon, waits to be interviewed by The Associated Press at the main Jewish synagogue in Lisbon. Portugal is following Spain and granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)(The Associated Press)
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, a Jewish yarmulke reading in Portuguese "Jewish Community of Lisbon", rests with others in a bowl at the entrance of the Jewish synagogue in Lisbon. Portugal is following Spain and granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)(The Associated Press)
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, Jose Oulman Bensaude Carp, President of the Jewish community in Lisbon, waits to be interviewed by The Associated Press at the main Jewish synagogue in Lisbon. Portugal is following Spain and granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)(The Associated Press)
LISBON, Portugal Portugal is following Spain and granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted 500 years ago.
The government approved Thursday a change to its nationality law that provides dual citizenship rights for Sephardic Jews the term commonly used for those who once lived in the Iberian peninsula. Spain adopted a similar law last year
Applicants will be vetted by Portuguese Jewish community institutions, as well as by government agencies.
After Spain drove out Jews in 1492, some 80,000 of them crossed the border into Portugal, historians estimate.
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Jeff Rense Preston James - Jews Must Reject World Zionism Clip from January 19, 2015 - guest Preston James on the Jeff Rense Program. Full program available in Archives at http://www.renseradio.com/signup.htm. By: Jeff Rense
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Posted By richards on January 30, 2015
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
April 30, 2014
JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2014
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
For thousands of years, the Jewish people have sustained their identity and traditions, persevering in the face of persecution. Through generations of enslavement and years of wandering, through forced segregation and the horrors of the Holocaust, they have maintained their holy covenant and lived according to the Torah. Their pursuit of freedom brought multitudes to our shores, and today our country is the proud home to millions of Jewish Americans. This month, let us honor their tremendous contributions -- as scientists and artists, as activists and entrepreneurs. And let all of us find inspiration in a story that speaks to the universal human experience, with all of its suffering and all of its salvation.
This history led many Jewish Americans to find common cause with the Civil Rights Movement. African Americans and Jewish Americans marched side-by-side in Selma and Montgomery. They boarded buses for Freedom Rides together, united in their support of liberty and human dignity. These causes remain just as urgent today. Jewish communities continue to confront anti-Semitism -- both around the world and, as tragic events mere weeks ago in Kansas reminded us, here in the United States. Following in the footsteps of Jewish civil rights leaders, we must come together across all faiths, reject ignorance and intolerance, and root out hatred wherever it exists.
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By Glenn Avolio for the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society | Published on 01.30.2015 8:52 a.m.
The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society will hold its monthly general meeting from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 21 at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance St. in Santa Barbara.
James Terzian
This months featured speaker, James Terzian, will present "Americans Heraldic Heritage:Coats of Arms, Clan Crests, Illustrious Ancestry and Other Secrets We Genealogists Know."
Most of us associate coats of arms with knights and nobility, clans and colonies the stuff of romance from ages of swords and chivalry. So it is. But heraldry is also very American.
From the first European voyages of discovery to the present day, heraldry has been actively used by military and civilian branches of government, by social, educational, religious and business organizations, and by families and individuals. It is part of the heritage of most who descend from Europeans, the bequest of ancestors of achievement, social position, political influence or affluence. And though few modern Americans understand heraldry, we see and use it everywhere.
In this months presentation, Terzian will explain American and European heraldry in a one-hour lecture and discussion. He will survey how heraldry works;how a person acquires and uses arms;how armorial ensigns on heirlooms, antiques, buildings, monuments and other artifacts can be "read";and how these graphical representations of identity can be used to solve genealogical challenges and ancestral mysteries.
Terzian, is chairman of the Heraldry Foundation, director of the Miles Morgan Origins Project, secretary-treasurer of the Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain, and co-author of the currently authoritative treatise on American heraldic law. He has studied and consulted in heraldry and genealogy for over 40 years, and has represented the United States as a delegate to the International Congresses of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences. He has also been honored by the Queen of the United Kingdom for his nonprofit activities.
Terzian is managing director of the Terzian International Group, a 27-year-old Silicon Valley firmthat advises clients on the development, launch and turn-around of technology, education and cultural organizations.
This promises to be a fascinating presentation.
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Posted By simmons on January 30, 2015
2014 USA Defense Secretary Hagel says Israel did not tell him Syria used chemical weapons 2014 US Defense Secretary Hagel says Israel did not tell him of its intelligence assessment that Syria used chemical weapons - read more US Defense Secretary. In this edition of City Scene... By: Besa Ewak
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BENEFIZ AM 08.02.2015 - GAZA/SYRIEN - BRAUNSCHWEIG Helft euren Geschwistern fissabillilah und schaut vorbei .... http://www.ansaar.de. By: Ansaar Dsseldorf e.V.
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