http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:55:43 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tara O'Toole has been confirmed by the Senate to be undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology directorate. Patrick Gallagher has been confirmed as the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A cheerful welcome... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-116-lot.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-116-lot.html Science Magazine Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:55:43 -0500 ScienceInsider by Richard Kerr and Jeff Mervis It was certainly striking in the telling. But the truth is another story. Speaking to business leaders at a White House event last week on clean energy and the economy, Secretary of Energy Steven... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/chus-tall-tale.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/chus-tall-tale.html Science Magazine Energy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:20:13 -0500 ScienceInsider by Greg Miller In the new movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, which opens today in the United States, George Clooney plays a former member of a secret sect of soldiers trained by the U.S. military to deploy a... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/a-philosopher-s.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/a-philosopher-s.html Science Magazine Defense Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:26:59 -0500 ScienceInsider by Eli Kintisch Scientists and policy experts will meet in March next year for a 5 day meeting to hash out rules for conducting field experiments on the controversial topic of geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned. Styled after the landmark 1975... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/march-geoengine.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/march-geoengine.html Science Magazine Environment/Climate Top Story geoengineering Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 -0500 ScienceInsider by Jeffrey Mervis Senator Tom Coburn (R–OK) finally got his long-awaited roll-call vote last night to strip out political science research from the 2010 budget of the National Science Foundation. And while his amendment was soundly defeated, 36 to 62,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/political-scien.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/political-scien.html Science Magazine Budget Top Story Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:08:12 -0500 ScienceInsider As much as a quarter of U.S. farmers growing genetically modified corn are not following rules meant to ensure that insects do not develop resistance to an organic pesticide called Bt. The company Complete Genomics reports online in Science today... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-115-cor.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-115-cor.html Science Magazine Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:20:56 -0500 ScienceInsider by John Travis The outrage among scientists over the firing of U.K. drug policy adviser David Nutt continues to bubble. Thursday, Martin Rees, the president of the Royal Society, offered his first thoughts on the matter, saying: Scientific advisers are... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/uk-science-advi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/uk-science-advi.html Science Magazine Europe Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:07:37 -0500 ScienceInsider by Eli Kintisch At an otherwise fairly pedestrian House of Representatives hearing on geoengineering today—the first of its kind in the United States—science committee chair Representative Bart Gordon (D–TN) announced a new partnership with the U.K. House of Commons to... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/house-science-p.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/house-science-p.html Science Magazine Environment/Climate Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:24:06 -0500 ScienceInsider by Eli Kintisch One wonders if it's unlikely that a comprehensive climate deal will happen in Copenhagen—as U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon said yesterday—how much china the Democrats are willing to break as they push the Senate to act on climate... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/senate-lurches.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/senate-lurches.html Science Magazine Environment/Climate climate bill Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:47:32 -0500 ScienceInsider by Jon Cohen Concern appears to be rising at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about people in lower risk groups cutting in line to receive the limited supplies of H1N1 vaccine. A letter sent today from CDC... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/swine-flu-vacci-2.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/swine-flu-vacci-2.html Science Magazine Biomedicine Swine Flu Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:46:09 -0500 ScienceInsider by Jon Cohen With reporting by Martin Enserink. Although the world’s attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of influenza, has popped up in many East Asian countries—and some variants... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sick-of-swine-f.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sick-of-swine-f.html Science Magazine Biomedicine Swine Flu Top Story Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:37:14 -0500 ScienceInsider A new center has opened at Purdue University to create software to help manage complex crises such as disease outbreaks and financial calamities. (Nonironic photo credit, Purdue) A 43-page book by Columbia University explores the psychological aspects of climate change.... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-114.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-114.html Science Magazine Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:20:27 -0500 ScienceInsider Less than 2 years ago, Princeton agriculture expert Tim Searchinger published a paper in Science that sought to quantify how growing biofuels on cropland in the United States could lead to deforestation abroad. He estimated in some cases that... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/sheehan-searchi.html Science Magazine Energy Environment/Climate Top Story Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:57:23 -0500 ScienceInsider by Jocelyn Kaiser Fewer academic biomedical scientists are relying on industry support for their research than in the mid-'90s, according to a study highlighted today in The Boston Globe. That's the most surprising result of the latest survey of industry... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/drug-company-mo.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/drug-company-mo.html Science Magazine Biomedicine industry funding research Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:46:30 -0500 ScienceInsider by Eli Kintisch From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday in Morocco: The State Department has established a science envoys program, and I’m pleased to announce today that the first envoys will be three of America’s leading scientists: Dr. Bruce... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/science-on-the.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/science-on-the.html Science Magazine Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:40:50 -0500 ScienceInsider