US scientists reject interference
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More than 10,000 US researchers sign a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process.
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The United States is still the world leader in scientific innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, the National Science Board reported today.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is preventing an agency scientist from presenting the largest, most up-to-date study of popular painkillers like Bextra, Celebrex and Vioxx during an FDA meeting next week on heart risks posed by the drugs, a US senator charged.
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THE US stood firm in rejecting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming yesterday despite renewed pressure to yield after Russia ended years of hesitation by moving to ratify the treaty.
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Media & professional: Scientists disprove claims made in controversial Channel 4 programme of natural explanation for global warming.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
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The world&#39;s chief climate scientist disputed yesterday the US government&#39;s contention that cutbacks in carbon-dioxide emissions are not warranted to slow global warming.
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Scientists working for the government failed to tell the Bush Administration about problems concerning the use of medication being sent to Africa to treat the HIV virus.
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Hundreds of U.S. scientists have   challenged a recent decision by an international astronomy   group to strip Pluto of its planetary status with a petition   rejecting its definition of what constitutes a planet.
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British scientists were backing Sunday a campaign to stop the United States from creating a worldwide ban on all types of human cloning.
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Americans are supposedly not interested in science. But "science cafes," where scientists lecture and field questions, draw crowds all over the country.
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Non-aligned nations rejected on Tuesday any "interference" in Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors, in a rebuff to the United States and European Union.
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One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture and bury greenhouse gases.
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Leading scientists have urged peers not to block the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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If an extraterrestrial civilization wanted to maximize its chances of being discovered by another civilization, the best bet may not ride on radio waves.    Rutgers -- Were E.T...
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The US National Institutes of Health invests $28bn annually in research. European spending is lower, although the European Union is closing the gap, helped by a shortsighted American policy of &quot;flatlining&quot; many scientific research budgets. (Perhaps this is because scientists have an annoying tendency to discuss things that conflict with the Bush administration&#39;s view of reality, such as global warming, evolution, the insufficiency of the New Orleans levee system and the medical potential of stem cells.)
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Environmentalists reject US claims that it is doing as much to curb global warming as Kyoto deal nations.