An International Scientific Community: Asian Scholars in the United States. By Hyaeweol Choi. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995. xiv, 236 pp.

1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 446-448
Author(s):  
Cheng Kai-Ming
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Scientific Community

The thrill of everyday science: images of science and scientists on children's educational science programmes in the United States

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilee Long ◽  
Jocelyn Steinke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Science ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
Images Of Scientists ◽  
Images Of Science

Several media effects perspectives suggest that televised images can influence children's perceptions of science and scientists. This study analysed images of science and scientists in four children's educational science programmes. The images of science as truth, as fun, and as a part of everyday life, as well as the image that science is for everyone, were quite evident. Little evidence was found for the image of science as magical or mysterious. Support for the images of science as dangerous and science as a solution to problems was mixed. Images of scientists as omniscient and elite were quite prevalent; there was no evidence for the image of scientists as evil or violent. Some support was found for the image of scientists as eccentric and antisocial. Overall, the images were more constructive than detrimental. Predictions about the effect these images could have on children and on the scientific community are given.

Reporters, news sources, and scientific intervention: the New Madrid earthquake prediction

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conrad Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Earthquake Prediction ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
News Sources ◽  
New Madrid

Five major newspapers in the United States published only eight stories about a scientifically legitimate prediction of a 1989 earthquake that caused six billion dollars' damage. The same newspapers published 68 stories about an unscientific prediction of a 1990 earthquake that did not occur. This paper attempts to explain why the unscientific prediction received more scrutiny by examining the journalistic practices that determine what is newsworthy and who is interviewed. The paper also analyses the effectiveness of an organized effort by the scientific community to intervene in the journalistic process.

scholarly journals A beginner’s guide to getting involved in science advocacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1181-1184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsey Chandler Ruppersburg ◽  
Amanda L. York
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advocacy Group ◽  
Policy Makers

Every scientist in the United States likely has a story of how the federal funding crisis for biomedical research has affected him or her personally. The sharing of these powerful anecdotes will enable policy makers to fully grasp the extent to which the decline in federal funding has negatively affected the scientific community. However, many scientists do not know where to begin or are uncertain that their advocacy efforts will have an impact. In an effort to encourage more scientists to become involved in science advocacy, we describe how to form and maintain a student science advocacy group.

scholarly journals Policy liberalism and source of news predict pandemic-related health behaviors and trust in the scientific community

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252670
Author(s):  
Madeleine Reinhardt ◽  
Matthew B. Findley ◽  
Renee A. Countryman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
News Media ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Health Measures

In March of 2020, the United States was confronted with a major public health crisis caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This study aimed to identify what factors influence adherence to recently implemented public health measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing, trust of scientific organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on information pertaining to the pandemic, and level of perceived risk. Data were collected from June 30, 2020 to July 22, 2020 on 951 adult residents of the United States using an online survey through Microsoft Forms. Multiple linear regression was used to identify the strongest predictors for compliance to pandemic-related health measures, trust in the scientific community, and perceived risk. Results showed that the strongest predictor of all variables of interest was degree of policy liberalism. Additionally, participants who consumed more conservative news media conformed less to the pandemic health guidelines and had less trust in the scientific community. Degree of policy liberalism was found to have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between gender and conformity to pandemic-related health behaviors. These findings have concerning implications that factors like degree of policy liberalism and source of news are more influential in predicting adherence to life-saving health measures than established risk factors like pre-existing health conditions.

Lunar Charting on the Scale 1: 1000000

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 117-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Carder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space Program ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Information Center

The Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (ACIC), St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., with assistance from the scientific community, has embarked on a program to produce 1 : 1 000000 scale charts of the Moon. This work is an Air Force cartographic contribution to the United States Space Program.

United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-53
Author(s):  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
David R. Johnson ◽  
Brandon Vaidyanathan ◽  
Kirstin R. W. Matthews ◽  
Steven W. Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Religious People ◽  
The Us ◽  
Beneficial Impact

US scientists believe that the US religious public is generally antiscience. However the views of religious Americans are much more nuanced and religious Americans are often more open to science and scientific issues than scientists would believe. Nevertheless, scientists’ perceptions of the religious public in the United States shape their views of religion and science. Scientists who are religious generally keep their science and their faith separate. Religious scientists feel they are at risk of discrimination within the scientific community, because of existing stereotypes about religious people. Religious scientists are often influenced by their faith when choosing scientific work that they think will have a beneficial impact on society.

British Scientists and the Bomb: The Decisions of 1980

1981 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-292
Author(s):  
Roger Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Technical Community ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Civil Defence ◽  
Do So

THE BRITISH CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT ELECTED IN MAY 1979 had, by August 1980, taken three decisions in respect of nuclear weapons and civil defence which in portent had had few peacetime parallels. These decisions naturally had a technical as well as a political dimension yet, until at least the spring of 1981, the involvement of the British scientific community in public discussion of the underlying issues remained negligible. No similar decisions could be taken, or even contemplated, in the United States without provoking a response both substantial and professional from American scientists. How does one explain the attitude, or lack of it, in this context of their British counterparts? Why, when these decisions were announced, did British scientists behave, or appear to behave, as political eunuchs? Are there no matters which rouse them to political involvement? Or are they perhaps more politically effective precisely because they pursue a low-profile course? These questions are important and it is worth trying to answer them. Before attempting to do so, however, it will be helpful both to identify the British decisions of 1979–80 referred to above, and also to outline such reaction to them on the part of the British technical community as had, in fact, occurred by the spring of 1981.

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