As the latest study on the New Zealand public’s perception of science is released, a similar study across the Tasman focusing more narrowly on biotech has identified some similar trends. The survey of 1000 people from across Australia commissioned by the Australian Government’s Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research shows support for biotechnology techniques […]
MoreIt’s a science talkfest in Wellington at the moment as the Royal Society of New Zealand holds its AGM, its branches and Council meet and new fellows are welcomed into the fold. This year is interesting because the make-up of fellows shows the broadening of the Royal Society to include the humanities – hence names […]
MoreThe news through from Stockholm this evening will be sweet music to the ears of researchers at Manchester University who welcome two more Nobel laureates into their midst – giving the university a staggering four Nobel Prize winners among its researchers. UPDATE: Actually not that staggering as fellow Sciblogger Grant Jacobs pointed out to me […]
MoreWatching the secretly recorded 60 Minutes footage of disgraced former Defence chief scientist Steven Wilce lying his way through an interview with a journalist posing as a recruitment consultant, you have to wonder at the ease with which Wilce rattled off his deceptions. Wilce held the high-paying for five years, during which time he had […]
MoreProfessor Sir Peter Gluckman has just released a report looking at how he progressed in his first year as the country’s Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister. As someone who keeps a very close eye on how science is covered in the media and has the help of a media tracking service to do […]
MoreSo there are likely to be a number of happy researchers around the country basking in the glow of commitments for years of ongoing funding of their projects. Unfortunately, there will be many more not as happy because their research proposals missed out on funding – only 9.5 per cent of applications were successful. Still, […]
MoreScientists from GNS Science and the University of Canterbury have been busy in the wake of Saturday morning’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Canterbury attempting to learn more about the quake and what caused it. Credit has to go to GNS Science’s John Ristau, Canterbury’s Mark Quigley and Kevin Furlong, professor of geoscience at Penn State […]
MoreGallileo is invoked in this attack on the Skeptics Society with Scott Sharpe suggesting it is conventional medicine not alternative medicine that needs quackbusting… And sometimes Sciblogs contributor Dr Michael Edmonds’ response in last weekend’s Sunday Star Times…
MoreAs Australia rolls towards a Federal election a fair amount of pork barrel politicking is underway as Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott fight to swing the divided electorate their way. Still, there hasn’t been much for science, the only significant thing outlined in Labor’s science policy released this week being the […]
MoreChemtrails over Northland? Well, yes according to Clare Swinney – a massive geoengineering scheme to combat global warming and one being denied by the authorities. It’s a twist on the mass poisoning/ mass medication motive usually given by people who believe the vapour trials left by aircraft passing overhead are actually discharges of chemicals designed […]
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