Advances over the past decade in this promising scientific field have been encouraging, leading to broad agreement in the scientific community that the research should be supported by Federal funds.

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Supercomputing is revolutionizing open research within the global scientific community, based on the idea that scientific knowledge -- and access to supercomputers -- should be openly shared and available to all.

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The scientific community held its collective breath when research published by CERN suggested that the little guys had been caught traveling at an Einstein-defying 3.7 miles per second faster than light.

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We hope that we can get not just Church leaders, but also ministers of health and the scientific community to work together to advance the research and transfer stem-cell therapies safely from the laboratory to the clinic.

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I'd love to see science teachers be able to have real research opportunities and be part of a scientific community in the summers.

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"These latest figures come amidst climate talks in Doha, but with emissions continuing to grow, it's as if no-one is listening to the scientific community, " said Corinne Le Quere, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

BBC: Carbon emissions are 'too high' to curb climate change

"As the scientific community has been saying for a long time, there is no good, credible, reproducible research that supports the hypothesis that MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine causes autism, " said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, an autism expert at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

CNN: Autism ruling fails to convince many vaccine-link believers

Meanwhile the actual woo peddlers use legitimate research in those realms to justify whatever crazy thing they feel like justifying, with nobody in the scientific community really giving any measured response.

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