Paul Kurtz, State University of New York at Buffalo philosophy professor and then chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal said the Warrens weren ’ t objective, independent, or impartial investigators and characterized the Smurls claims as “ a hoax, a charade, a ghost story .” Kurtz said that the Smurls claims were possibly due to delusions, hallucinations or brain impairment, and advised that they submit themselves to psychiatric and psychological examinations.

Scientific Support vehicles were usually Peugeot Expert vans equipped with a high intensity roof mounted light which allows forensic examinations to be completed in all lighting conditions.

Since 1992, the IWC's Scientific Committee has requested that it be allowed to give quota proposals for some whale stocks, but this has so far been refused by the Plenary Committee.

Following the IWC's 1991 refusal to accept its Scientific Committee's recommendation to allow sustainable commercial whaling, Iceland left the IWC in 1992.

The NCCS was founded in 1992 and is managed by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program of the U. S. Department of Energy ’ s Office of Science.

Shortly after his first public teaching, in September 1992 Falun Gong was recognized as a branch of qigong under the administration of the state-run China Qigong Scientific Research Society ( CQRS ).

He has received awards for his contributions to science, including the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in 1993 and the insignia of Honorary Companion of St Michael and St George from the British Government in 2003.

He was the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of Defence Research and Development Organisation from July 1992 to December 1999.

Certain environmentalists are concerned that Iceland left the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) in June 1992 in protest of an IWC decision to refuse to lift the ban on whaling, after the IWC Scientific Committee had determined that the taking of certain species could safely be resumed.

* 1992: School is a Public Establishment Scientific and Cultural Professional, the first agreement with the countries of Central and Eastern.

The laboratory of Tribology and Systems Dynamics, was created in 1992 and became in January 1995 a Mixed Unit of Research CNRS-MESR ( ECL-ENISE ) ( UMR 5513 ) which depends on the Scientific department Engineering and Information Sciences and Technologies, depending on Section 9 of the Evaluation National Committee.

He was a member of the ' Ad Hoc Origins Committee ' that supported Philip E. Johnson's book Darwin on Trial against palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould's high profile scathing review in Scientific American in 1992.

* Grove, R. H. ( 1992 ) ' Origins of Western Environmentalism ', Scientific American 267 ( 1 ): 22-27.

It is listed as a National Park ( Scientific ) under the Nature Conservation Act 1992, so giving it the highest level of protection possible under the Act.

Scientific American Sept 1992, v267, n3, p42 ( 1 )

* Alex and Pepperberg on PBS Scientific American Frontiers: Animal Einsteins February 12, 1992 ; If Only They Could Speak January 20, 1999 ; Entertaining Parrots October 16, 2001.

Sexologist Peter Sándor Gardos argues that his research suggests that "... the men who get most turned on by watching cum shots are the ones who have positive attitudes toward women " ( on the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex in 1992 ).

Sexologist Peter Sándor Gardos argues that his research suggests that "... the men who get most turned on by watching cum shots are the ones who have positive attitudes toward women " ( on the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex in 1992 ).

An accessible introduction to Geoffrey Hinton's research can be found in his articles in Scientific American in September 1992 and October 1993.

From 1990 to 1992 he was a Director of the 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defence ( Russia ).

* E. U. Curtis " Buff " Bohlen ( b. 1927 ) was the president of the World Wildlife Fund from 1981 to 1990, and United States Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs from 1990 to 1992.

* Chairman of the European Southern Observatory's Scientific Technical Committee, 1990 – 1992

The New Forest became a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971, and was granted special status as the New Forest Heritage Area in 1985, with additional planning controls added in 1992.

* Numerical Recipes in C. The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd Edition, 1992, ISBN 0-521-43108-5.

The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd Edition, 1992, ISBN 0-521-43064-X.

In The New Inquisition, Robert Anton Wilson, recognized episkopos, pope, and saint of the parody religion Discordianism, lampoons the members of skeptical organizations like the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP — now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) as fundamentalist materialists, alleging that they dogmatically dismiss any evidence that conflicts with materialism as hallucination or fraud.

* Office of Scientific Intelligence, former name of a department of the Central Intelligence Agency now called the Directorate of Science and Technology

* Office of Scientific Integrity, now United States Office of Research Integrity

A reduced research and development operation still exists and is now known as Teledyne Scientific and Imaging.

Scientific names that were once applied to plantains but are now invalid ( synonyms ) include:

Cisco became a major provider of Voice over IP to enterprises, and is now moving into the home user market through its acquisitions of Scientific Atlanta and Linksys.

The site is now an SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ) and still attracts international studies.

The first photoplotter was introduced by the Gerber Scientific Inc. ( now Ucamco, see http :// www. ucamco. com ) in the 1960s.

Scientific journals are moving towards using mmol / l ; some journals now use mmol / l as

Criticisms of the field were focused in the founding of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( 1976 ), now called the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and its periodical, Skeptical Inquirer.

These ISM bands – open frequencies with a higher unlicensed power permitted for use originally by Industrial, Scientific, Medical apparatus – are now becoming some of the most crowded in the spectrum because they are open to everyone.

Examples of this latter group include British comedian Michael Palin who now presents programmes about travel ( such as Around the World in 80 Days ), and Alan Alda, who has presented Scientific American Frontiers for over a decade.

The gorge is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest now called Cheddar Complex.

Then Professor Marvin Zelen, a statistician and associate of the recently founded Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP, now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI )), proposed in a 1976 article in the same periodical that, in order to eliminate any demographic anomaly, Gauquelin randomly pick 100 athletes from his data-set of 2, 088 and check the birth / planet correlations of a sample of babies born at the same times and places in order to establish a control group, giving the base-rate ( chance ) expectation for comparison ( The 100 random athletes later expanded into a subsample of 303 athletes ).

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bowles attended The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1919, and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1924.

Scientific romance is an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction.

The former Literary and Scientific Institute is now Commemoration Hall.

Adams based the book's research station, ARSE ( an acronym for Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental, and British slang for buttocks ), on the remote hill farm of Lawson Park, now run as an artist residency by the contemporary art organisation Grizedale Arts.

The Mechanics Institute concept was quickly adopted in numerous other cities and towns across the UK and overseas, but his association with the ground-breaking London institution was marked by it being renamed the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution in 1866 ( now, as Birkbeck College, part of the University of London ).

The Unitarian Chapel in the Garden on the north side of East Street next to the Literary and Scientific Institute is now an open faith community celebrating diverse beliefs differing from many other religions in that it believes in helping people find their own spiritual path rather than defining it for them.

In 1961 Powell received the Royal Medal, and served on the Scientific Policy Committee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) that year, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( now Russian Academy of Sciences ) " for outstanding achievements in the physics of elementary particles ".

Scientific techniques such as bite-mark comparison, once widely used, are now known to be subjective.

To assess the then-growing claims of psychic crime-solving, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( now Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) created a " task force " of investigators headed by Joe Nickell, PhD, a former magician, mentalist, and investigator for the world famous Pinkerton Detective Agency.

* ISI ( now part of Thomson Scientific ) publishes the ISI citation indexes in print and compact disc.