Nepalese Foresters: Technocrats or Deliberative Scientists?

Engineers or Scientists?

Knowledge on Lyme disease among foresters.

OBJECTIVES The first aim was an attempt to evaluate the level of knowledge on Lyme disease among people whose profession involves working in the forest; the second--recognition of the health problems that should be included in health education programmes concerning Lyme disease in this group of professionals. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was performed on 159 subjects. RESULTS Only 15% kn...

Are scientists a workforce ? – Or , how

S ome time ago, I was reading Science’s Careers and cringed at the title “Can NIH renovate the biomedical workforce?”. The problem was the word “workforce”, since its Russian equivalent was used by the Communist Party leadership to describe other citizens of the Soviet Union— where I grew up—whom they viewed as mere cogs in a machine at the Party’s disposal. Hoping that my past confused me into...

Simple or Simplistic ? Scientists ' Views on Occam '

This paper presents a discourse analysis of 40 semi-structured interviews with scientists on their views of Occam's razor and simplicity. It finds that there are many different interpretations and thoughts about the precise meaning of the principle as well as many scientists who reject it outright, or only a very limited version. In light of the variation of scientists' opinions, the paper look...

Direct deliberative governance online : consensual problem solving or accommodated pluralism ?

This paper describes and analyses distinct patterns of 'governance conversation' observed in interactions on a discussion list that aims to support local, direct, governance in a geographically colocated community in South Africa. Although each pattern relates to governance, making 'binding decisions', which has been seen as a key attribute of deliberative democratic processes, is almost entire...