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Socio-Cultural Currents Affecting Heritage Site Visit Considerations or 'I didn't join English Heritage to be a Salesman'
My day job is the study of the British, the public generally, the electorate, in political terms (although opinion polls that you see in the newspapers and on television is but 1% of our turnover - that's right, 1%, of MORI's turnover - but 99% of the publicity).
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DVD Set To Become Most Popular Form Of Recorded Home Entertainment
British public believe DVD will replace VHS as source of entertainment in the home
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Public Support For Controversial Technologies Could Increase If Applications Are Explained
A new public opinion survey has shown that support for controversial technologies in the Life Sciences may be increased if the public is given proof that those developments are necessary in order to achieve certain benefits. A poll conducted by MORI and commissioned by Novartis UK Ltd shows that if the public can see concrete benefits arising from research it is more willing to support new technologies.
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GM Field Trials - Three-Quarters Of The British Public Don't Want Them
Just over three-quarters of the British public are opposed to field trials of generically modified crops. In response to this public demand, Greenpeace is calling for all GM field trials, including the Governments 'farm-scale' trials, to be stopped and the money spent on organic research.
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Science and Democracy: Public Attitudes to Science and Scientists
World Conference on Science, Session 10
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Popularity Of UK Museums
The Museums & Galleries Commission (MGC) today unveiled the first in a major series of annual research reports into museum and gallery visitors. Conducted by MORI, with financial support from the Campaign for Museums, the research revealed that thirty five percent of all adults have been to a museum within the last year. This is a higher proportion than those who attend historical buildings or stately homes (32 per cent), artistic events such as theatre, opera, or ballet (30 per cent) and even more than theme parks (28 per cent). They attract a significantly higher proportion than those who attend pop and classical concerts, 16 and 12 per cent. Museums and galleries are socially inclusive, attracting people from all walks of life and they are seen to represent good value for money. Both those who visit museums and those who do not believe that museums are of social and educational value.
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Attitudes Towards Experimentation on Live Animals
What would it take for you to agree that a mouse or monkey should suffer pain or even die? To cure a life-threatening disease? Or would no scientific gain justify the animal's suffering?
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Attitudes Towards Experimentation on Live Animals - Toplines
Q1.a On balance, do you agree or disagree that scientists should be allowed to conduct any experiments on live animals?
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Consumer Knowledge of the Hazards of Carbon Monoxide and Faulty Domestic Heating Systems
A research report by Mark Speed, Jenny Dickson and Sarah Birtles on behalf of the DTI.
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Europe: The State of Public Opinion
In this article I argue that public opinion is important, real, and in the run up to the Maastricht Treaty was mismanaged to the point of neglect. This was also true in relation to the European movement towards the ICG, following after the Maastricht Treaty ratification process.