Talk:NCSE

Does "NCSE" ever stand for "National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment"?

Not bloody likely, and National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment uses the acronym only to refer to the sponsor, not to the event. In the absence of contrary evidence, this is an extra entry created by the creator's ignorance of what a Dab page is. Your first step in refuting me could be checking whether more than one editor before me contributed to the Dab page.
--Jerzy•t 14:33, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Recall that the purpose of Dab pages is to dispel confusion based on ambiguity, not to get users to articles that are merely tangentially related to what the user asked for. (Getting them to tangentially related articles is the job of articles, and it is fundamental to the nature and success of WP that wiki articles, by their nature, do that job damn well.)
--Jerzy•t 15:36, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Business-science alliance"

I don't know our source for that adjective (which could be either a cover for "protecting business from science" or a sneer -- IMO justified but restrained -- about businesses' alleged pet scientists). I only note the heavy presence, per Support & Funding, of well-known profit-making companies and of foundations bearing the names of same, which arguably supports the "sneer" version.
--Jerzy•t 15:23, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]