Sentences with phrase «war on science which»

Chris Mooney's Republican War on Science which I plan to review soon, gives chapter and verse and the whole network of thinktanks, politicians and tame scientists who have popularised GW contrarianism, Intelligent Design and so on.

Not exact matches

Vannevar Bush, for example, a former president of MIT and director of the government's Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, published an influential article in the Atlantic Monthly which «offered an amazingly prescient view of the effect of science on the world economy and of computers in daily life.»

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Yet there is a strong and deep academic literature, that draws on extensive interdisciplinary evidence from economics, political science, anthropology and history, which shows how simplistic and misguided such arguments about «resource wars» are, both when approached theoretically and through Asian or African case studies.

This article is part of this week's Science special issue on human conflict, which traces the trajectory of violence and war throughout history, exploring racism, ethnic conflicts, the rise of terrorism, and the possible future of armed conflicts.

But given the rush of numbers, the analytical approach of physicists and economists — on Wall Street and now in war — will inevitably keep spreading, Clauset says, «We are entering an era in which social sciences have access to a wealth of data beyond their wildest dreams.»

Also discussed in that post is other sources such as the Scientific American article, It's Time to End the War on Salt, The zealous drive by politicians to limit our salt intake has little basis in science which summarized the research of eleven studies and showed that sodium does not dramatically alter blood pressure.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a science fiction piece, with Star Wars on it, which was okay.

«Children Of Men» For a film which is, ostensibly at least, science fiction (it creates one of the most coherent, fascinating futuristic dystopias ever seen on screen), «Children of Men» sums up our War - on - Terror, immigration - panic era better than any contemporary drama could.

At least, the historical value excuses most of the shortcomings, this hailing from the end of film noir's height, revealing much on public tastes of the time and even touching upon the Cold War paranoia for which the decade and its parabolic science fiction are recalled.

STARCRASH represents an early foray for the composer into the realm of science fiction and he would soon return again when he worked in 1979 on THE BLACK HOLE, Disney's attempt to compete with rival studios in the wake of STAR WARS and MOONRAKER, that year's entry in the James Bond series, which featured many science fiction elements.

Ben Santer, a specialist in climate modeling at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and veteran of the climate wars of the 1990s, distributed «An Open Letter to the Climate Science Community» tonight (which I saw via the Google Group on Geoengineering; it's also on DeSmogBlog).

Keep in mind that war what happens when sensibility breaks down, and while I'm not an Al Gore hater, climate hoax believer, I do see where there is a lot of impetus to find solutions based on what we know now instead of doing what science ideally does, which is seek further to expand our understanding with new questions and new answers.

When one of us (Naomi Oreskes) published a review in the journal Science of the book The Republican War on Science, in which we noted some connections not pursued in that book, Science was threatened with a lawsuit unless it published a rebuttal.

He set it in the context of other books which cover the «history of manufactured ignorance»: David Michaels's Doubt is their Product (2008), Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science (2009), David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz's Deceit and Denial (2002), and his own book Cancer Wars (1995).

Among these books are free - market classics by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy by Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White which makes «an unapologetic case for fossil fuels», and The Evolution of Everything, the latest publication by British climate science denier and coal mine owner Matt Ridley.

In light of the denial machine's war on climate science, which seeks to delegitimize the IPCC and lay a predicate for rejecting any unwelcome conclusions of the forthcoming reports, we expect they will find a way to challenge the author selection and subsequent steps of the IPCC process.

A search of the Science Citation Index, the comprehensive scientific journal database that indexes virtually every citation a journal article gets in the peer - reviewed scientific literature, reveals that this paper, which Dr. Singer calls a «key research publication», has been cited exactly zero times, as of 2004 (for comparison, Dr. Steven Schneider's 1988 publication in Nature on the same topic, «Simulating the climatic effects of nuclear war», has gotten 16 citations).

Art Robinson is the founder of a group called the «Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine» (OISM), which markets, among other things, a home - schooling kit for «parents concerned about socialism in the public schools» and books on how to survive nuclear war.

One could also criticize the Harper government for its «war on science,» so eloquently described in Chris Turner's book of that name, or its egregiously misnamed and misconceived «Fair Elections Act,» which has been denounced by a roster of distinguished political scientists, or its cancellation of perhaps the best census in the world, again denounced by the experts, or the gutting of environmental legislation and the Department of the Environment.