Sentences with phrase «accepting the consensus as»

If the media implies that there is a scientific consensus on some topic, then many scientists who have not looked at the topic for themselves will just accept that consensus as being valid, without checking for themselves.

Specifically, instead of accepting the consensus as the result of researchers independently converging on the same evidence - based view, it can be explained via the idea of a complex and secretive conspiracy among researchers.

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While there remained some isolated skepticism, GVT's result was accepted as the scientific consensus, and the «hot hand fallacy» was born.

Buying consensus and its evil twin, buying dysfunction, are so pervasive that many B2B professionals have come to accept it as the way things are; the status quo.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.

All accept the Qur» an and the sunnah (Muhammad's example) as foundational but differ on the importance of consensus in collective scholarly reasoning (ijma) and individual analogical reasoning (qiyas).

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

Many have been ready to accept this consensus of scholarly opinion on the date and authorship of the four Gospels, but have not realized the shattering implications of this concerning the status of the empty tomb story as historical evidence.

There is, however, no consensus as to exactly what physicalism means, partly because, as Kim points out, there «appears to be no generally accepted account of exactly what it means to say that something is «physical»» (SM 340).

The biblical theology to which he refers emerged after World War II as a consensus with certain characteristics: (1) the Bible is assumed to be relevant for modern men and women; (2) biblical criticism is to be accepted; (3) the message of the Bible is a unity, if a unity in diversity; (4) revelation is historical encounter rather than right doctrine; (5) the biblical (Hebraic) mentality is distinctive.

The easy assumption that the Church was just as it should be was never universally accepted, but central and western European society, «Christendom», had come to be based on a majority consensus that it was.

There is one prospect that has been accepted by most as the consensus WR1 in the draft, even after his poor combine performance: Calvin Ridley.

As the Nobel Committee pointed out and as Santos accepted, the prize should indeed be a tribute to the struggle to end the modern world's longest civil war — and an encouragement to those who hope for a lasting consensus among Colombia's divided peoplAs the Nobel Committee pointed out and as Santos accepted, the prize should indeed be a tribute to the struggle to end the modern world's longest civil war — and an encouragement to those who hope for a lasting consensus among Colombia's divided peoplas Santos accepted, the prize should indeed be a tribute to the struggle to end the modern world's longest civil war — and an encouragement to those who hope for a lasting consensus among Colombia's divided people.

Should the unthinkable happen, and Owen Smith be elected Labour leader, the party would lurch to the right ahead of the 2020 General Election in an attempt to triangulate both the Conservatives and UKIP, being tougher on welfare than the Tories, being tougher on migrants than the Tories, accepting the economic consensus as it is — regardless of how many people it left behind.

Phil — New Labour in 1997 showed one way to win over the suburbs, smaller towns and cities in the South, the East and the Midlands to Labour, and did so exactly as you say: by accepting the Thatcher economic consensus but promising a «fairer» society.

«Instead at about the time the elections was scheduled to begin we were informed that a list of 4,704 consensus candidates had been presented to and accepted by the Committee as Ward officers for all the 147 Wards in Zamfara State.»

The next year, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was publishing its second major assessment of climate science, Shell found itself in a delicate balancing act between accepting the scientific consensus and arguing that there was still too much uncertainty to dictate aggressive action.

Yet, the consensus appears to have accepted the current tepid economic environment as the new normal, affording a major scarcity premium to those companies that have demonstrated strong near - term revenue growth.

Does Richard Alley still believe that the LIA was characterized by NH temps falling 1 - 2C over an extended period as he did in 1998 while doing his paleo studies, or has he invalidated his own data and accepted the more consensus view (Gavin et al) that it was a far milder event (approx -.3) as stated in the op?

They are also facts which are simply accepted as a matter of course - about which there is a consensus.

The ones who were wrong had to accept that, or at least accept that the consensus held sway until such time as they had more evidence at their disposal it may be wrong.

As we documented in our paper, research has also shown that when people are aware of the expert consensus on human - caused global warming, they're more likely to accept the science and support climate policy to address the problem.

At first I accepted the «consensus» and did have deep concerns about the effects of anthropogenic contributions to our atmosphere, but as more and more true scientists began to speak up, as more and more real facts became available and as the transgressions of the IPCC and its government consensus makers became exposed, I became more conscious of the complexity of the issues.

It seems that most people accepted York's comments as tongue in cheek albeit with a (negative) twist of lemon as pertaining to the climate consensus / advocates.

Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin and many other conservatives accepted what was presented as a scientific consensus on «global warming», until the political agenda of the advocates became clear at Kyooto, Copenhagen, and finally the release of the CAGW manfesto called the SPM of the AR4.

Those who accept the consensus that the Earth is warming due to human activity (anthropogenic global warming or AGW) point to declining Arctic sea ice as one line of evidence to support this conclusion.

I am perhaps more familiar with students who would have less of a consensus view on just about any subject because of their contrarian nature, but one could receive these comments as simply too consistently negative to accept as having constructive value or as typical of someone the blog needs and be, well, either crushed or overwhelmed about what to do to obtain their approval and go into a defensive frenzy.

So it's all about intentions obfuscated by phony technical debates that large numbers of the public accept as validating a partisan science consensus.

The Journal of the American Statistical Association still publishes good papers supporting a skeptical / lukewarmist position (as does the AAAS's Science Magazine), but I expect that the board of the ASA has just raised the bar for accepting studies not supportive of the consensus.

The question is what will the consensus accept as falsified.

Forgot to add: DDT has a 1/2 life of a year or so, orders of magnitude different than the consensus modeling predicted and everyone accepted as gospel.

Over time Einstein's general theory has met all of these tests as a coherent theory which describes our observations of the universe and which is accepted by a strong consensus of experts.

Rather than imposing sound scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle to: «concentrate its activities on the tasks allotted to it by the relevant WMO Executive Council and UNEP Governing Council resolutions and decisions as well as on actions in support of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process» (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle to: «In taking decisions, and approving, adopting and accepting reports, the Panel, its Working Groups and any Task Forces shall use all best endeavours to reach consensus.»

As Mosher has pointed out in the past, if you accept Karl's conclusions, you also have to accept that the rate of warming was lower than the «consensus» was claiming.

The new target: Naomi Oreskes who last week found her research used as a foil by some lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to try and discredit the widely - accepted and growing view that there is a broad scientific consensus on the evidence of human - caused global warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions.

Ie I accept the IPCC consensus as being perfectly reasonable..

Second, you skipped the Roman warm period, and I am grateful that even the» the climate consensus community» accepts that the «so - called Holocene Climactic Optimum was indeed warmer than both the LIA» What you fail to note is peer review literature supports the MWP, the coolest of the three warm periods, as being as warm as today, and NO, the» the climate consensus community» did not even exist when this was known so they did not inform me of this.

And meteorology degrees may not even help, as they typically do not require coursework in climate change science — though of course that shouldn't stop meteorologists and weather communicators from accepting the consensus of their more rigorously climate science — focused colleagues.

I accept your explanation as a general position of consensus thought.

Lynas seems now to be questioning rather than accepting the «consensus» and that is what a writer and journalist should be doing but it is a slippery slope as every rock you turn over can have another nasty surprise.

In such cases they hope that people will accept the (purported) approval of others as a good reason to buy the product.The consensus argument is a weak one.

Everyone agrees with the consensus as defined by Cook et al — even prominent contrarians accept it.

Roger Pielke Jr. accepts most of the consensus IPCC positions, even calling for a carbon tax, and supporting Obama's proposed EPA regulations, but he's under fire as much as those who question everything.

They are misleading because as anyone with any familiarity with the field knows, the basic consensus is almost universally accepted.

Within a few years, after his unprincipled, unsupported and unscientific attacks on climate «sceptics», my opinion had changed, to what it is now, that he's the very model of an unthinking and ill - informed little s ** t. Presenting «evidence» that you haven't checked out yourself is both irresponsible and unscientific, as is accepting «current thinking» or some form of consensus without questioning it in any way.

And to stick with that case, if, armed with the iron sun and million - year - time flitches author as a prime source, you come to science blogs and call people cultists for accepting a scientific consensus, well, why doesn't «dittos» or «bozos» match that behavior?

That his work was accepted as mainstream illustrates the lack of consensus on how to even treat the problem economically.

For decades, climate scientists have wondered why their near - consensus on the existence and danger of global warming hasn't translated into government action, much less a public that accepts climate change as reality.

The pace of their development and capability has outpaced generally - accepted methodologies for their deployment — in part because no consensus exists as to the value of «Big Data.»

In that respect, it will be interesting to see what the National Assembly accepts as consensus and how it decides to act on the file.