Sentences with phrase «as junk science»

The forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families was predicated on notions of biological racial purity to «absorb the half - castes into the white population» — a devastating intergenerational policy based on what today would be dismissed as junk science.

In those cases, yes, their results should be treated as junk science.

Until they do it should be treated as junk science.

I said that the CRU results should be treated as junk science because they have refused to release their data and code.

In matters of litigation, research or testimony that does not reflect, or indeed violates, standard scientific practices is excluded from the record as Junk Science.

My testimony has never been excluded as Junk Science.

Cat advocates have fiercely denounced the study as junk science, as if the Smithsonian and wildlife service have no credibility.

Some advocates have criticized such studies as junk science.

I wouldnt take my dogs off TOTW but if price is a concern, this is the same price as junk Science Diet and Iams so youre much better off with the 4Health for the money.

You can let them know that you think it's a great idea to be judged on what Diane Ravitch and the American Statistical Assiciation regard as junk science.

Not exact matches

We use science in our daily lives and actual scientific proof for almost everything we do in life, but we accept an imaginary friend such as God as the absolute truth and want to make everyone eat that junk like it's the universal truth.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Our science kits - I majored in physics in university, and the Walter Kraul science kits that we carry from Germany are absolutely inspirational; they are about a hundred times better than any of the «Follow Step 1 -2-3» and discard a hunk - of - junk in - a-flashy-box science kits you'll find out there, as they offer dozens of different ways to explore and think about what you've built or what you're observing, with excellent booklets with probing questions, offering different levels of explanation or exploration, depending on the child.

He dismissed studies exposing the dangers of second - hand smoke as «junk science,» and said that as long as tobacco is legal, smokers should not be attacked.

Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.

The only major news outlet to pick up on the story, though was Fox News, whose report by «Junk Science» columnist Steve Milloy here arguably represents a new low in propaganda masquerading as science journalism.Milloy does not mention that Esper et al is an opinion piece, not a research aScience» columnist Steve Milloy here arguably represents a new low in propaganda masquerading as science journalism.Milloy does not mention that Esper et al is an opinion piece, not a research ascience journalism.Milloy does not mention that Esper et al is an opinion piece, not a research article.

As Michigan Tech made it clear they want nothing to do with Heartland's junk science, Harvard University again confirmed that career climate denier and Heartland contractor Willie Soon has no formal affiliation with the school beyond office space on their campus.

This article is five screens full of junk science, fear mongering, and plainly bizarre advice such as the quote above.

The more healthy foods you introduce little by little, the more you will start losing the taste for junk food — there is a whole science behind this method, but I just wanted to make it as simple as possible.

Looks can often be deceiving, as RoboCop is, underneath the junk cinema exterior, one of the more intelligent and savvy thrillers of the science fiction genre, perhaps only bested by The Terminator in terms of blending intelligent, complex sci - fi with all - out supercharged action.

I answered some junk mail and had them sending me classics (Moby Dick, etc.) as well as signed first edition of science fiction.

But the results don't appear to be «junk science» either as some would attest.

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

I understand your frustration, and I don't doubt that some of this is automated, e.g., syndicated, but I would hesitate to call it «professional grade,» that is, unless you are thinking of Junk Science as professional grade, which I might very well grant you.

Today, science is typically portrayed as self - correcting, but it took decades for most evolutionary biologists to disassociate themselves from the junk science of eugenics.

By the way, if you guys really believe that, as an expert told you, «newspapers essentially never use op ed space for op eds directly rebutting other op eds,» then maybe it'd be better to offer to engage the denialists» larger themes anyway: their junk science, their tarring of you all as «alarmists,» their idea that what's genuinely alarming is really only the concoction of a «science - journalism complex.»

Proponents of one side say man's industrial progress is hurtling Earth toward a tragic demise, while opposing experts dismiss their findings as nothing more than junk science.

Prominent global warming advocates Michael Mann and Tom Wigley then tried to smear Soon as hard as they could so he wouldn't publish, reports Junk Science

He has spoken often for DDP, on such topics as global warming in courts, the litigation epidemic, that litigation and junk science helped bring down the World Trade Center, and that great thinkers are almost entirely created via home schooling.

I suggest that you actually read a few dozen of these studies before dismissing them as speculation or junk science.

Note how he just comes right out and admits what everyone already suspects to be the case: that his slurring of climate science as «junk science» is rooted in nothing more scientific than his understanding of which side his bread — and Cody's — is buttered on.

Steve Milloy of Junk Science is linking to O'Sullivan and identifying him as affiliated with RFE / RL.

While President Bush's recent public statements seem to indicate that he may also be falling for global warming junk science so far, he's only for voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as «technology - based solutions.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

ACSH poses as an independent science - based organization devoted to outing «junk science,» but consumer advocates have called it «a consumer front organization for its business backers» that «glove [s] the hand that feeds it.»

And a growing body of high - quality scholarly research finds that subsidies for efficiency cost twice as much as their benefits — a finding that NRDC and its allies actively seek to deny with junk science.

It's also a fools errand for skeptics to invest too much in the «Pause» either because it is validating junk science observations as it is criticizing them.

I've discussed the subject with family members that were at one point dead certain that AGW was «only a theory» and was wildly overstated if not «junk science», but who grasped the relevant issues relatively quickly and revised their opinion as they went along.

Scientific predictions are only as good as the science behind them, if you put junk data in you get junk results, hardly scientific at all, it's a bogus belief system that calls itself science and like all such systems it requires ardent blind followers to keep the fires of the faith burning without ever questioning anything no matter how utterly absurd.

As much as I dislike James Hansen's activism based on junk science, I have to admit that he understands the power issue, and agree with his support for nuclear power as a way to maintain civilizatioAs much as I dislike James Hansen's activism based on junk science, I have to admit that he understands the power issue, and agree with his support for nuclear power as a way to maintain civilizatioas I dislike James Hansen's activism based on junk science, I have to admit that he understands the power issue, and agree with his support for nuclear power as a way to maintain civilizatioas a way to maintain civilization.

These uni-dimensional junk science professors are confident in their intellectual abilities to continue getting away with indulging in their idle speculations and spreading their flapdoodle about things that have proven to be untrue; and, they demand that we appoint them as elites to rule over the rest of us despite a complete absence of supporting evidence for their many predictions that have been falsified by real - world observations.

His main claim to fame, however, was as the junk - science arbiter at the head of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (later Center)(science arbiter at the head of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (later Center)(Science Coalition (later Center)(TASSC).

The recent listing of polar bears as «endangered» was based on junk science and GIGO computer models that claim manmade global warming will send the bears» record population numbers into oblivion.

Yet they collude by embracing trendy, rigid, group hysteria inflamed, secular religions such as this latest one, courtesy of paid advertising professionals flogging what is often unquestioned junk science.

So true... Fear of global warming has been great for academia and the Left from the beginning because it, «makes industry and capitalism look bad while affording endless visuals of animals and third - world humans suffering at the hands of wealthy Westerners,» as Van Dyke noticed, plus: «Best of all, being driven by junk - science that easily metamorphoses as required, it appeared to be endlessly self - sustaining.»

Those who point out the problems of making arguments for policy on the back of PR stunts and junk science are labelled as «sceptics» or «deniers», motivated by profit, «ideology» or simple bad - mindedness rather than the desire for a sensible debate about our relationship with the natural environment and concern about development.

as an unwashed mass, I can't help but comment about John Cook «this course examines science of climate change denial» oh great, a new junk science I can't believe anyone takes this seriously SkS puts up a post and 2 people comment CE gets 300 comments before noon (most of them readable and informative)

«JunkScience.com director Steve Milloy also has been prolific in his criticisms of hormone disruptor junk science, «as this excellent article explains.

Scientists are as much victims of fashion as ordinary mortals are — a fact illustrated by the rich history of junk science and false alarms of the last 30 years.

It would be nice to think that having narrowly escaped being written off by future historians as yet another of those junk science eco-loons who helped foment what I describe in my book Watermelons as «the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history», Nurse will now stick to what he knows best: proper, falsifiable, empirical science — as opposed to post normal science and left - leaning activism.