Sentences with phrase «attacks against science»

There were legitimate debates between scientists working in this field about how reliable different kinds of proxy data are and what are the limits, what are the uncertainties, and then there were the dishonest attacks against the science.

Not exact matches

The rest of the COMPETES bill would severely lower authorized funding levels for the social and behavioral sciences, geosciences, and international activities at NSF — cuts that are in line with the committee's ideological stance that they play small roles in fostering innovation, bolstering the U.S. economy, and defending the nation against attack.

[F] ight back when necessary to defend your science against bad faith attacks, but the best defense here is a good offense.

Yong described the post, in a subsequent blog post of his own, as «a mixture of critiques of the science within the paper, and personal attacks against the researchers, PLOS ONE, the journal that published it, and me, who covered it.»

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

Leiserowitz also attributes the rise in conservative belief to a reduction of attacks against climate science and policy in Congress and on the campaign trail.

Researchers have even begun to test whether hydrogen sulfide can protect us against the damage associated with heart attacks and strokes (Science, 30 May 2008, p. 1155).

In summary, the problem seems to be that the circling of the wagons strategy developed by small groups of climate researchers in response to the politically motivated attacks against climate science are now being used against other climate researchers and the more technical blogs (e.g. Climateaudit, Lucia, etc).

He is the principal investigator of an NCI - funded, multi-million-dollar Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in ovarian cancer, and he is the principal investigator of a multi-million-dollar grant from the New York State Stem Cell Science program (NYSTEM) to pioneer a novel strategy of reprogramming human mature T cells and hematopoietic stem cells for generating sustained attack against ovarian cancer in patients.

«I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.

Mom Launches War Against Bestselling Book About Race, Science - Another day, another attack on a book.

Scientists should spent their time on science and not on defending themselves against attacks from politicians associated to the oil industry.

Jim: thanks so much for writing about the attacks against climate scientists so cogently and eloquently in «The Inquisition of Climate Science».

You can bet all WSJ attacks against you or the science were planted by one of these well - funded, Exxon subsidiaries.

He has not defended the science against the ongoing, withering and dishonest attacks.

My concern was in that the preponderance of attacks against the NIPPC reports seem to little to nothing to do with the science documented within, but rather the source of funding.

First, the campaign in the 1920s against Einstein's general theory of relativity provides an uncannily complete template for the conservative attack on climate science eight decades later.

She wrote Attack on Coal Will Not Save Lives, and as President of DDP below, supports many attacks against climate science, below.

And it is intensly political and involves all kind of attacks, conspiracies, and most importantly — almost no science, as well as ascribing ill - intent against those who have had a role in developing, or accept, the new paradigm.

I felt all this, and I wanted to fight the good fight against the dark forces, especially when I saw them attacking the part of climate science that I was personally associated with.

Mhyre has been very poorly mentored by climate «scientists» to commit illogical rhetorical attacks rather than upholding true science by exploring ALL models and testing them against ALL data.

Her ad hominem attacks of «climate denier» and «irresponsible» against Judith Curry are severely damaging climate science, nullifying Mhyre's arguments.

However, he received lots of attacks against him rejecting climate science by conservative Republicans.

Now, that integrated knowledge does not constitute a dogma, nor does defending the science against an onslaught of distortion, misinformation and personal attacks.

That said, I don't retract my main point which is that the Academy needs to take a much more vigorous line against the attacks on science and individual scientists which have become a pervasive feature of Australian political commentary.

She develops federal campaigns and strategies that ensure a robust defense against attacks on science and science - based policy.

He has spent much of his time as the chair of the House Science Committee going on the attack against climate scientists.

Such attacks are less about the science on offer from dissenters, and more to do with singling out those who go against the political consensus that the world is doomed unless we reduce our carbon footprint now.

Bart:» All I see is a propaganda campaign forming an attack on science by trumping up charges against a paper in Sscience by trumping up charges against a paper in ScienceScience.

Reacting against this rather miserabilist and dystopian worldview, the political right has increasingly adopted an outright denialist position — attacking the science in a covert war against the political ideology it has been co-opted to serve.

All I see is a propaganda campaign forming an attack on science by trumping up charges against a paper in Sscience by trumping up charges against a paper in ScienceScience.

They are also the most cynical since I know many know the science is garbage but love the emotionally based hate against private interests in the hopes attacking «big oil» or creating wealth redistribution schemes.

Environmental justice advocates say that the attacks on science represent irresponsible political malpractice against the people of the U.S. by officials who are sworn to uphold the public interest.

Reacting in outrage and disgust against the personal attacks leveled against them, and contriving to present their results in ways that could not be misread, the scientists had used phrases that their attackers twisted to support the claim that climate science was nothing but a politicized sham.

UCS set the record straight in several recent instances of misinformation about climate science, and fought back against deliberate attacks on climate scientists, including:

In which case, the attacks against the M&W paper is correct: the paper doesn't support the conclusion made of it, ignores the science completely, and reads more like a tabloid editorial than a research paper.

The public money actually set up for the defense of science against attack is, I venture, precisely zero in the US, and small elsewhere.

Schneider also wanted scientists to fight back against attacks on science.

... and, tempting as it may be to avoid facing our ignorance by engaging in ad hom attacks against others — quantum mechanics or no quantum mechanics — without experimental confirmation climate science has zero credibility.

As the 1990s progressed and the rear - guard action against restrictions on smoking faded, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition started receiving funds from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its «junk science» website began to carry material attacking climate change sScience Coalition started receiving funds from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its «junk science» website began to carry material attacking climate change sscience» website began to carry material attacking climate change sciencescience.

... a mounting, well organized, and well funded last, attack, a Battle of the Bulge if you will, against the science... Most don't accept the seriousness of the battle we are going to face here.

The ad hominem attacks we see here are a diversion from Monckton's science, and follow the Alinsky script: always personalize the attacks against the individual, and don't ever respond to what he is saying.

In fact, if you consider the rhetoric from the left, it's personal attacks against individuals who dare question the consensus «science» whereas the rhetoric coming from the right is largely, if not exclusively attacking the science itself.

Interestingly, he says»... the campaign in the 1920s against Einstein's general theory of relativity provides an uncannily complete template for the conservative attack on climate science eight decades later.»

Finding spies, preventing leaks and defending against attacks are harder problems, and are probably not ready for legislation quite yet, but «solved problems in computer science» can legitimately become a different kind of «code» any time now.