Sentences with phrase «authority of science»

The cultural and intellectual authority of science depends critically upon its absolute neutrality in such debates.

In others, the apparent authority of science has made it hard to affirm in any sort of honest or authentic way the traditional creeds.

We also readily defer to the allegedly impersonal or objective authority of science — to those who say «studies show» instead of «I think.»

For both the students of science and of technology, the single question to hold on to, when confronted with the still powerful authority of science, and the compelling attractions of existing technologies, is: how could things have been different?

The political crisis that this disinterest might cause has been largely offset by borrowing the cultural authority of science — science as a weapon.

The planetary boundaries hypothesis may fall short as a scientific concept, but it excels as a political one, offering experts a way to couch what are really political decisions in the inviolable authority of science.

He saw that an era was ending in which the authority of science was almost unquestioned.

He wants to use a scientist's «bottom - up» approach to New Testament evidence to vindicate Jesus not only to his colleagues, but also to any agnostic reader who accepts the authority of science.

In Einstein's universe there is no fifth element, which means that there is no escaping the authority of science.

'» As Gordin documents with detailed examples, «individual scientists (as distinct from the monolithic «scientific community») designate a doctrine a «pseudoscience» only when they perceive themselves to be threatened — not necessarily by the new ideas themselves, but by what those ideas represent about the authority of science, science's access to resources, or some other broader social trend.

A: We will have to regain some of the authority of science.

These stories are really no different from the kind Driscoll tells, but the fashion nowadays is to put on our lab coats and speak with the authority of science, even when there is little actual science to back our claims.

Rather than truly relying on science, they are abusing the authority of science to exercise control.

It's a weighty - sounding bit of education - ese that carries the authority of science.

The Gates folks want to put on their lab coats and throw the authority of science behind a particular approach to teacher evaluation.

In this world, where the authority of science and empirical methods is being questioned and where even world leaders may brush aside uncomfortable facts as «fake news», it is increasingly difficult to know whose knowledge to trust.

Everyone these days has to cope with the authority of science — and not just those working in new media.

But today I'm here to talk about post-normal science, a kind of science where the quest to explain how our world works is replaced by a quest to use the authority of science and religion to achieve political goals.

«Confidence in the authority of the science of climatology is currently eroding in the public consciousness,» says Roger Pielke Jr., an American social economist and expert on natural disasters.

They can communicate the fruits of scientific labour and comment on them, but the spectre that they may speak with the authority of Science, forever damaging the reputation of scientists is misplaced.

What is most striking to me is that Sauven stresses all the time the alleged consensus position and authority of science.

Then he becomes chairman of an organization that uses the prestige and authority of science to advance a left - wing, activist agenda.

And it's not just protesters who are hiding behind the authority of science.

The authority of science stands behind him.