Sentences with phrase «back against science»

I was not turning my back against science, but against the dominant worldview derived from science called mechanism or materialism.

Not exact matches

Thousands of people joined a global March for Science with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an «assault on facts» by populist politicians.

I have nothing against religious people — but if you are regressive, and refuse to believe in science, you are a dead weight on our country holding us back from competing in the world.

... and this is why this country is so backwards and falling behind the rest of the post-industrial countries... and why is it that these... nuts... will use rules of evidence and «science» to back claims of biblical proof... but reject the same critria when it is used against them?

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

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Some researchers, though, are pushing back against these norms, believing that openness can promote constructive communication and enable science to move forward faster.

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

He also faced questions from Democrats and the committee's chairwoman, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - Alaska), about whether he would uphold the integrity of USGS science programs and push back against political pressure.

«This is too logical a transition for anyone to have an ideological argument against clean energy, because it stands against economic growth and good business sense,» says Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and science envoy for the U.S. State Department, who is attending the talks, «That's what people are saying here — they're incredulous that anyone would want to back off on this.»

In fact the science backs a plant based diet, the very one he speaks out against, to combat and / or reverse heart disease, cancer, obesity etc and on and on.

Over time, top nutritionists in the field and science - friendly fitness professionals began fighting back against this misinformation by explaining that food type has relatively little, if anything, to do with fat loss / muscle gain, and that calories and the macros that make up those calories are much more relevant.

A daring synthetic biologist who, after a car accident kills his family, will stop at nothing to bring them back, even if it means pitting himself against a government - controlled laboratory, a police task force and the physical laws of science.

Along the way, Green tells fascinating stories of teachers and researchers on a quest to create a true science of education — and pushes back against the notion that great teachers are born, not made.

While I do not know the motivation behind his animus against climate science, some other technophiles I know are horrified by the prospect that for a while the march of their pet scientific subject might have to take a back seat to survival.

Used as directed, DEET is considered safe by many public health agencies, and it is super effective against mosquitoes and ticks — but science - backed consumer watchdog Environmental Working Group (EWG), and others, are not so convinced about its safety.

Those who rail against the media for including too many voices of doubt in some stories on global warming science and policy might want to step back a minute and review the chart below, from last December, showing just how invisible coverage of climate is compared to the stories that make the cut each day.

Instead, as they see it, it's about science finally fighting back against a sustained assault by Koch - funded «denialists».

Two points: 1) An update on the Lamar Smith affair (which I continue to regard as a politically motivated witchhunt): «About 600 scientists and engineers, including former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have signed on to letters urging the head of that agency, Kathryn Sullivan, to push back against political interference in science.

The study — «Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus» — was published by Science magazine in June 2015 and pushed back against assertions from other research groups that found a pause in rising global temperatures from 1998 to 2012, which goes against climate change advocates» insistence that the earth's temperature has been on a steady incline for decades.

«Let's hope it never happens, but if we ever have our back against the wall we will know ahead of time what we need to do,» said Marcia McNutt, chair of the committee and editor in chief of Science magazine.

«I think you are now going to see the scientific community almost uniformly fighting back against this assault on science.

It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress, against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»

In April 1998, Art Robinson and his organization the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, along with the Exxon - backed George C. Marshall Institute, co-published the infamous «Oregon Petition» claiming to have collected 17,000 signatories to a document arguing against the realities of global warming.

Real USA science will face off against Fake science backed by Carlos Slim and the rest of Fake News Industrial Complex.

Normally in science, there's a push back from the establishment against such a profound change in our understanding of things..

The «backlash» against Judith is despicable and was in my view, coordinated in the very same way diatribes against non-compliant editors and reviewers were coordinated — by cabal with a vested interest in suppressing contrary views, especially where those views are backed by sound science.

Broad - brush character assassination against a host of unnamed (but readily identifiable) scientists: is this really the way you plan «to get the public perception of climate science back on track?»

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

Instead of «pushing back against the emerging scientific consensus» in the 1980s as claimed by the Post's editors, ExxonMobil was an active and public participant in that scientific process and helped to advance the science, something we continue doing to this very day.

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

The last few years have seen intensifying moves against the Obama administration's investments in climate science in hearings led by the Texas Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Lamar S. Smith, whose views on NASA and climate parallel those of Walker — built around the notion that NASA needs to focus on outer space, not back on Earth.

As far as I know, no action has been taken against the Calgary Foundation with respect to the Science Education Fund, even though it was clearly used for illegitimate purposes (funding FoS projects through the back door).]

Nevertheless, Mr Liebreich pushed back at the charge that he was «AGAINST climate science»: