Sentences with phrase «battles against science»

Not exact matches

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

Science author Simon Singh recently won a well - publicised battle against the British Chiropractic Association for an article he wrote, also for the Guardian.

An article in The New Yorker describes an endocrinologist's battle against a company's attempts to discredit his science

Researchers are making new strides in one of the most frustrating of medical science's battles, the war against Alzheimer's disease.

I believed that a multidisciplinary approach, firmly rooted in basic science, could make a important contribution in the battle against HIV / AIDS.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

For older education researchers, all calls to conduct formal experiments probably have a «déjà vu» quality, reminding them of a battle they thought they had won long ago — the battle against a «positivist» view of science that privileges the randomized experiment and its related research and development model whose origins lie in agriculture, health, public health, marketing, or even studies of the military.

Racing against time Ryan gets caught in a battle between hard science and fundamentalist religion that threatens his sanity, his freedom and his son.

First announced in 2007, Dead Space is a third - person shooter that merges spacefaring science - fiction and survival / horror to create a game in which the player (in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke) battles against reanimated human corpses aboard an interstellar space ship.

The days of being a geek constantly battling against a society that does nothing but mock comics, science fiction, anime and videogames is, for the most part, over.

Soldiers and huge mechs battle with and against each other in vast, science - fiction - themed maps, and all the while there's AI gnawing at your ankle.

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

Lord Monckton, one of the leading scientists battling against the «settled science», has just submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to determine how the U.K. Supreme Court has ruled to support climate change activism in specific legal cases before it.

Other favorites include The Secret History of the War on Cancer, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution, and Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health.

It is a state of mind that I would not call skepticism, because they are biased towards disbelief in conventional science and need only a small excuse to battle against the consensus.

... 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 faceBattle of the Bulge if you will, against the science... Most don't accept the seriousness of the battle we are going to facebattle we are going to face here.

This book is an important element of my campaign against the litigious Dr Mann - not just in the obvious sense that its profits go toward the cost of this legal battle, but in the more crucial sense that it's part of my pushback against the malign effects of his rotten science.