Sentences with phrase «battles over science»

«Eduard Kolchinsky» by Nathaniel Gold The United States is in the midst of a partisan political battle over science.

Joe Bast and his libertarian think tank are a major force among climate sceptics — but they just can't win the battle over science.

Not exact matches

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

In the light of the battles which have been fought over the Bible and science, perhaps this omission should be seen as an act of Providence.

Within each, he traces how Reformation battles over the criteria for determining the true meaning of Scripture and the proper definition of doctrines shifted authority to natural science, politically ordered confessional institutions, privatized choice, material aggrandizement, and a social - knowledge system finally untethered to religious categories and rationales.

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), whose goal is to create «battle - winning technologies» for the Ministry of Defence, has registered a 17 % increase in experiments on pigs, rabbits, monkeys and rodents over the last two years.

Congressional Democrats and Republicans have waged repeated battles over funding for earth science research at NASA, with Democrats wanting more and Republicans less.

The planned closures were the first casualties in a battle over the future of science at the venerable institution.

«NOAA has an incredibly important part to play in the ongoing battle over climate science,» says Rosenberg.

In waging a nasty public battle over CRISPR, the protagonists have given science a black eye for the reason Swanson suggested on that long - ago night in Marin County: money and glory.

Science writer Ronald Bailey tracks neo-Malthusians in his book The End of Doom (St. Martin's Press, 2015), starting with Paul Ehrlich's 1968 best seller The Population Bomb, which proclaimed that «the battle to feed all of humanity is over.»

Prewitt, president of the Social Science Research Council in New York, would succeed Martha Farnsworth Riche, who resigned last January after years of battling Congress over the issue of statistical sampling.

And science could also become a counterweight to diplomatic battles with China over trade if the new administration wants to find common ground with the Asian power.

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.

A major battle over the future of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art appears to be coming to an end, according to statements released on Tuesday by the prestigious Manhattan college's Board of Trustees and a coalition of professors, alumni, and students who sued in 2014 to block the board's plan to start charging undergraduate tuition.

A state judge approved a settlement on Wednesday that ends a bitter legal battle over tuition at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, allowing the college to charge students in the short run while developing a plan for returning to its traditional tuition - free model.

While science, in retrospect, is sometimes perceived as an orderly climb toward understanding, the trajectory is determined through a sustained battle over the quality of evidence and analysis.

The Climate Reality Project, a group overseen by Al Gore, is trying to win over public opinion by getting people to spread accurate global warming science in the comment sections of news stories online, where the battle rages with particular ferocity.

But the battle of the science is over, at least as far as the scientists are concerned.

Environmentalists, just as in a battle over a new runway, are being as partisan in their use of science as their opponents.

But right now, the battle over the policies is being fought in a proxy war over the science, which is pointless.

New Mexico's Public Education Department (PED) did a disservice to New Mexico's students, and the taxpayers who fund schools, last week when it caved in to climate extremists in the battle over how to teach climate science in the state's schools.

As leaders of the industrialized world continue to squabble at home over how to address the threat of climate change — and even as they battle internal factions who don't believe the science of climate change — one group of leaders has come out in favor of swift, comprehensive action to prevent global catastrophe.

A years - long battle over whether Idaho would require its science teachers to teach about global warming was resolved Thursday when the State Senate education committee voted to adopt standards that included sections on human - caused climate change.

[That whole attack on «Post-Normal Science» over the last year was such a battle with their own reflection.

The lobbying battle over the EU 2030 climate and energy will keep unfolding over the coming months, extending to a new Parliament and a new Commission and it is crucial that Europe's decision - makers set the goals for the continent according to what science requires and to the principles of climate justice, and not to the wishes of big business.»

Schneider was influential in the public debate over climate change and wrote a book, Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate, about his experiences.

The point was tipped when Big Oil prevailed over science in the battle for the hearts and minds of policy makers in North America.

Yet, much like with the Pennsylvania victory in the battle over teaching evolution, I can only manage a half - hearted cheer at this latest triumph of science over superstition and ignorance.

Each typically involves disputes over science and often results in a battle of expert witnesses.