Sentences with phrase «because of scientific certainty»

It is perfectly legitimate to argue that that global warming has achieved such prominence not because of scientific certainty, but because of activism, and because of political environmentalism.

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According to reporting in Scientific American's sister publication Nature, minutes of the meeting show that the researchers were in fact much more circumspect, saying things such as «a major earthquake in the area is unlikely but can not be ruled out» and «because L'Aquila is in a high - risk zone it is impossible to say with certainty that there will be no large earthquake.»

For example, the NCFS found language such as «reasonable scientific certainty» to be meaningless and recommended that it not be used in court because it gives the false impression of scientific rigor.

If we don't recognize that our belief in scientific progress is a kind of faith, that is because these patterns take on a sense of certainty in hindsight.

I suppose, on reading it again, that you could construe what I said to mean that we should not act if we have full scientific certainty... but that's obviously not what I meant, because if we have full scientific certainty (as I pointed out in my examples of seat belts and condoms) we don't need the precautionary principle at all.

Once it has been established as a «fact», it doesn't matter what science says, because the doubt incubates the imagination better than certainty, and prohibits scientific expertise from undermining the power of the nightmare.

This interpretative function is important because, as researchers from the fields of science communication and science studies have shown, traditional notions of scientific authority, of the presentation of scientific certainty, and of science being the supreme method of understanding the world have been increasingly questioned.

The former can be said with a great deal of certainty because it relies on and a reality of scientific measurement and the statistical analysis of error bounds.

Yet she has to maintain her version of scientific certainty because if the public realises that there is a debate about how to respond to climate change, and a debate about how reliable forecasts are, her political manifesto simply has no currency.

The fact is that the HS didn't do much for environmentalism anyway — environmental politics remained the sport of the establishment, because it failed to find popular support; and scientific certainty was not needed for the creation of political institutions prior to the HS.

Republicans should «continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate» because otherwise, he warned, «[s] hould the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly.»

This is because the law requires proof of causation only on a balance of probabilities, whereas scientific or medical experts often require a higher degree of certainty before drawing conclusions on causation (p. 330).