Sentences with phrase «best available scientific data»

Those judges must rely on what lawyers assert are «the best available scientific data».

The idea of evidence - based medicine has grown out of the need to apply the best available scientific data to patient treatment.

«While we fully understand that policymakers must integrate the best available scientific data with other factors when developing policies, we think it would be unfortunate if policymakers became the arbiters of scientific information and circumvented the peer - review process,» the AAAS Board says.

Not exact matches

If you want to make the best scientific inference you can make, based on the data you have available where would you look?

Information given will be based on the best available scientific evidence and data sources.»

In the age of increased consumer access to scientific findings, it is imperative that public health information and recommendations are based on the best available data.

We can ensure that the best scientific data and technologies are used in public policy decisions by maintaining our free and open society and press and by drawing on the best available public and private sector resources.

A whole set of data has come out of this — which is now to available to the scientific community — which will be significant for research into mammalian biology as well as the study of human illness mechanisms.

With very little scientific data available about the new strain, the MIT researchers stress the need for better surveillance to track the outbreak and to help scientists to determine how to respond to this influenza variant.

For example, there is a lot of interest on collaborative team science, study registration, stronger study designs and statistical tools, and better peer review, along with making scientific data, analyses and protocols widely available so that others can replicate experiments, thereby fostering trust in the conclusions of those studies.

The status and management of the fisheries is reviewed annually by the Scientific Committee and its specialist working groups using the best available science and information, including detailed data from the fisheries and fishery surveys, and the CCAMLR Scheme of International Scientific Observation (SISO).

«Whittling down guesses or extrapolations from limited observations by a factor of 10 or even 100 does not make these estimates any more credible, and the fact that they are the best available data is not sufficient to justify their use when the consequence may be extermination for cats... What I find inconsistent in an otherwise scientific debate about biodiversity is how indictment of cats has been pursued almost in spite of the evidence, and without regard to the differential effects of cats in carefully selected, managed colonies, versus that of free - roaming pets, owned farm cats, or truly feral animals.

Current debate in veterinary medicine concerning issues related to vaccine efficacy and safety, as well as the duration of immunity induced by the currently available vaccines, underscores a compelling need for more objective and scientific data.

This action was based on a review of the best available scientific and commercial data, which indicated that the species is no longer in danger of extinction, or likely to become so within the foreseeable future.

«Alternative scientific views» must take the evidence into account and be able to explain the observed direction, magnitude, and pattern of trends (or potentially be able to do so as more data becomes available) at least as well as the prevailing hypothesis to be considered true alternative explanations.

The peer - reviewed report incorporated and summarized the best available scientific and commercial data to date.

Second, Director Hall will issue guidance to Fish and Wildlife Service staff that the best scientific data available today can not make a causal connection between harm to listed species or their habitats and greenhouse gas emissions from a specific facility, or resource development project, or government action.

«The High Cost of Fear,» a new in - depth Environmental Progress report, uses publicly available data, the best - available peer - reviewed scientific research and simple methods to calculate economic and environmental impacts of a nuclear phase - out in South Korea.

This measure is available for the US from the BEST data set... The reconfirmation now of a strong sun - temperature relation based specifically upon the daytime temperature maxima adds strong and independent scientific weight to the reality of the sun - temperature connection... This suggests strongly that changes in solar radiation drive temperature variations on at least a hemispheric scale... Close correlations like these simply do not exist for temperature and changing atmospheric CO2 concentration.»

In such case for proper scientific analysis it is better to rely on good quality data where available and proxy data for historical reconstructions — like for instance satellite data & ice core data.

• How can you ensure that the Agency's rulemakings will be based on the best available, and most up - to - date, scientific data?

In the coming weeks, we will make a series of inquiries to ensure EPA's process governing the development of the endangerment finding is open and transparent — and that the Agency considers all view - points, and makes use of the best available, and most up - to - date, scientific data.

The consensus scientific view is the best we can do at any given time, given the available data and our understanding of it.

The original Petition was substantially based on a major peer - reviewed 2016 scientific paper by James Wallace, John Christy and Joseph D'Aleo (Wallace 2016) that analyzed the best available temperature data sets and «failed to find that the steadily rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations have had a statistically significant impact on any of the 13 critically important tropical and global temperature time series data sets analyzed.»

Statistic analysis considers the data independently from any underlying theory but any good scientific analysis will use the best available theory.

The Endangered Species Act directs the Services, at the time they list a threatened or endangered species, to designate «any habitat of such species which is then considered to be critical habitat» where prudent and determinable, and based on the best scientific data available.