Sentences with phrase «by contrarian voices»

«The notion of a «pause» or «hiatus» demonstrably originated outside the scientific community, and it likely found entry into the scientific discourse because of the constant challenge by contrarian voices that are known to affect scientific communication and conduct.»

The authors highlight an important problem: how climate scientists have been influenced in their work by the public debate, to the extent of even inadvertently adopting a rhetorical framing created by contrarian voices from outside science.

Not exact matches

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

By using the platform for shit - talking, antagonizing other art world figures, and generally embodying the character William Powhida, any critical distance between life and work slowly eroded into a kind of generic oppositional and contrarian voice.

(Beder, 1998) • Amplify the voices of contrarian scientists, (Cooler Heads Coalition, created by conservative think tanks) Dunlap and McCright, 2011: 151) • Convince people that «using fossil fuels to enable our economic activity is as natural as breathing.»