Sentences with phrase «by flawed science»
«An overview of examples of where issues were driven by flawed science... such as... pesticides, asbestos, ozone depletion, acid rain and resource depletion.»
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Fueled by this flawed science, the latest whack - a-mole debacle is in Washington D.C., where the Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) suggests as part of a «Wildlife Action Plan» that TNR programs in the nation's capital should be «revisited.»
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I've been able to accommodate faith and science, at least to a degree by Paul's words about our flawed human understanding and seeing through a glass darkly..
Face it your book is written by flawed humans, who had no knowledge of science.
His junk science and pseudo-scientific misinformation was shown to be flawed by the APA and every major child welfare organization.
By the way, Hawking's book is a great example at how David's passionate view that Science is adjusted to reflect flaws and contradictions is nonsense.
I was amused by the comment by ntlPol101 who suggested that science, in changing it's theories over time, is somehow exposing a flaw in scientific reasoning.
Most people still cling to the old misguided «science» of saturated fats causing obesity and heat disease created by one flawed study and carried by the medical establishment and the media, enough to create a huge no or low fat industry that actually has contributed more to obesity and heart disease than any other dietary choice before.
Several questions in the 2010 survey addressed the «Climategate» controversy, which brought allegations of flawed science by researchers contributing to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
That group found that the tenure process was «unacceptably flawed,» according to the committee's confidential report, which was presented to the dean and obtained by Science.
Well, the diet that I recommend usually freaks people out initially, but it's rooted in sound science and facts, and not influenced by flawed studies funded by companies with ulterior motives.
1) VALUES Rooted in the modern science that fat gain and diabetes are NOT caused by character flaws.
SANE is rooted in the proven modern science (references, bibliography) that fat gain and diabetes are NOT caused by character flaws.
But that science has been replaced by growth mindset and evidence of the many flaws in the test.
Instead of finding some internal flaw that needs to be resolved, it's only by maintaining his trademark cool and returning time and again to science, that Watney is able to escape the Red Planet.
In brief: Classical Behaviorism and behaviorism as reorganized by BF Skinner and adapted by Karen Pryor and others has always aspired to be a science to be but its atomist / nurturistic roots were so narrow and flawed that it failed at the basic task that qualifies a «science».
Examining the ongoing campaign to eradicate Hawaii's outdoor cats, one soon discovers a familiar pattern: the rationale is often based on flawed science (often produced by government agencies).
It's a method that has flaws as some artists will be missing and other artists will get more attention than they really deserve, but any list compiled by anyone is flawed as lists are an art rather than a science.
I want to add another reason for flawed communications of climate science by scientists.
And the crescendo: ``... the subject paper... does not follow the scientific methodology of proof, it disagrees with observations, it is based on flawed referenced papers, and it utilizes a flawed science that is unrecognized by most of the world.»
However, it is not foolproof — a deeply flawed paper can end up being published under a number of different potential circumstances: (i) the work is submitted to a journal outside the relevant field (e.g. a paper on paleoclimate submitted to a social science journal) where the reviewers are likely to be chosen from a pool of individuals lacking the expertise to properly review the paper, (ii) too few or too unqualified a set of reviewers are chosen by the editor, (iii) the reviewers or editor (or both) have agendas, and overlook flaws that invalidate the paper's conclusions, and (iv) the journal may process and publish so many papers that individual manuscripts occasionally do not get the editorial attention they deserve.
The most fundamental flaw in Montford's book is his (as related by Stevie Mac) refusal to recognize that science is an ongoing process.
Following the all - too - familiar pattern, this deeply flawed paper was heavily promoted by special interests as somehow challenging the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate (an excellent account is provided by science journalist Dan Vergano of USA Today here).
On bad media: There has been plenty of misinformation and / or disinformation on climate disseminated by the media over the years — much of it related to the AGW point above (conflating all climate science with flawed examples, or mashing up meanings).
That first paper by Soon and Baliunas was so flawed I was able to figure it out, and I have zero skills WRT the technical side of climate science.
There's a troubling section, however, in which Mann creates a flawed dichotomy, hailing a paper by James Hansen and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University (and others) pressing for deep carbon cuts and criticizing a peer, * Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution, for complaining that the paper failed the Stephen Schneider / Gavin Schmidt test for distinguishing between the «is» of science and the «ought» determined by individual feelings about the state of the world and how to shape it.
The academies» statement is just the latest rejection of the conclusions by the paper's authors, led by Gilles - Eric Séralini, a scientist at the University of Caen who has long campaigned against genetically modified foods and attracted criticism for flawed science.
By fusing his pseudo science with the wild - eyed efforts of eco-activists, media dupes and pandering politicians, he's been able to convince the public that his flawed theory is actually holy writ.
In science, it is important to fully describe your methods (so that others can evaluate their efficacy, dangers, etc. and so that «even if your method is flawed», some of the value of the work can be preserved by corrections».)
Recent discoveries by Earth system science itself — the arrival of the Anthropocene, the prevalence of non-linearities, and the deep complexity of the earth's processes - hint at its inborn flaws.
You've already written about the flaws in peer review, but to be accepted by science an idea has to survive rigorous scrutiny by the professional scientific community.
I intend both to «follow the money» (flowing primarily from special interests opposed to regulation or taxation of greenhouse gas emissions) and to «follow the science» (by exposing the most egregious flaws in the «evidence» against the attribution of contemporary climate change primarily to human causes).
According to a critical review (PDF) by Bob Ward at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the GWPF pamphlet uses a «combination of misrepresentation, bad economics and fundamentally flawed science, and simply recycles erroneous allegations that were made, and debunked, six years ago.Science, the GWPF pamphlet uses a «combination of misrepresentation, bad economics and fundamentally flawed science, and simply recycles erroneous allegations that were made, and debunked, six years ago.science, and simply recycles erroneous allegations that were made, and debunked, six years ago.»
Re: «Once the UNFCCC treaty was a done deal,» The fatal flaw underlying today's orthodox IPCC «climate science» is the UNFCCC equivocation by redefining «climate change» from the historic scientific definition of a «change in climate» to:
There are many with a cursory understanding who believe they're discovered fundamental flaws in climate science that have somehow been overlooked or ignored by climate scientists.
We might have a post by Rud which seems sophisticated in its analysis (even if potentially analytically flawed) which is then followed up by his highly tribalistic comments related to the politics associated with climate change science.
Similarly we could be committed to 4C (absent geo - engineering or a major flaw in the science) by mid-century but will not see it for a while after that.
To bear witness to how damaging the flawed processes have been in climate science, I strongly recommend reading the refined essay by Professor Lindzen titled «Climate science — is it currently designed to answer questions?»
Republican donor David Herro is standing by Lord Lawson's UK climate change science denying charity — which he helped to fund — amidst allegations that its peer review process is flawed.
The frontpage implies that climate science to date has not been «real,» while the many errors made by the speakers as well as their serious credibility issues (Willie Soon's infamous paper, another paper more recently with Noah Robinson that made up data, Spencer's flawed book on climate sensitivity, Singer's history since about 1990, Schmitt's uncorrected error in a NASA paper, Bast and Taylor's lies in defense of Schmitt, and so on) suggest the opposite — the speakers at the ICCC are the ones attempting to falsify the science.
Sadly, as I've explored the issue in detail, my faith in «science» has been badly shaken by what I perceive to be the deliberate suppression of debate and the quick, unquestioning embrace of terribly flawed studies that happen to support AGW.
By Ben Webster The head of the UNâ $ ™ s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.
California is proceeding down this absurd emissions reduction path while the «science» supposedly supporting climate alarmism claims is crumbling with global climate models shown to be flawed and failed by climate scientist testimony before Congress and UN IPCC acknowledgements of the undeniable truth that it is impossible to create credible global climate models which, in fact, has been the case for the last 25 years.
The New American has published many stories over the years debunking the claim that there is a «consensus of science» on man - made global warming, particularly exposing the flawed and fraudulent studies by Naomi Oreskes and John Cook that have been cited innumerable times to manufacture the «97 percent of scientists agree» myth.
The Gergis team in Australia has been awarded what is said to be a top prize in Australian science (the «Eureka Prize») for the work that includes that fatally flawed, withdrawn, and never — seen - again paper that had been shredded by Jean S and Steve Mc, et al., at Climate Audit.
The authors note that Oreskes» methodology is further flawed because it also surveyed the opinions and writings of «nonscientists who may write about climate, but are by no means experts on or even casually familiar with the science dealing with attribution — that is, attributing a specific climate effect (such as a temperature increase) to a specific cause (such as rising CO2 levels).»
In both instances, I said that in my view the show's format was flawed in that it would put non-peer-reviewed, pseudo science conducted by largely unqualified non-experts alongside decades of genuine peer reviewed scientific research.
The authors note that Oreskes» methodology is further flawed because it also surveyed the opinions and writings of «nonscientists who may write about climate, but are by no means experts on or even casually familiar with the science dealing with attribution — that is, attributing a specific climate effect (such as a temperature increase) to a specific cause (such as rising CO
A statement on climate change issued by the vice-president of the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ), Professor Keith Hunter, has been described as «deeply flawed» in an Open Letter to the president of RSNZ by the chairman of the NZ Climate Science Coalition, Hon Barry Brill...
Without the work of Steve M. et al, there would be no debate; no skeptics, no counter to what is apparently an infant science, by default flawed.