Sentences with phrase «common denominator science»

RE «Flannery is quite critical of the IPCC process, describing it as «lowest common denominator science» and claiming that it must be assumed that things are likely to be worse than are described in those reports.»

Flannery is quite critical of the IPCC process, describing it as «lowest common denominator science» and claiming that it must be assumed that things are likely to be worse than are described in those reports.

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Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted observation and direct verification of theories by the «facts.»

World - class science is another common denominator and indeed there is already significant co-operation, and numerous exchange programmes, between the two countries.

In science's search for the essential and the lowest common denominator, there were the significant late 18thC advances in optics and color theory.

Try to find a least common denominator on the science, rather than trying to convince people the physics is arguable.

I do agree that his description of the IPCC process as «least - common - denominator» science is wholly unwarranted.

The latter sees science reduced to the lowest common denominator for the purpose of extrinsic social - engineering ambitions it would seem.

In each of these examples, the common denominator is relationships of love and connection — and now, groundbreaking science is shedding more light on the neurobiology of love and connection as they relate to recovery.