Sentences with phrase «confidence in science»

The process of science is to to test it's conclusions and continually refine models in order to determine the level of confidence in the science.

Some readers may have missed that the discussion was not about confidence in science as an enterprise, but confidence that benefits would always accrue to society from applications of scientific knowledge.

She recalls, in the past, teachers seemed to lack confidence in science and it wasn't a favourite subject for many of them.

The most important was renewed government confidence in science, reflected in increasing budget allocations.

Today, he hopes to help rebuild confidence in science.

Showing students how scientific concepts connect to things that they're passionate about allows them to gain confidence in science.

Since the partnership began, student achievement scores have experienced double - digit gains, and teacher candidates report greater confidence in their science pedagogy.

To begin with, there is the loss of confidence in science.

The real Yamal deception is their attempt to damage public confidence in science by making speculative and scandalous claims about the actions and motivations of scientists while cloaking them in a pretense of advancing scientific knowledge.

There's been a range of interesting reactions to my piece on Pete Seeger's question about whether confidence in science as a source of human progress is underpinned by fact or faith.

Do you you prefer the high levels of confidence in the science cited by the IPCC, and the «truth to power» pathway of the IPCC to the UNFCCC carbon stabilization treaty?

Would you agree your FOIA failures have given rise to scandal that has damaged confidence in science?

Midgley draws from sophisticated feminist critiques of science as sources of insight, particularly about power, and she acknowledges that the West has placed particular confidence in science.

John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man - made global warming, and that public confidence in science depends on more openness to varied opinions.

But a new scheme set up by the U.K.'s elite science academy, the Royal Society — in response to the crisis in public confidence in science triggered by issues such as BSE, genetically modified (GM) organisms, and cloning — is set to build bridges between politicians and scientists.

The spike in public confidence in science lasted just two weeks, though the heightened attention to the Zika virus persisted for six weeks.

The U.S. elementary teaching force continues to lack knowledge and confidence in science concepts (Fulp, 2002).

Blogosphere Can Improve Public Confidence in Science New Scientist says rather than retreat from debate about the science «in the name of spurious consensus» it needs to embrace it:

Its first task was to erode confidence in the science on which environmental concerns were based by arguing that the scientists had become politicised and were using their research, or allowing it to be used, to advance an anti-corporate political agenda.

Hill & Knowlton have undermined public confidence in the science around asbestos, lead, cadmium, the ozone hole, you name it.

Thomas M. Lessl, a scholar at the University of Georgia who has long studied the rhetoric and societal relationships of both science and religion, is well positioned to add to the recent discussion here over whether confidence in science as a source of progress is based on faith or fact.

Inspectors said some primary teachers lacked confidence in science and too few took up extra training in the subject.

In the weeks following the vaccine trial, there was «a significant, albeit short term, increase in an otherwise stable indicator of confidence in science,» the researchers said.

The Times of London had a blockbuster of an item in its reporting of ClimateGate: The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man - made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.

Literature riddled with trivial errors could even undermine public confidence in science.

Ok, can I have that little chat with Jesus, but still keep my better judgment based on my confidence in science and logic, which suggests that he wasn't divine, or do I have to trade in my better judgment and just accept that Jesus was divine on faith?

Perhaps, very few scientists today make such a claim so unambiguously, yet this confidence in science and technology and the instrumental, manipulative use of nature, is very much present in modern culture.

Your confidence in the science behind the messages will be strengthened and you will leave with exercises and activities to do with parents.

Sullivan said she is most concerned about the «apparent decline in society's confidence in science as an enterprise of special value to society and of scientists as respected and trustworthy people.»

The drive to curb carbon emissions has waned further in the wake of financial meltdowns, global instability, and slumping public confidence in the science of climate change.

At the same time, research ethics and transparency in medicine are a pivotal element to restore and cement the public's confidence in science, says Jimmy Volmink, a member of the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP) Executive Committee.

The Synthetic Biology Project was launched in 2008 to ensure that, as synthetic biology moves forward, public confidence in the science and applications remains high, policymakers are informed, and any risks are minimized.

This article is not really sober, jumping from glaciers length to the french society's confidence in science, from the snowball earth to Svensmark, and so on.

How can the public's confidence in science be strengthened?

The marketing (a term I do not use lightly) of the models, before validation, seriously undermines the public's confidence in the IPCC and if they are wrong will so undermine the public's confidence in science that it may take generations to recover.

Here's Allenby on Seeger's conclusion that confidence in science as en endless source of progress is based on faith: Read more...