Sentences with phrase «contrarian voice»
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.
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At more than 800 pages of essays, reviews and uncompromising observations about art, history and subjects as particular as Dallas («very disagreeable») and psychology («the astrology of the mind»), the book, «Donald Judd Writings,» is aimed at adding Judd's singularly contrarian voice not just to the list of great artist - writers but also to the canon of American literature.
Contrarian voices occasionally claim that the scientific community is «divided» − but such division was not on show in evidence presented to the US Congress.
Nonetheless, a small but vocal group of contrarian voices exist — mainly outside the scientific community — who deny that greenhouse gases cause climate change or who dismiss the risk of adverse consequences.
Scoffing by contrarian voices can lead researchers to over-emphasise the inevitable scientific uncertainties, or over-react to claims of alarmism, or even adopt some of the contrarian language — chief of which has been talk of a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming in the 21st century.
A financial writer like no other, Jared Dillian is one of the industry's most original, entertaining, contrarian voices.
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.
Invited in May to join a new Canadian television station, I was supposed to be a contrarian voice on topics such as global warming and David Suzuki.
I was supposed to have been a contrarian voice on topics such as global warming and David Suzuki.
«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.»
«I am aware,» he began somewhat cautiously, «that CEI is regarded as a contrarian voice on the science of climate change.»
The public need to recognise that contrarian voices that deny the scientific consensus are a minority among the general public.