Sentences with phrase «controversial theories of»

Especially in the early stages of controversial theories of great generality, and in the decision to abandon a well - developed research programme in favour of a promising but undeveloped new one, the assessment is an act of personal judgment.

In a boost for a controversial theory of aging, mice engineered to make a human protein that sponges up cell - damaging molecules live 19 % longer than other mice.

If three sightings make a trend, then a controversial theory of high - temperature superconductivity may have become a little more chic.

DHS's faith in the technology is based on the controversial theory of malintent, developed in 2007 by clinical psychologist and FAST research consultant Daniel Martin.

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A clinically extensive and mathematically powerful study of 1000 families with one autistic child and one unaffected sibling has validated a controversial theory of autism's complex genetic causation.

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Gordon bases his views on a modernized version of a controversial market theory first promulgated in the 1920s by Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev.

In a span of four days, a controversial former police chief's theory linking the FBI's Russia investigation and the Florida school shooting made its way to the president of the United States» Twitter account, where he shared it with his 48 million followers.

This is somewhat famous as its adoption as an axiom was somewhat controversial, and moreso because it took some great mathematicians to prove that the Axiom of Choice is actually independent of the other axioms of set theory.

I also attacked Roe v. Wade for «finding a highly controversial moral theory» this time of radical individual autonomy» in the «due process» provision,... with little effort to justify the decision by the traditional standards of constitutional reasoning.»

@Ed What was objectionable in your earlier statement is that you were implying that while gravity is a known fact that is still less than 100 % understood (hence the term «theory of gravity»), evolution is somehow controversial within biology and is called a theory for some very different reason.

Utilizing hegemonic theory while controversial has provided a positive utility in the context of this intervention.

This is exactly what a couple of meteorologists claim in a controversial new theory that questions our fundamental understanding of what drives the weather.

Turin's more controversial theory, put forth in 1996 and now the subject of two popular books, holds instead that odorant receptors sense the way a molecule's atoms jiggle.

In 1858, he prompted one of the most famous and controversial events in the history of science: the hurriedly arranged reading of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection at the Linnean Society of London.

It has been 150 years since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, yet in some ways the concept of evolution seems more controversial than ever today.

That is a controversial suggestion, and one that will be music to the ears of those who think that evolution can occur via heritable epigenetic mechanisms, and that standard evolutionary theory needs to be broadened to include such processes.

But fruit flies have now distinguished between two molecules with identical shapes, providing the first experimental evidence to support a controversial theory that the sense of smell can operate by detecting molecular vibrations.

A controversial new theory claims fear of infection makes the difference between democracy and dictatorship.

The author reports myths as facts with no documentation, and the one theory he does document, Ray Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia, is perhaps the most controversial in the transsexual community.

The more controversial one involves abandoning the central tenet of standard cosmology, the big bang theory, which holds that the Universe was born in a gigantic explosion...

Now there is a controversial new theory: These key innovations started out at the ends of ancient chromosomes.

From her insights she has forged a bold, if still controversial, theory of «core knowledge,» which asserts that all humans are born with basic cognitive skills that let them make sense of the world.

She believes Larson invited her to collaborate precisely because of her controversial theory, and her perspective.

But first, William Shockley shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and he later became a controversial, even despised, figure with his theories of eugenics and intelligence.

The Belgian paleontologist has studied the remains of other older canids in Eurasia and believes some of them were early dogs — a controversial theory, but one this new research suggests may be correct.

One controversial theory posits that giant planets might not need rocky cores if they form directly from unstable whorls of gas in the nebula around a young star.

The theory is controversial; indeed, it challenges the viability of the climate models currently in use.

Findings from the study support a controversial theory proposed in the 1940s that the emergence of new body shapes in groups of species could result in a surge in their evolution.

If the analysis holds up, it supports the controversial out - of - Africa theory that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa before migrating to other continents.

The very idea of string theory and the multiverse is still controversial.

In the early 20th century quantum physics emerged, with its seemingly counterintuitive and sometimes controversial science, including the notions of superposition (the theory that a particle can be located in several places at once) and entanglement (particles that are deeply linked behave as such despite physical distance from one another).

«Support for controversial Darwin theory of «jump dispersal».»

In the past decade or so, evidence has been mounting for a controversial theory that rogue proteins, known collectively as amyloids and associated with diverse neurodegenerative diseases — from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's and Huntington's — might share some properties of prions, including their transmissibility.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

By the early 1980s, the DMT theory of psychosis was largely abandoned when psychedelic research involving humans became too controversial.

On the 11 - member panel are several veterans and six physician - scientists, including a well - known advocate for this controversial theory: Epidemiologist Robert Haley of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

This adds evidence for the controversial theory that seafaring people used a coastal route to move from Asia to North America at the very end of the last ice age, which ended 11,700 years ago.

[7] It has been suggested that the end of this ice age was responsible for the subsequent Ediacaran and Cambrian Explosion, though this theory is recent and controversial.

This order is intuitive and reflected in many features of academic life, but whether it reflects the «hardness» of scientific research — i.e., the extent to which research questions and results are determined by data and theories as opposed to non-cognitive factors — is controversial.

In Beyond Biocentrism, stem cell pioneer Robert Lanza, writing with astronomer Bob Berman, presents a lucid tour de force of his thrilling but controversial theory that consciousness creates reality and the cosmos itself.

A lot of Freud's ideas, while controversial / disregarded in the medical arena, still have a certain potency in literature and literary theory.

As you might suspect, this metabolic theory of cancers is controversial in the mainstream cancer paradigm, but there's already promising initial evidence to support it, and most traditional cancer specialists concede that this metabolic theory has merit, and it may be a piece of the puzzle.

[5] Though the free radical theory of aging remains controversial, oxidative stress contributes to degenerative conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, hypertension, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, muscular dystrophy, and more.

A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the maintheory of evolution is too controversial for American What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainTheory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the maintheory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainstream

Yet with relatively brief content concerns, (including some disturbing images of specimens, decaying or dying animals, brief buttock nudity and the use of a highly addictive drug), Creation offers a springboard for examining one's own attitude toward the controversial naturalist and his theories.

From Academy Award nominated director Stephen Frears (of The Queen, Philomena) and producers Working Title (The Theory Of Everything, Everest, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstronof The Queen, Philomena) and producers Working Title (The Theory Of Everything, Everest, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance ArmstronOf Everything, Everest, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstronof the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstronof one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstronof the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstrong.

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, Israeli filmmaker Ada Ushpiz's probing documentary profile, is as provocative and controversial as Arendt's own relentlessly challenging observations and theories.

Anonymous revives the controversial notion that the Earl of Oxford served as Shakespeare's ghostwriter, in spite of a plethora a problems with that generally - rejected theory, starting with the fact that when the Earl died in 1604, ten of the Bard's plays were yet to be published.

From Academy Award - nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) and producers Working Title (The Theory of Everything), comes the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history, Lance Armstrong.

PARKLAND side steps the familiar and controversial conspiracy theories of past television and film work for a look at the ordinary folk drawn in to the immediate events following the shocking assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the fateful day in Dallas, Texas 1963.