Sentences with phrase «controversy over the science»

«This appears to be a carefully timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change when that science has been vindicated by three separate independent reviews and a number of studies.»

While controversy over the science requirements turned this lawsuit into another story about evolution and intelligent design for many in the media, the case is, in fact, about much more.

I was surprised to see the controversy over the science erupt in the 90s and early 2000s.

Not exact matches

Even the «Deflategate» controversy over the New England Patriots» inadequately inflated footballs and their effect on play was settled by data science.

The controversy will not be over the facts but over whether Behe has gone «outside of science» by attributing irreducible complexity in biology to «design» rather than to some undiscovered material (i.e., mindless) mechanism.

Fundamentalists have in the past sometimes considered both education and science to be works of the devil; this attitude, largely engendered by the controversy over evolution, is less common today.

His subject, as one might expect, was theology and the philosophy of science, and he argued that the biblical concept of the Holy spirit may provide the missing link, so to speak, in the controversy over whether mind or language has precedence in the creation of human thought.

Potocnik and the other 24 members of the European Union's leadership group were due to be sworn in on 1 November, but controversy over Italy's nominee for justice commissioner caused a delay (Science, 5 November, p. 959).

Still smarting from a controversy over the role of women in science, Harvard University President Larry Summers today gave his thumbs up to a plan which would pump $ 50 million over the next decade into creating a more diverse academic community at the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

«Discussing American science literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science clascience literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science claScience Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science clascience classroom.

The announcement, made today by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, ends a 2 - year search that became bogged down in controversies over the current director, Mariano Barbacid.

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********************************************************************************************************* The pit bull's unusual breeding history has produced some bizarre behavioral traits, described by The Economist's science editor in an article published a few years ago, at the peak of a heated British controversy over dangerous dogs that saw the pit bull banned in England.

Science on outdoor cats is fraught with controversy over the extent to which domestic cats affect wildlife.

If you don't know much about climate science, or about the details of the controversy over the «hockey stick,» then A. W. Montford's book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and politicalscience, or about the details of the controversy over the «hockey stick,» then A. W. Montford's book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and politicalScience might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and politicalscience, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power.

He could have nodded to the deep divisions over climate science and policies, but noted that much of the sense of controversy has come mainly because the hottest messages — unfolding catastrophe, manufactured hoax — get the most air time.

Climate change is possibly the science controversy of our time — opinions and viewpoints are all over the place.

One of my Pace University communication students, Martin Totlandt, spent much of the summer in South Africa and filed this «Your Dot» dispatch about the controversy over the process of chumming — luring sharks with a fishy, bloody brew spooned overboard — something done both for science and for adventure tourism cage diving operations.

This is because factors such as likeability and attractiveness are unlikely to survive the critical scrutiny they will encounter in a controversy as heated as that over climate science.

The controversy over the Karl et al. study flared up again in early February 2017 when the Daily Mail published an article by David Rose — who has often inaccurately written about climate science — based on a blog post by retired NOAA scientist John Bates, who maintained that the study authors failed to disclose critical information about their data.

by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Arizona Business Daily In the midst of the controversy over Arizona's net metering policy, one expert at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) suggests several policy reform strategies.

Climate Science Watch: «Some sources on the controversy over the hacked files from the UK Climatic Research Unit»

The controversy over the Institute of Physics biased submission to the U.K. Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee's investigation of the stolen emails from East Anglia's Climate Research Unit is about to get a whole lot hotter.

Many more flawed or misleading presentations of Global Warming science exist in the book, including those on Arctic sea ice thinning, correction of land - based temperature measurements for the urban heat island effect, satellite vs. ground - based measurements of Earth's warming, and controversies over sea level rise estimates.

Back in 2002, along with Steve Rayner, at Oxford University, I organized a panel at the American Association for the Advancement of Science on the controversy over Lomborg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Controversy over climate change, nuclear power, and gun control, among others, are all dominated by these macro science communication dynamics.

The Met Office study comes at a time when some have questioned the entire basis of climate science following recent controversies over the handling of research findings by the IPCC and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

As soon as the words left his mouth, America got another taste of its favorite false controversy: the one over whether climate change should rightly be placed under the rubric of «science» or «politics.»

All along, I have been saying that readers can make up their own minds about the manufactured controversy over ExxonMobil's climate science, but they should have all the facts.

Even despite public controversies over the inclusion of climate change in state science standards, «Americans overwhelmingly support teaching our children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming — in all 50 states and 3,000 + counties across the nation, including Republican and Democratic strongholds,» according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (April 11, 2018).

Virtually all of the controversies over climate science hinge on just how strong the various feedbacks may be — and on whether scientists may have failed to account for some of them.

More recently, controversies over minor errors in the 2007 assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have escalated the debate over the integrity of climate science.

As we know from other controversies over GM Crops and MMR, by the time science hits the headlines, and therefore the public consciousness, it's always about much more than the science.

Those PhD's then proceed to dwell on the manufactured controversies around the politics, as if J&J Public can meaningfully parse a 12 part series about the politics of science over morning coffee, further muddying the public perceptions of the objective reality we face by opening the discussion to opinion in the name of «balance».

«Both cases, as well as the broader international controversies over whaling and sealing in the context of which they arose, illustrate the persuasive power of the «appeal to science»: enlisting scientific objectivity and rigour to underpin the credibility of legal arguments and legal norms,» says the abstract.

Murray A. Straus, The Controversy over Domestic Violence by Women: A Methodological, Theoretical, and Sociology of Science Analysis, 3 (Family Violence Research Program of the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, 1998).