Sentences with phrase «debate on consensus»

Therefore to me the debate on consensus is over.

These issues and many more are hotly debated on consensus and skeptic websites and blogs.

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The last Scaling Bitcoin conference drove down the price of bitcoin as the trading community saw a lack of progress in reaching consensus on the block size debate.

We have often covered the controversies surrounding block size debate, a possible fork on the bitcoin network, and the inability of miners to reach clear consensus in the past.

Conflicts that have arisen from ecumenical dialogues lead to a debate on the legitimate degree of unity and diversity, as well as the status of consensus or convergence texts and an ecumenical methodology.

Instead of working to achieve consensus on contested theological and moral issues, legislatively driven agendas are designed to end debates by reducing the issue to two sides and then enacting one side into church policy and ecclesiastical law.

The principle of respectable debate is based on some confidence in the capacity of free minds to come to the truth, and on a distrust of authoritarian shortcuts to consensus and uniformity.

Hence I view the debate of why player is world class and which one is not as just a farce because there will never be consensus on it.

@ Ny Gunner, if i offended you by saying your opinion is not encouraging fans to believes they can do something, i am sorry no body is an emblem of knowledge here and we are debating for a panel to judge on the best point mostly we are all right by consensus that we want changes.

1) On the traveling topic, this has been debated ad nauseum in the blogotwittersphere, and the consensus, which I agree with, is that his stepback is usually not a travel.

The ongoing debate about which is the best defensive midfielder that Arsenal could buy this summer as backup to our new central general Francis Coquelin, and the consensus up'til now has focused on the Southampton star Morgan Schneiderlin, but today it is being reported that his Saints team - mate Victor Wanyama has publicly announced his desire to move to the Emirates.

To conclude, the quotes that Keith Vaz fed to the press regarding the report encapsulate the nature of the political debate in the country, in particular the consensus between the main parties in terms of stated political goals and values on immigration.

Coalition policy was to seek a consensus on House of Lords reform and I think it's pretty clear to anyone watching this debate that they failed to achieve a consensus.»

But the consensus around European issues in general tends to reduce the temperature of debate on the Belgian political landscape — and the fact that, for the first time, federal, regional and European elections will be contested on the same day makes the European parliamentary elections less visible to most people.

On the contrary the UK remains at the heart of every major international debate and our influence as consensus builders is recognised worldwide.

Last week Commons leader Harriet Harman said there would be a full day's debate on the 21 proposals, which she said would cover four «big ticket areas that we want to make change on» and which she believed MPs had a «good prospect of achieving a consensus».

Mr Clark believes there is a growing consensus among three groups that come to the debate from different directions: the green lobby; people worried about security of energy supplies (who do not want to become dependent on Russian imports); and those with concerns about economic competitiveness.

What I find striking about the mayoral control debate is the false assumption that there exists a wide consensus on the need for it.

The roundtable did not attempt to address what should be taught, but it was clear from the questions and discussion that much debate would be required to achieve consensus on the tools and skills required of the new workforce.

Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the issue has been debated for many years, and the groups» coming together marks a «very major significant step» in reaching consensus on an approach to avoiding deforestation.

At a hearing before the House of Representatives Science Committee last week, John Doolittle, a Republican from California, said that research implicating CFCs in the destruction of ozone is «very much open to debate», and there is «no established consensus» on the role of CFCs.

When some politicians try to sway public opinion, they employ the tricks of the debating chamber: cherry - picking data, ignoring the consensus opinions of experts, adept use of a sneer or a misplaced comparison, reliance on the power of rhetoric rather than argument.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

All of the reports on genome editing call for robust public debate, but the simple fact is that embryo research has proven highly divisive and resistant to consensus, and it is far from clear how to know when there is enough thoughtful deliberation to make policy choices.

Heartland has recently been in the headlines after the release of their list «Red Team» nominees sent to the Trump EPA in an attempt to create a government sanctioned debate on the scientific consensus on climate change.

Choosing among the many places to visit within a constrained budget is a task left to the NRC and its decadal survey process wherein the relevant science community reaches consensus after significant debate on the top scientific priorities for a given 10 - year period (a decade, hence the term «decadal survey»).

«''» Until we have a consensus on the diminishing value of the notion of consensus as the keystone of the climate debate, we'll continue to see the politicization of climate science and the continued gridlock on climate policy.

Historical and even scientific truth can be merely the consensus agreed upon by those who presently have the power and influence to determine public opinion, or it can be based on evidence that has been tested in the laboratory, in debate, or in a court of law.

Since then, critical consensus on the movie itself has been hotly debated with the film's flaws ultimately ruining her character.

Given what we have learned, one wonders whether there would have been more consensus by now on the appropriate use of test - based measures in teacher evaluation if the debate had not started out so polarized.

Researchers and policymakers may be continuing to debate solutions to the nation's reading woes, but many struggling schools appear to have reached a consensus on the subject, even if not by choice.

Amidst the debates on how best to strengthen our educational system, there is clear consensus on what motivates the need for change: many of our country's children and adolescents are being left behind, falling out of the educational system and further into cycles of systematic disadvantage.

Have students use the rubric to assess the quality of the exemplars and debate their decisions until the class arrives at a consensus and is «calibrated» on the criteria.

So, as the debate rages on, a consensus on ability grouping and tracking is difficult to reach.

Rather than attempting to reach consensus, the objective has been to map out a variety of bold visions that push on the boundaries that circumscribe our current thinking and spur fresh debate.

It is hardly surprising that the apparent exhaustion of the education - reform consensus has been accompanied by exhaustion on the part of the American public (whose children have been caught in the middle of the debate), not to mention many policy elites and politicians.

Despite reaching a consensus on their findings, many researchers within the NICHD group debated the implications of this work, wondering whether the effects they found were even large enough to be of concern.

CEA President Sheila Cohen, who serves on the advisory council along with CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg, said yesterday's consensus is the result of much time, effort, rich dialogue and debate, and puts everything into perspective.

After three days of debate, the consideration of 57 amendments, and ample compromise from both sides of the aisle, the committee reached a consensus on what it believes is the best way to move education policy forward, away from the long outdated policies of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

I think that any thoughtful debate on the topic would wind up with a consensus that security theater is a waste.

The accuracy of my answers will rarely match consensus or helpfulness on this site, very rarely do people debate me on accuracy, where I am open to being corrected.

A debate to modify this and other reforms, especially the one which granted control of the Higher Education System by the government, was practically passed with consensus by the multi-partisan National Assembly on August 4, 2010, but vetoed by President Rafael Correa, who wanted to keep the law strictly as it was originally redacted by his political party and SENPLADES (National Secretary of Planning and Development).

Through the opinions formed, a thoughtful consensus is given on the many struggles and controversies that the game industry has faced, including the games as art debate, gaming and it's alleged violent and addictive tendencies, and it's legitimacy as a creative medium in the general public eye.

Ultimately there's no real consensus on the issue at the moment, but as the line between «Early Access» and «Release» gets blurrier than the vision of a drunken uni student whose glasses are inexplicably covered in Vaseline, it's something we're likely to see a lot more debate on in the future...

There is scientific consensus on that and there is no debate in the «scientific» community about this.

in the video summary of this story posted on nytimes.com revkin describes the warming debate being owned by the two «extremes», this is followed by shots of michael crichton's (non scientific consensus) book «state of fear» and... al gore with his (pro scientific consensus) slide lecture!

Going down this path, you'll quickly find yourself in a debate on discounting and the time value of action / resources, which will take you deep into discussions of subjects such as environmental ethics, future / present generations, the foundational assumtions of the discipline of economics, etc. — all very important and interesting subjects, but ones on which there is unlikely to be forged a new consensus on meaningful time scales related to climate change.

The debates on tobacco, MMR and WMD were very unbalanced but a popular consensus has emerged that is as near unanimous as can be expected on any complex issue.

Rather than telling me what I propose isn't correct or isn't enough, or whatever, let's debate from first point to last, not moving from one point to the next till consensus occurs on the current point.

Yet, thanks largely to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the debate has been centred not on scientific claim and counter-claim — or scientific theory and measurable results — but on what's referred to as the «scientific consensus».