Sentences with phrase «debates over evidence»

Rather than articulating a broad, theoretical case for reforms that have been embraced by policymakers, the books of the «aughts» were more likely to engage in debates over evidence, articulate a strategy that had not been adopted, or do battle against the strategies that policymakers did adopt.

Not exact matches

In addition to suing over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that debate over whether climate change is human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settled.

And there is, in fact, very little evidence that champions of ecclesial pluralism have bent over backwards to insure that their opponents are given a fair hearing on occasions of public debate, nor are they conspicuously tolerant or open - minded when they happen themselves to be in positions of extra-ecclesial authority — as journal editors, perhaps, or as deans of theology faculties.

So the one thing the debate showed last night is that Newt won't be touched significantly by any of the existing evidence about his interesting past — including how he's been earning his living over the last decacde — any time soon.

The global warming debate rages over which evidence is included and excluded, how that evidence is framed, and then how it's interpreted.

There may be a debate over the precise details of his ministry, but the evidence that Jesus lived as an itinerant preacher and died by Roman crucifixion is beyond dispute.

How can you have a debate when one side had observable data, evidence from all over the planet, genetic research on its side and the other has no evidence just magic?

Throughout the ongoing debate over the definition of marriage, Right Wing bigots have cited the damage caused by hom.ose.xuality and hom.os.exual relationships in an attempt to justify legal discrimination against gays.The scientific evidence on the matter is out there.

4 December 2013 Industry calls for commonsense and evidence in energy drink debate The Australian Beverages Council, representing the Australian energy drink industry, has called on Albury Council to adopt a commonsense approach backed by evidence in the debate over energy drinks.

Drawing upon evidence from the debates over healthcare reform in both the U.S. and the U.K., where Palin's propagation of the idea of death panels and Labour's insistence that Gove's reforms constituted privatisation «pure and simple» served only to confuse and scare the wider public, Thompson argued that misleading and emotive language is making political reform and compromise harder to achieve.

The debate over gay marriage is back on the agenda with evidence that the government might allow religious elements into civil partnership ceremonies.

Its proponents can point to logical, coherent evidence that it would reduce the homicide rate, and it has not been debated by Parliament for over a decade.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

It is false to claim that there is still a «debate» going on over the origins of the Giant's Causeway, because the creationist viewpoint has no scientific evidence to back it up, and it is completely wrong to portray it on an equal footing with the genuine scientific account.

Labour First's reason for wanting to ban debate until 2022 is that the far - left have begun to take over the party, as evidenced by the televised appearances of Simon Hardy (Left Unity) and Nancy Taaffe (Socialist Party) who called for the deselection of MPs in a party of which they're not even members.

Fierce debate still rages over its significance, but many see it as a crucial piece of evidence in the story of how humans came to be — one that suggests flowers played a key role in our evolution.

There is an ongoing debate over what constitutes the first evidence for cooking hearths.

With enough evidence from around the world, the debate over the Human Age could finally be settled.

Such evidence has fueled a long - standing debate over how to define the term «species» (SN: 11/11/17, p. 22).

Meanwhile, psychologists are locked in a loud and bitter debate over the scientific evidence.

Debate over the timing of human origins will continue despite the new evidence from the child, whose remains came from previous shoreline excavations near the town of Ballito Bay, says Uppsala University evolutionary geneticist and study coauthor Mattias Jakobsson.

It might be tempting to dismiss this as yet more evidence of the US right divorcing itself from scientific reality, as has happened in debates over evolution and climate change.

In news that will surely fan the flames of the heated debate over genetically modified crops, scientists have found evidence that genes from GM plants can spread far and wide to native ones.

«Given his background,» Cohan adds, «Jason would have been a leading voice on health care and adherence to evidence in debates over climate and energy policy.»

Thanks to support from Jack Newman, cofounder of Amyris, we are building «Cautionary Vigilance» as a website forum designed to dissect the complexity of a controversial innovation into a logical array of specific debates curated to get resolved, over time, by evidence.

We could have a long (and probably pointless) debate over just how that's measured, but one of their claims is that «our general air quality has increased», as «evidence» of which they present their Figure 3 - 3, showing a (slight!)

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

The debates over bilingual education, multicultural curricula, and textbook accounts of American history are evidence of a nation's struggle to define itself in the face of a shifting population.

The results of this paper add evidence to the debate in the United States over the desirability of creating networks of charter and voucher schools.

Students engage in historical inquiry when they ask questions, discover evidence and participate in debates over interpretation.

It's not surprising when it comes to attitudes to gender, then, that there are hot debates over the nature of men and women, and boys and girls, and that these continue despite some decades of evidence and argument that gender differences are small and often not particularly significant.

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

«[I] n the debate about these policies, perspective has taken over where the evidence trail ends.»

The Labor Day weekend is over but there's no sign that lawmakers are ready to deal on the budget impasse now two month old — but of more immediate concern to schools, there's evidence that $ 1.2 billion in federal jobs money might get caught up in the spending debate.

«A new article by Dr. Craig L. Israelsen titled, This piece of evidence could derail the growth vs. value debate, opened my eyes to the huge differences similar indices earn over similar periods of time.

Of course, the very fact that the debate over «the feral cat problem» persists illustrates the point: if trap - and - kill worked, the evidence would be plentiful by now, and the debate would have ended.

In the early «Composite drawings» such as Warhol Flowers, Lichtenstein's Pointed Hand (1965), we can see evidence of the playful, rebellious mindset that would eventually contribute so much to contemporary debates over authorship, authenticity and the individual.

For artists tackling today's hot topics like immigration, marriage equality and the enduring debates over abortion and gun rights, «This Will Have Been» exhibits crucial evidence of artists» contributions to the struggles of an era as troubled as our own.

We imagine ourselves to be sophisticated and scientific, but there is little evidence shown any more — particularly in this mindless debate over 0.00006 change in CO2 concentration.

In policy, the debate is over when a preponderance of evidence emerges.

Every good science «debate» have ever seen took an hour or so to mull over a tiny question, led immediately to a couple new testable hypotheses and experimental designs — each of which required a few months of independent bench work, though in some fields a week of computer time might be a more appropriate tool — and then ended up in a second, reconvened session in which evidence was presented and another aspect of the problem was discussed.

Most of the evidence says that it did and there is little debate over the fact that solar was increasing in this period.

Much evidence pointed to a large volcanic eruption around AD 536, with no evidence of one in in AD 540, and there was much debate over its climatic effects.

It is now claimed that the science is settled, the evidence for AGW is overwhelming and the debate is over..

The evidence is clear, the debate is over: climate change is not, as has been claimed by many, «our moon landing», nor even the «defining issue of our generation».

It was implied in his 2007 evidence to the US Senate that inaccurately said, «the debate is over, the science is settled.»

There is prima facie evidence that Trenberth communicated with him over this paper, which implies backroom pressure, rather than open debate.

But what the squabble over the Sunday Politics interview reveals is that political debates descend to science; they are often not improved by science and evidence as much as they degraded by undue expectations of them.

Of course, this isn't true: those in academia are constantly debating and modifying their ideas over time as new evidence comes to light, and those who hold minority viewpoints are valued for their opinion, but only when they can provide evidence for their stance, not for their ability to sign a petition.

There's a very lively academic debate going on over whether hot extremes trigger human conflict at all scales from individual to civil wars — my reading of the evidence is that the effect is real,» he said.