Sentences with phrase «doubt about the science»

He said it presented a false equivalency, by giving doubts about the science equal weight to the very real discoveries of health risks.

Those differences can be caused by people intent on misleading the public, like the organized campaigns to create doubt about the science pointing to human - caused climate change, she said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.

The inaccurate headline and burst of hyperventilating coverage and commentary (with some exceptions, like this new post by Climate Central) have already provided fodder for those whose passion or job is largely aimed at spreading doubt about science pointing to consequential greenhouse - driven warming.

Tillerson was in favor of the Paris accord, while his successor, Mike Pompeo, has expressed doubts about the science of climate change.

That review could consist of nothing more than reading the news stories detailing Exxon's climate research and its history of sowing doubt about the science to performing a detailed inquiry, he said.

«The industry has had a longstanding, rather broad - based campaign to create doubt about the science,» said Michael MacCracken, a former program director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Research Program.

This leaves no doubt about the science; however, Wegman identified a larger problem about the control of climate science.

Laframboise's trip has been organised by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, which has a long history of promoting doubt about the science of human - caused climate change and the risks of the unmitigated burning of fossil fuels.

«Climate change is a serious problem, and yet some in the coal industry deny that the problem of global warming even exists and have contributed to organizations that spread doubt about science and policy,» Markey said.

You don't need to think long to find a reason for the tobacco industry and big oil wanting to spread doubt about the science behind the link between tobacco and cancer, and behind greenhouse gases and global warming, respectively.

It is the continuous doubt about the science, sowed by those who oppose a serious discussion about what to do, that is a stumbleblock.

ICN's eight - month investigation assembled details of Exxon's early understanding of the emerging science of climate change, casting a new light on the company's subsequent campaign to postpone aggressive climate policies by sowing public doubt about the science.

«Perhaps if they had spent more time and money diversifying their business rather than on lobbying against climate action and sowing the seeds of doubt about the science, they might not have joined the long (and ever growing) list of bankrupt global coal companies.»

Libertarian think tanks, the traditional foes of the enviro advocacy groups, began countering with doubts about the science.

Even Exxon / Mobil, the oil company that has been fueling the organizations that spread doubt about the science of AGW, is no longer flatly denying that AGW is a potentially significant problem, at least publicly.

Libertarian think tanks, the traditional bagmen of opportunists and foes of actual science, continued countering with doubts about the science as they had done with Darwin, with hygiene in medicine, with family planning and so on for generations.

At a time when The Guardian just reported another poll showing a drop in concern about climate change, and a New York Times front page this week described Britons» growing doubts about the science, its worth taking a look at that anti-science campaign, which was waged by Einstein's critics because like today's climate denial movement, the anti-relativity movement had some success too.

Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $ 120m (# 77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change.

New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin also chided NASA for an «inaccurate headline» and the associated «hyperventilating coverage,» but for a different reason: NASA provided «fodder for those whose passion or job is largely aimed at spreading doubt about science pointing to consequential greenhouse - driven warming.»

Especially when it's this good / infuriating: Watch Aasif Mandvi as he exposes a GOP strategist working to sow doubt about science in America, and ends up satirizing our depressing attitudes towards the discipline as a whole...

This response isn't justified by any real doubts about the science — in policy making, we often have to base our decisions on risks and probabilities, not on certainties, but deniers in the political sphere are bent on ignoring the risks altogether.

How a handful of consultants used Big Tobacco's tactics to sow doubt about science and hold off regulation of BPA, a chemical in hundreds of products that could be harming an entire generation.

But whereas I might be happy to act on a conjecture, I would not be happy to hide my doubts about the science.

Not exact matches

That raises doubts about a key argument for proponents of federal immigration reform: that companies need looser rules to import overseas workers because there aren't enough job candidates in the United States who can fill specialized skills, namely in science, technology and engineering.

Chemtrails, rogue cloud - seeding experiments, and doubts about the legitimacy of climate science are standard fare for the conspiracy theories that drive parts of the...

When I go through David Kinnaman's research, which reflects just about every concern I express in my «15 Reasons» posts --(young people are leaving the church because they believe it is too exclusive, too combative with science, hyper - political, out - of - touch when it comes to sexuality, and an unsafe place in which to wrestle with doubt)-- I am often met with blank stares.

That being said, philosophy can only take us so far, and when it conflicts with what is known about the physical world (i.e. science) we should be re-examining our premises, not doubting the physical evidence provided.

If a YEC can not understand how their beliefs are contradicted by evidence from really any field of science, from physics to geology to biology, then I have doubts about their abilities to be talented engineers.

The improbability of intelligent life is not in doubt while the argument about the degree of improbability is more a matter of «philosophical» science.

There is no doubt about Watson's enthusiasm for the science of the project.

Could it be that the two sides are more like each other than we care to admit??? LOL, why didn't they put the money they used to put up the billboard to prove without a shadow of a doubt that it is a myth and nothing in the bible actual happened since it's all about reason and science so we can put all the speculation to bed.

(ii) you, JW, have a startling new piece of evidence that was right before our eyes that will turn accepted biological science and about 10 other sciences on their heads if ONLY people would listen to you, no doubt earning you a Nobel Prize and a place in history beside the likes of Darwin, Newton and Einstein; or

If I could only find answers to all of my questions, if I could put all the pieces together, if I could learn more about science and history and theology and philosophy, I would believe without doubt, and I would win people to Christ.

When you pick something that is so strongly established as the approximate age of the earth and start talking about doubting that as «free thought» you're rejecting the whole field of science upon which modern scienfific progress is built.

Why not acknowledge science's clear expertise in scientific matters and quietly -LRB-»cause when you open our mouth you leave no doubt about your intelligence) continue to cling to what's left of your myths for as long as you can?

The science that gives evidence that sometimes, for any number of reasons, there is pain and before it can be resolved there is less milk and stress and fear and even less milk and concern and doubt about milk from another.

«They are definitely the world leaders now, there is no doubt about it,» says Simon Devitt at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan.

Growing doubts about evidence for ancient gravitational waves don't undermine cosmic inflation, says the theory's co-founder Andrei Linde — and don't let feelings obscure science

Following a crucial 2009 report by the National Academies of Science (NAS), doubts about the validity and reliability of forensic practices have been increasingly raised.

When we think about doubts over evolutionary science, we tend to think of the highly politicised views of young Earth creationists in the US.

Asked for comment, a NASA spokesperson called doubts about Kepler 452 b «an example of the scientific method at work and the way in which science is an evolving process as new information challenges us to revise our thinking and fine - tune our hypotheses.

Even so, Gould harboured grave doubts about the ability of science to remain free from social pressures and bias.

It's been driving a lot of policy in the United States, and it's one of the reasons why we always doubted — and when I say we, I'm talking about professional social science — that police could make a big difference in crime rates.

In case anyone was in doubt about the ire Darwin's work would arouse, the local vicar is seen telling him, «You're pitting science against God!»

In part because about half of the Senate publicly doubts climate science, the Paris agreement was legally crafted to allow Obama to sign it without Senate approval.

Canadian academics want science minister Gary Goodyear to resign over his latest statements involving religious views In March, Goodyear linked possible doubts about evolution to his beliefs.

Lest there be any doubt about the fate that awaits coral in a corrosive world, a recent paper published in the journal Science provides a stark warning.

Even as major media figures such as New York Times columnist and megaselling «flat - world» guru Thomas Friedman were trumpeting Gathering Storm's conclusions, experts in labor - power economics and research administration were voicing less publicized doubts about any purported dearth of well - trained U.S. science graduates.

A tale of two obsessed archeologists, one ancient city and nagging doubts about whether science can ever hope to reveal the past.