Sentences with phrase «even established theory»

In many fields of science the norm is not to ignoring data that one finds inconsistant with proposed or even established theory.

Not exact matches

Yet if Feyerabend is correct, and an unpopular new theory can ignore or reject experimental data long enough to get its footing, how much longer can an old and creaky theory, buttressed by the reputations and influence and political power of hundreds of established practitioners, continue to hang in the air even when the results upon which it is premised are exposed as false?

Also, the field of science has a tendency to establish theory as fact even when they can't agree on most of its own principles.

Further, as already indicated, I would add that this second condition does not need to be met at the moment the thought is articulated; otherwise, all creative advances in thinking, which break beyond established beliefs and theory, would be discarded as incoherent and even irrational.

Perhaps my ènd of discussion «statement was a trifle brash, but when our fellow largely anonymous commentators attack interpretations and theories that vary even slightly from established conservative doctrine, I tend to get annoyed.

Many findings challenge and even flout established theories about what is harmful.

«We measured an acceleration even though the ring's motion hadn't changed at all,» says Clovis de Matos, who works at the European Space Agency in Paris and established the theory behind the experiment.

Never mind the physics of CO2 or its counter theories... Never mind the balance of positive and negative feedback mechanisms... Never mind estimates of «impacts»... Nor even the merits and demerits of wind turbines... The climate debate is at its core about the form of politics that established itself in the late 20th century.

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