Sentences with phrase «extent of our scientific knowledge»

Not exact matches

«Isolating the genes that determine susceptibility could lead to developing immunities for different varietals and other crop plants and may contribute to general scientific knowledge of the grapevine, which has not been studied to the extent of other plants.»

The medical establishment has effected a political rather than a scientific closure on the debate, which reflects the extent to which the production, distribution and reception of medical knowledge and, indeed, scientific knowledge in general, are inextricably linked to power, both within the medical profession itself and in its relations with other social and economic groups.

Better than most works on the subject, which tend to assume too much knowledge on the part of the reader, Steele's very readable book makes clear the workings of natural weather and climate processes, in turn making clear the extent to which global warming alarmism is based on opportunistic hype and the relentless pursuit of a political — not a scientific — agenda.

The exuberance with which the latest «97 %» study has been greeted by many of those who want to promote constructive engagement with climate science reflects a distressing resistance to take in the more general «scientific consensus» that exists among science of science communication researchers that neither a deficit in knowledge of facts — ones relating to the science of climate as well as ones relating to the extent of scientific consensus — nor a deficit in the ability to make sense of scientific information is the source of continuing conflict over climate change.