Sentences with phrase «failures of science»

It seems obvious to me that discovery of such defects and revision of the models is the essential activity that will improve the reliability of — or even potentially refute — the results, not critiques of SETI, not pronouncements on the past successes or failures of Science, not discussion of the motives or whacky statements (etc) of various groups, nor other like stuff.

Failures of science?

For the author states in one place that he once proposed to give a broadcast talk on «The Failures of Science.»

Re: magnetic braids, you appear to think they represent some significant failure of science.

This doubt is considerably strengthened by the failure of science to uncover any specific hereditary mechanisms sufficient to account for drinking pathologies.»

The failure of science and technology to bestow values on the facts with which they deal contributes to a world - wide malaise or sense of meaninglessness.

Many factors can determine the success or failure of any science experiment.

Newly returned from riding along on the U.S. Coast Guard's Healy icebreaker as it surveyed the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska, Vermont Law School professor Betsy Baker reports a failure of science and law to communicate.

This could be viewed as a failure of the science - policy interface.

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The IPCC: Structure, Processes and Politics Climate Change — the Failure of Science (Energy & Environment, Volume 18, Numbers 7 - 8, pp. 1073 - 1078, December 2007)-- William J.R. Alexander

The failure at connecting the dots between increasing CO2 levels and CC / GW / hardship is not a failure of science, nor a disavowal of the GHG hypothesis.

Not exact matches

A lot of our failures have been backing science that didn't work out.

The key to the Body by Science approach is to perform reps reaaallly slowly, keeping muscles under load for an extended period of time, and to keeping working until failure — which is even tougher in practice than it sounds in theory.

You might say fear of failure, lack of dedication, or simple exhaustion, but apparently science has a different answer to this question.

In science, such an utter failure on one's predictive track record is a fair and objective measure of the falsification of one's hypotheses.

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A general failure to understand science also leaves kids less able to pursue other related fields that rely on appreciation of the scientific method as well as critical thinking.

You don't know what theories are in a scientific context, you make an argument equivalent to «people can't take strides greater than ten feet, therefore it's impossible to run a marathon,» and you think that the lack of a full understanding about a particular hypothetical explanation is some kind of demonstration that science is an abject failure.

This process has been fostered, we believe, by the failure to respond appropriately to the rise of science and its attendant culture.

For the principles of biology will have to deal with the elusive logic of achievement, whereas in the hard sciences there is no such experience as success or failure.

We must now turn our eyes away from mere created goods to the study of the creative process itself, and devote ourselves, our science, and our technology to that process in order to avoid the destruction which surely awaits our failure to do so.

It's not the failure of our school systems to teach science, it's the failure of our parents to embrace it.

Your belief in this is only a testament to the failure of our school systems to teach people science.

’28 Kuhn's portrayal of normal science as dominated by unchallenged dogmas, his failure to specify criteria for paradigm choice, and his talk of «conversion» and «persuasion» all seem to these critics to threaten the objectivity and rationality of the scientific enterprise.

The fairly ubiquitous failure of contemporary Catholic thought to respect the findings of modern science as anything more than interesting and handy measurement and mathematics is charted in this issue by Stephen Barr, John Haldane and David Brown.

Such Catholic philosophy is hamstrung by its failure to engage fully with material reality, and its credibility is shaken in the light of the specific, successful and useful results of science.

Failure to make this distinction can easily confuse discussions of the relation between science and faith.

Wilson thinks that the answer to these and similar questions is no, primarily because of scientific illiteracy, but also because of a widespread failure to live up to the intellectual, religious and moral implications of science.

The failure to connect Christ, man and creation in a single, coherent and orthodox vision, for the age of science, is a vital missinglink in the Church's efforts to preach «the Word who is Life» to our post-Christian world.

And yet it is difficult to find many important scientific thinkers, philosophers of science or naturalists who sufficiently recognize the failure of scientific method to reach as deeply into the nature of the universe as we must if we are to respond intelligently to the question of purpose.

If science can't prove the existence of God, then science and the so call scientific are a total failure.

But his failure to justify this distinction, by showing how to map a domain of rationality in which the elucidation of metaphysical concepts followed the secure path of a science («in accordance with the example set by geometers and physicists») indicates a general limitation on natural philosophy.

Nevertheless, recent developments in the scientific culture, especially as we see them reported in books like James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science, suggest that Snow's greatest mistake was his failure to take into account the extent to which the literature of science is literature itself, which has all along anticipated much of what science ultimately spells out in its own terms — terms that have often enough seemed invidious to liteScience, suggest that Snow's greatest mistake was his failure to take into account the extent to which the literature of science is literature itself, which has all along anticipated much of what science ultimately spells out in its own terms — terms that have often enough seemed invidious to litescience is literature itself, which has all along anticipated much of what science ultimately spells out in its own terms — terms that have often enough seemed invidious to litescience ultimately spells out in its own terms — terms that have often enough seemed invidious to literature.

Biological generalizations have been considered by some philosophers of science as different in kind from laws because of the failure they seem to share with accidental generalizations to meet the conditions for law - likeness (Toulmin 1953, Ch.

Science as it is practiced has both virtues and vices, successes and failures, and its practitioners work from a variety of metaphysical bases.

Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).

Analysing the isolated success of science in the other great cultures of the world, he demonstrates how their long - term failures (or «stillbirths») were invariably connected to the dominant philosophical or religious mindset of the given culture, especially the pervasive influence of eternal cycles and other tendencies towards fatalism.

@ mama k: while science may explore & attempt to understand what can be known about the physical universe, it's a failure to understand the very definition of metaphysics to think that somehow leads into a «God of the gaps» scenario.

I did see the identical recipe on some recipe websites as I began my science sleuthing out of failure.

On the Jamaican clenbuterol positives: A procedural failure and credibility black hole The Science of Sport

From a professional perspective, I have had lots of lovely opportunities come my way, and made real progress with Science Sparks in a slightly mad, bursting with ideas and not able to focus / sleep / concentrate manner, but on a personal level, I have a real sense of failure about the last month or so.

However, market failure extends well beyond conventional areas of supply - side intervention, notably policies in skills, science, and research.

The system by which New York would amend its constitution is «cumbersome, lengthy and probably doomed to failure,» said Doug Muzzio, a professor of political science at Baruch College's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

University of California, Berkeley energy professor Daniel Kamman stepped down as science envoy for the State Department, saying Trump's failure to condemn the deadly neo-Nazi rally put the whole country in danger.

Speaking to a conference organised by Reform on the decline of maths and science teaching Michael Gove will highlight the importance of science to economic growth and Britain's failure under Labour to prepare for competition from China and India.

Striking workers of the Nigeria Institute of Science Laboratory (NISLT) Ibadan, on Monday protested against failure of the Federal government to honour agreement reached with staff...

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

Life at the Bottleneck by Ruth Müller, 26 October 2012 Upon realizing, as a scholar of science and technology studies, that success and failure in academia depend on more than personal effort, Ruth Müller made it a point to identify other potential interests and fields of occupation to increase her resilience to career anxieties.

Science is a high - failure proposition, which can lead to feelings of inadequacy.