Sentences with phrase «fight over science»

Offers a balanced view of the fight over science and U.S. history standards for Texas schools, but lacks the punch it might have achieved with a stronger point of view.

The real fight over science is going to be in appropriations, and that's going to be very, very rough.»

He was immersed for 20 years in Capitol Hill fights over science, most recently as chief of staff on the House Science Committee (under now - retired Representative Sherwood Boehlert, Republican of New York).

Not exact matches

You see, there's an entire subfield of computer science that can roughly be described as «pulling information out of things that look exactly like the Bitcoin transaction graph», and while these researchers haven't done much to Bitcoin yet — that's only because they're still fighting over the grant money.

Ever since King Camp Gillette invented the world's first double blade safety razor at the start of the 20th century, razor manufacturers have been fighting against one another to dominate what has grown to be well over a $ 15 billion a year business — all while seemingly paying no mind to the wishes of their customers, let alone the science behind getting a close shave.

Research studies have shown that many scientists are now trending towards believing in at least some form of divinity however; I think it's largely that we're only now letting science get the oppression it experienced over some of the religious wars fought over political reasons with little to do with actual beliefs or study.

In the light of the battles which have been fought over the Bible and science, perhaps this omission should be seen as an act of Providence.

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).

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

«Discussing American science literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science clascience literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice» that «downplays the controversy» over teaching evolution in schools, says Joshua Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science claScience Education, a nonprofit that has fought to keep creationism out of the science clascience classroom.

Congressional Republicans and the National Science Foundation (NSF) appear to be creeping toward common ground in their yearlong fight over how the agency manages its $ 7 billion research portfolio.

Congressional Republicans and the National Science Foundation appear to be creeping toward common ground in their yearlong fight over how the agency manages its $ 7 billion research portfolio.

The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) «public access» policy to other science - funding agencies.

The findings, published today in Royal Society Open Science, mark the first time that researchers have demonstrated that mantis shrimp (Neogonodactylus oerstedii) use both color and chemical cues when fighting over resources.

Over a storied four - decade career, she has helped expand our understanding of the universe, caused people to rethink how Nobel Prizes are awarded, and used her stature to fight sexism in the world of science.

Over time, top nutritionists in the field and science - friendly fitness professionals began fighting back against this misinformation by explaining that food type has relatively little, if anything, to do with fat loss / muscle gain, and that calories and the macros that make up those calories are much more relevant.

According to the Science Newsletter in over one thousand recorded cases chlorophyll has been effective in fighting various infections, chronic sinusitis, common colds and many other problems.

«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.

In it, players choose one of three sides — Terran Republic, New Conglomerate, or Vanu Sovereignty — and fight for dominance over a science fiction setting called Auraxis.

Social scientists also know, with decent rigor, that the fight over human - driven global warming — both over the science and policy choices — is largely cultural.

The cautionary tale of the fight over the cause of stomach ulcers, listed by quite a few contributors there, is the kind of saga that gives science journalists (appropriately) sleepless nights.

The challenge here, of course, is that the fight over climate science, to my mind, is a spillover from the more heated, and deeper, debate over climate policy.

(Remember the fight between Laurie David and the National Science Teachers Association over «An Inconvenient Truth»?)

Fights have long been brewing over how to teach the science without spin.

Too often, the classroom has been a battleground in which science loses out to ideology — either directly, as with fights to equate biblical accounts of creation with research illuminating natural selection, or indirectly, when fears of such fights cause teachers or administrators in a more subtle way to skip or skim over science that has big implications for society.

The Christian Science Monitor has a valuable update on the international fight over curbing emissions tied to millions of premature deaths and tens of billions of dollars in health - care costs each year — the emissions from cigarettes.

Discussions of climate science and policy have seen endless fights over the appropriate role of scientists.

Researchers are poring over an important medieval medical text with 360 recipes, many of which might have successfully fought infection long before modern science.

If the context behind the arguments is not included, the public just sees dispute, and can simply lump a science fight with those over abortion, gun rights, energy policy and other issues framed by ideology or values as much as (or more than) data.

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

Getting past the insults and accusations and (ultimately useful) fights over statistical approaches to studying climate trends in regions (or eras) with sparse data, it's clear to me that this is an area where science will out, in the end.

The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the fight over climate science and policy, beginning with a 16 - author op - ed article in The Wall Street Journal on Friday and, most recently, with a 39 - author rebuttal published today in the paper.

Others discussed how to deal with skeptics, some displaying a hostility to contrarians that seemed surprising to people who haven't followed the growing nastiness of the fight against global - warming science, which has come to resemble the fights over abortion and evolution.

Bruce Cox, Director of Greenpeace Canada, responded that Greenpeace has never demanded a universal chlorine ban and that Greenpeace does not oppose use of chlorine in drinking water or in pharmaceutical uses, adding that «Mr. Moore is alone in his recollection of a fight over chlorine and / or use of science as his reason for leaving Greenpeace.»

Geoengineering solution to global warming could destroy the ozone layer (04/24/2008) A proposed plan to fight global warming by injecting sulfate particles into Earth's upper atmosphere could damage the ozone layer over the Arctic and Antarctic, report researchers writing in the journal Science.

But right now, the battle over the policies is being fought in a proxy war over the science, which is pointless.

So in a 2015 poll, they broke out the question a little to It then asks respondents which areas they would like science and innovation to prioritize over the next 15 years, with areas such as job creation, health and medical care, energy supply, education and skills, and the fight against climate change among the issues they are asked to consider.

Since the thrust of your report is about the fight over cap - and - trade, isn't it more important to assess the fairness, albeit admittedly more difficult, of coverage on that issue — e.g., exaggerated alarmism over potential energy price spikes, etc. — than whether consensus science was reflected?

This is far from the language of the climate wars — which are fought over values very superficially and in an idiomatic language of science.

The fights over the policy prescriptions drift back to colour the science, not the other way around.