Sentences with phrase «healthy scepticism»

There's also a dose of healthy scepticism about greed and capitalism on a literally universal scale.

The publicly funded BBC has balance written into its charter, so is bound to give weight to both sides of a controversy, but from New Scientist I would expect a bit more healthy scepticism at times.

The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper - by far the best reminder that all dogma is suspect and that all models, theories and doctrines concerning human affairs become flawed if pressed too far and should always be treated with healthy scepticism.

But anyone who cares about the state of our politics - and comics, satirists, playwrights, writers and creative folk generally do — does need to recognise that when healthy scepticism veers into utter contempt, that spells danger.

But we must also avoid group think, and we must practice healthy scepticism, and be open minded.

But there is a sharp distinction between healthy scepticism and cynical manipulation of the facts.

I'm pretty sure expressing a bit of healthy scepticism doesn't get greenhouse gas emmissions targets established at a time when action is needed.

Such warnings sometimes require a healthy scepticism: on the evening of the general election, one senior Tooting Labour figure texted me to warn that turnout was rocketing in Tory areas and suppressed in Labour's.

Lockley calls the efforts to find them «spirit trails», and seems, here, to be losing track of his healthy scepticism.

With the healthy scepticism of a scientist, he writes: «But this speculation depends upon the hypothesis that planets were formed in this way.

When the management claims everything to be hunky dory, then it should invite a healthy scepticism.

Gareth's healthy scepticism and willingness to ask the questions no one wants to ask make for lively team discussions — especially at the odd hours required to co-ordinate Sydney, New York and Vienna, where he lives with his wife and son.

Throughout these emails Briffa has often demonstrated a healthy scepticism about his own and other's work, a scepticism seemingly lacking in either Jones or Mann.

Duffy will probably argue that healthy scepticism is good for the debate; but his is not healthy scepticism, it's denialism that has contempt for the truth.

In a recent case called Colley v. Colley, Mr. Justice Quinn — who has an established history of writing interesting decisions as judge for the Ontario Superior Court of Justice — expressed some healthy scepticism at the story by a wife who was now living with another man.