Sentences with phrase «illustrate scientific points»

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Yet I think that in spite of the knowledge that Mr. Carson displays to illustrate his point, he has misled his readers in the long run by suggesting that there is a clear scientific basis for believing that we can not affect climate....

I wasn't thinking of the blogosphere, I was thinking of the TV viewers who don't, or can't wade through the scientific arguments, but would have absorbed the tritely illustrated points which were made every 5 minutes before the commercial break.

The modus operandi is to 1) set up the Popperish straw man of needing only one fact or observation to falsify a scientific theory 2) find some inconsequential divergence between theory and observation (e.g. that last month was cooler than average; an extreme example to illustrate the point) 3) triumphantly announce that this renders the entire edifice of AGW / Darwinian theory invalid 4) imply that the alternative (sunspots / natural variability / creationism) must be correct.

They're illustrating a point — that a scientific approach used in many human studies often leads to findings that are flat - out wrong.