Sentences with phrase «just accept that consensus»

If the media implies that there is a scientific consensus on some topic, then many scientists who have not looked at the topic for themselves will just accept that consensus as being valid, without checking for themselves.

Not exact matches

The easy assumption that the Church was just as it should be was never universally accepted, but central and western European society, «Christendom», had come to be based on a majority consensus that it was.

I agree that true skepticism is an integral part of the scientific method — but want to emphasize that it is practiced by those who do accept the consensus, not just by those in opposition.

Here's part of the problem: Scientists are human, just like you and me, and they occasionally defend wrong ideas because they propagated in a time where some novel but wrong papers / books were written, and seemed right at the time, and the consensus accepted them, because it agreed with their biases.

But sometimes consensus just means that there is a consensus of skeptics (e.g., Wegener's theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 based on continent shapes but was not widely accepted until 50 years later because the smoking gun — deep sea rifts — hadn't been discovered) or there is consensus because the data is overwhelming (e.g., descent with modification).

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

I am perhaps more familiar with students who would have less of a consensus view on just about any subject because of their contrarian nature, but one could receive these comments as simply too consistently negative to accept as having constructive value or as typical of someone the blog needs and be, well, either crushed or overwhelmed about what to do to obtain their approval and go into a defensive frenzy.

The Journal of the American Statistical Association still publishes good papers supporting a skeptical / lukewarmist position (as does the AAAS's Science Magazine), but I expect that the board of the ASA has just raised the bar for accepting studies not supportive of the consensus.