Sentences with phrase «legitimate scientific»

It is the product of fraud and is contrary to the legitimate scientific evidence.

Their tactics and fallacies include ignoring or distorting mainstream scientific results, cherry - picking data and falsely generalizing, bringing up irrelevant red - herring arguments, demanding unachievable «precision» from mainstream science with the motif «if you don't understand this detail you don't understand anything», overemphasizing and mischaracterizing uncertainties in mainstream science, engaging in polemics and prosecutor - lawyer Swift - Boat - like attacks on science - and lately even scientists, attacking the usual scientific process, misrepresenting legitimate scientific debate as «no consensus», and overemphasizing details of little significance.

Although there is uncertainty about what the precise impacts will be, there is no longer legitimate scientific disagreement about the fact that the climate is changing and that those changes will accelerate over the next century.

The Orwellian - named «Discovery Institute» is an organization dedicated to the promotion of Intelligent Design (ID), which is little more than a superficial repackaging of long - discredited creationist arguments against evolutionary theory.They do not have a legitimate scientific program, although they desperately try to create the impression that they do.

The idea was for TASSC to create an extensive grassroots campaign where it would be promoted as a legitimate scientific source.

During floor debate in the legislature, however, Republican State Sen. Beau McCoy, a candidate for governor, amended the bill to direct scientists to focus only on so - called «cyclical» climate change — a term that has no legitimate scientific meaning.

«Even the placement of iron particles into the ocean, whether for carbon sequestration or fish replenishment, should not take place, unless it is assessed and found to be legitimate scientific research without commercial motivation.

This does not appear to even have had the guise of legitimate scientific research.»

What I am talking about is, that it seems to me that with regard to climate science, this blog spends far too much time responding to the phony, trumped - up «debate» fueled by denialist drivel, and not enough time addressing the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is in fact too late to prevent global warming and climate change that will be catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.

SecularAnimist (# 206) ``... the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is in fact too late to prevent global warming and climate change that will be catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.»

# 3 Global and Planetary Change is a legitimate scientific journal.

That being said, can you really say that there is no legitimate scientific debate on paleoclimate and climate sensitivity?

The story of bird evolution also has everything a paleontology enthusiast could want — impressive fossils, exotic extinct creatures, an unfolding mystery, and a bit of legitimate scientific controversy.

I think anyone who says or suggests they have addressed every legitimate scientific issue raised by skeptics sounds like a fool.

You're saying it was okay for Muller to say the only legitimate scientific issues skeptics have raised pertained to the modern surface temperature record.

According to research by Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan and his colleagues, people's deep - seated views about morality, and about the way society should be ordered, strongly predict whom they consider to be a legitimate scientific expert in the first place — and thus where they consider «scientific consensus» to lie on contested issues.

Obscure journals working in controversial areas should therefore enforce rigorous quality standards, while remaining careful not to censor new ideas or limit legitimate scientific debate.

The fact that the field of climatology is reluctant to admit how large the potential errors are is what is wrong... not the fact that it uses inferred measurements and proxies and models, which are all legitimate scientific tools.

Every legitimate scientific academy and institution and every government, except the current U.S. administration, agrees.

«She has played a particularly pernicious role in the climate change denial campaign, laundering standard denier talking points but appearing to grant them greater authority courtesy of the academic positions she has held and the meager but nonetheless legitimate scientific work that she has published in the past,» he said.

We can argue about the location of the dividing line between legitimate scientific dispute and denial, but surely that line exists.

Do you think that the fact that there is still considerable debate on the web (including by some people who are scientists and engineers) in regards to evolution means that there is legitimate scientific evidence against it?

In a statement, Mr. Boehlert, who is retiring at the end of the year, expressed satisfaction with the results, saying, «There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change — which doesn't rest primarily on these temperature issues, in any event — or any doubts about whether any paper on the temperature records was legitimate scientific work.»

So what if E&E is not a «legitimate scientific journal» (whatever that is supposed to mean)?

It is beyond legitimate scientific dispute that a substantial so - called greenhouse effect exists... How would you like to characterize the validity of that statement?

It is beyond legitimate scientific dispute that a substantial so - called greenhouse effect exists, that carbon dioxide is an important contributor to that effect, and that an increase in carbon dioxide concentrations should lead to an increase in global temperatures.

Energy and Environment is not a legitimate scientific journal and papers are not peer - reviewed.

-- They will make unreasonable or impossible demands for evidence, move the goalpost when evidence is presented, and refuse entire categories of legitimate scientific evidence.

You are talking about the wrong person, to put it mildly, but this is the assessment that need be made, to continue perpetuating the same self reinforcing belief on this issue, and memes to dismiss legitimate scientific concerns and claims by leading scientists, as simple misplaced «alarmism» or other.

Unfortunately this exploration into the science has left me with the impression that the «consensus» is an artifact of media manipulation by the environmental left, and severely underestimates the legitimate scientific uncertainties that exist.

Before the show had even gone to air, the program was causing controversy with commentators — myself and others including Clive Hamilton, Stephan Lewandowsky and Michael Ashley — pointing out its format gave the false impression of there being a legitimate scientific debate about fossil fuel burning causing climate change.

When you throw away the chaff of all the fallacious arguments and try to distill the climate science advocated by the IPCC and alike, you find that there are actually two arguments which appear as legitimate scientific arguments, but unfortunately don't hold water.

AGW deniers don't really have a legitimate scientific point to make.

[1] Typically, these attempts take the rhetorical form of legitimate scientific debate, while not adhering to the actual principles of that debate.

In an era of #fakenews, it can sometimes be tricky to work out what is legitimate scientific reporting, and what is, well, fake.

How could that be if this was a legitimate scientific enterprise?

The primary scientific criticism of ID is that it is not a legitimate scientific theory, but rather a transparent attempt at recasting religious faith (creationism) in scientific - sounding jargon.

What's more, it's very easy to separate these type of people from a legitimate scientific skeptic, or a curious student, from the mere structure and flow of the argument upon casual inspection

If you accept the scientific consensus on evolution, you may be more likely to avail yourself of legitimate scientific sources of information.

A necessary though not in general sufficient condition for taking a scientific criticism seriously is that it has passed through the legitimate scientific peer review process.

These statements are limited to positions that are within the range of available geophysical data or norms of legitimate scientific debate.

---- Indeed, she did not, and having any legitimate scientific conversation about record warm years without discussing ENSO is an error of omission that should not be coming from a scientific authority.

There is a legitimate scientific debate about the optimal proportion of macronutrients (fat, carbohydrates, protein) for weight loss and maintenance.

Such ironic attempts by climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers and other science critics to usurp the mantle of legitimate scientific skepticism is so commonplace it has a name — the Galileo Gambit.

Rob, I think the simple fact that there is a legitimate scientific debate will be useful news to many.

From «How much «climate disruption» global warming causes, however, is a matter of legitimate scientific debate» to «totalitarians Trojan horse».

Their tactics and fallacies include ignoring or distorting mainstream scientific results, cherry - picking data and falsely generalizing, bringing up irrelevant red - herring arguments, demanding unachievable «precision» from mainstream science with the motif «if you don't understand this detail you don't understand anything», overemphasizing and mischaracterizing uncertainties in mainstream science, engaging in polemics and prosecutorial - lawyer Swift - Boat - like attacks on science - and lately even scientists, attacking the usual scientific process, misrepresenting legitimate scientific debate as «no consensus», and overemphasizing details of little significance.

These are attacks based on anti-regulatory, so called «free market» ideology, not legitimate scientific debate, using a wide range of dirty tricks: from faked science, attacks on scientists, fake credentials, cherry - picking scientific conclusions: a campaign based on the old tobacco industry mantra: «doubt is our product».

How much «climate disruption» global warming causes, however, is a matter of legitimate scientific debate.

Clearly qualified to speak about climate and the legitimate scientific dispute, producing the world class well researched articles that makes him the mainstream media in this area.