Sentences with phrase «little science backing»

While the book is a very interesting read (and totally worth checking out) there is little science backing up Hefenkler's claims.

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Read a little bit about science, or go back to school, before you make unqualified comments like this.

It reminds me of the text on the back of my shampoo bottle, which promises that all my dry, frizzy hair needs is a little «fortified fruit science» and all will be well.

Once the water comes back up to a boil, add a little pinch of baking soda — it's a science thing that'll make the polenta cook faster — and slowly add two cups coarse polenta.

While there are criticisms associated with extended breastfeeding, your instinct which is backed by modern science, will tell you that you are in fact doing the right thing for you and your little one.

And, a little while back, I won a couple of little purses for my daughter made my Mom at The Art and Science of Parenting.

Tremblay can trace her own interest in space science and engineering back to when she was a youngster playing with construction sets and reading science magazines back in the little northern town of Jonquière, Quebec.

«If we go back and we know a bit more, and a bit more narrative goes in from the social sciences, we might be able to unravel a little bit more» about the reasons for attack frequency timing, Johnson suggests.

It's probably worth at least a footnote that like many things in our memory, they are not always as trustworthy as you think — and I think some people would go back and look at some of those old issues and be a little bit disappointed that some things were not exactly the way that they remembered them — but the fact is that for its time, Scientific American was a fantastic science magazine.

«Anybody who's been in serious, aggressive science in academia can tell you stories about people holding back key parts of data,» he says, «because they want to get a little bit farther down the road before they publish it.»

When you begin your job search, you may know little more than what's given in the job ads in the back of Science.

But with the chicken pathogens beaten back, levels of the antibodies that fight all three strains have fallen in the birds, allowing S. enteritidis, which elicits little or no immune response, a greater foothold, the researchers suggest in the 7 January issue of Science.

There are many claims about the miraculous healing properties of ACV, but very little science to back them up.

Many people in online forums and discussion boards claim that they have seen a noticeable increase in energy levels from taking Moringa, though I found relatively little science to back this up and «energy levels» are one of the most difficult factors to measure objectively.

The Science article stated sadly that it would be years before medicine would have a pill available for celiac sufferers — but why not just apply a little logic to the problem and go back to preparing bread with a long fermentation.

And a little science to back it up.

They might sound good, but there's little science to back up their claims of these foods being beneficial for skin health (and before you suggest it — chia seeds and almonds are high in the omega - 3 ALA, not EPA or DHA, which are the omegas beneficial for skin, brain and heart health).

Otherwise, there is little in the way of science - backed recommendations as to what you can do.

And while there is little to no science to back this up, some believe that foods that resemble body parts are therapeutic.

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.

Yeah, it all sounds a little insane, but there might be some actual science to back it up.

Unlike Chemistry, most dating sites have very little science that has been published to back up the claims of their service and matchmaking system.

The biggest shiver down my back came from the reinforcement that incredible advancements in science can be discovered with little effort and high - tech weaponry and gadgets can be created in poorly outfitted locales.

And just cuz you're the heroine in a science fiction adventure doesn't mean you can't have a little voice in the back of your head telling you not to kiss the wrong boy.

Way back at the turn of the century, The Wachowskis created a little science - fiction film entitled The Matrix.

These stories are really no different from the kind Driscoll tells, but the fashion nowadays is to put on our lab coats and speak with the authority of science, even when there is little actual science to back our claims.

Medicine is a field that works relatively well where most of the improvement processes come on the front end (extensive training, clinical science building on basic science, ongoing dissemination of clinical science) with little emphasis on accountability for results on the back end.

«We're asking our students to do these very complex tasks,» she said, «but it's a little bit unrealistic if we continue to put science on the back burner in the lower grades.»

Turning the clock a little further back to April we have the release of Paper Science 4, for which I created a rather dark little tale entitled When She Sleeps.

«When people are training to be library supervisors, there is very little out there to help you learn to do that job and with today's economic conditions, school districts are cutting back and people who have no background in library [science] are now in charge in libraries,» says author Cynthia Anderson, also associate superintendent for educational services at Shawnee Mission (Kansas) School District.

Bright from the Start: The Simple, Science - Backed Way to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3 offers practical ideas for parents on how to relate to these little people and help them thrive.

There's just two live - action childrens show — Annebots — about a little girl who builds three robots in the back of her dad's junk yard, in a show that «aims to introduce kids to science and technology in a fun, new way.»

I also wrote a science fiction book (part of a planned trilogy) back in 2014 at a little more than 100,000 words.

In fact, according to PetMD, «breed - specific dog foods are little more than a marketing gimmick and do not have sound nutritional science backing them».

Let's get a grip — a little hyperbole in a press release is to be expected — the critical moment is whether the science is backed up.

I think Chris Christensen is on the money when he says «a little hyperbole in a press release is to be expected — the critical moment is whether the science is backed up.»

Rather than report every article in a scientific journal or evry press release by an interrested party, perhaps preliminary studies and those with little science to back the claims should be put on the back burner until more information is obtained.

But I do know how science works, and it doesn't work when christian libertarian scientists sit back in their armchairs, and by merely lifting a little finger, are able to pronounce that markets will accomplish the global implementation of alternative energy, and that no effort by christian libertarian scientists is necessary at all.

It is more a free - for - all than a debate or discussion; politics, personality, money, and a little science, which has taken a back seat to the discussions.

«I have been involved in climate change science since 1988 and by 1992 I realized there was very little science to back up the claims of anthropogenic global warming.

We are all STILL WAITING for the poor little AGW sympathiser to produce some actual empirical science to back up the atmospheric CO2 warming FARCE.

A while back I read an interesting little book: Popper vs. Kuhn: the Battle for Understanding How Science Works by Massimo Pigliucci.

With little backing, and facing ostracism for her heresy, this talented science journalist had abandoned any chance of a normal, lucrative career and systematically set out to expose the way the huge financial gravy train that is climate science has distorted the methods of science.

And of course, those of us in the world of building science always back up and look at the big picture, but many people get swayed by little things like 100 % efficiency (compared to 95 % or 80 %).

There appears to be a profound lack of contact between climate science and the street level herd of humanity as there appears to be little or no field work as a direct outcome of climate science research to bring climate scientists and associated science into regular contact and discourse with, down to earth, street level ordinary people and in the fields and the back blocks of human residence.

The good news is (at least from the perspective of science) that the role of carbon dioxide in climate change is very well established — at the theoretical level in terms of quantum physics, at the experimental level in terms of the study of the absorbtion and re-emission of radiation by carbon dioxide, at the numerical level (when equations get a little too complicated — but a good approximation can result from intensive computation by means of our fairly advanced computers), in terms of historical trends going back more than 500,000 years — and countless studies.

Obviously many well known scientists promoted global cooling back then — Obama's science adviser and Steven Schneider to name a couple (I have seen them on video tape doing so, so it would be a little hard for you to convince me otherwise).

When you're feeling a little off or even if you're teetering on the brink of losing your temper, try these science - backed tricks to get back on track.

While he admonished me, he checked with Dr Wikipedia while he had me on the line and started reciting stuff about: «The use of osteopathy is not always based on science, and there is little evidence that osteopathy is effective in treating any medical condition except for lower back pain.»