Sentences with phrase «of competing hypotheses»

Once the first brown dwarf candidates were actually found, however, astronomers realized that it was actually quite difficult to definitely rule on the validity of competing hypotheses about how a substellar object was actually formed without having been there.

With more manned lunar exploration a decade or two away, the mysteries of the moon's geologic past remain in the realm of competing hypotheses.

«Our analysis sets up a test of competing hypotheses, and our preliminary results are consistent with expectations under hunting pressure.»

«Suddenly I don't think that I have all the facts, that the sober analysis of competing hypotheses has not taken place, that the global consensus often bandied about is a fallacy — a variation of ad populum argument — and that our nation can not commit itself to irrevocable courses of actions based on compromised science.»

Prediction from low birthweight to female adolescent depression: A test of competing hypotheses