Sentences with phrase «of fringe science»

The Lisbon meeting marked the introduction of what had once been the domain of fringe science to the international foreign - policy wonkocracy.

Her first book was an investigation of the fringe science pursued by some of the shadier wings of the defence establishment, including remote psychic viewing and antimatter bombs.

Not exact matches

The writers of FOX's Fringe needed so much science assistance that The Exchange set up their own dedicated rapid response team.

David MacNeal is the author of «Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them» and a journalist exploring the fringes of science, technology and culture.

Sagan attributed the persistence of unbelief to ignorance and hucksterism and set out to cure the problem with popular books, magazine articles, and television programs promoting the virtues of mainstream science over its fringe rivals.

Regarding excommunication of fringe scientific positions, this betrays a miscomprehension of the process of science.

It's easy to write transhumanism off as a fringe phenomenon of science fantasy.

Look let's face it these fringe players won't leave because they are on good money and they don't want a drop in wages so they are happy to sit on the bench week in week out Wenger wants to get real if you want rid of them drop the bloody price it's not rocket science

«On the fringes of Warrington is Daresbury science park, which is a brilliant place that takes some of the best ideas produced in universities in the north - west and combines them with marketing skills and venture capital.

Cold fusion was considered debunked, and it has lived beyond the fringe of mainstream science ever since.

Yet despite its high public visibility and near - ubiquity in blockbuster Hollywood science fiction, throughout most of its 55 - year history SETI has languished on the fringes of scientific research, garnering relatively scant funding and only small amounts of dedicated observation time on world - class telescopes.

A Wild Profusion The anthropic principle languished on the fringes of science for years.

Experiments like Maharaj's operate on the fringes of science, yet they have captured the public imagination.

► Salaries and fringe benefits account for 66 % of the biomedical research price index, reported Jeffrey Mervis, also in this week's issue of Science, reflecting an «outsized effect of salaries and benefits on biomedical inflation.»

At the time, looking for aliens still sat on the fringes of science.

Examples of fringe collaboration include the amateur naturalist who brings in a species new to science but is not concerned with subsequent taxonomic research on it, the technician who makes a vital series of analyses at a distant laboratory, or the group of undergraduates who provide a preliminary database from student projects that later forms the justification for a full - blown project.

Interstellar travel is a fringe area of science, and while many plans exist on paper, space agencies like NASA have devoted little resources to fleshing out the details.

And the question of how science on the fringe should be dealt with remains open: some observers say that Meldrum, who has been lambasted by colleagues and passed over for promotion twice, should just be left alone to do his thing; others counter that in this era of creationism, global warming denial, and widespread antiscience sentiment and scientific illiteracy, it is particularly imperative that bad science be soundly scrutinized and exposed.

Hubble now enters a phase of full science observations ranging from studying the population of Kuiper Belt objects at the fringe of our solar system to surveying the birth of planets around other stars.

Kaitlin Naughten from the University of New South Wales works on one of the most pressing issues facing modern climate science: interactions between the ocean and the vast ice shelves fringing Antarctica.

Yet a fringe minority of our populace clings to an irrational rejection of well - established science.

Ronnie's work ranges from exploring the fringes of cutting edge health sciences, food based nutrition, innovative supplementation strategies, and a deep passion for helping people overcome long held mental and emotional road blocks so they can experience every area of their life at their full potential.

The phenomenon of UFOs has given voice to New Age passion, and offered a haven for conspiracy theorists and mavericks of fringe - science.

It is involved in MRI technologies, mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, x-ray, spark - optical emission spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and other things most of us in the investing world have a fringe understanding of at best or heard mentioned by that science nerd we know.

Self - taught artists and fringe physicists, dodgy dreamers and visionary engineers — all of them dare to think differently in this latest instalment of the Museum of Everything's explorations of outsider art that creates Wild science, eccentricity, and a world turned inside - out.

This initial research into these fringe practices of media histories and occult phenomenon led Oursler further into ideas of speculative thought, the boundaries of science, the use of the spectacular, which resonate with contemporary pop culture.

This dialogue about him being full of pontifical nonsense flows one way, without a response, this silence is a buffer extending his life span as a legitimate skeptic by default, since he can't stand the heat from real climate scientists left on the way side, crushing legitimate science away from any chance to reach a badly mislead audience, simply because he is more popular in the fringe right wing media world dwelling on sound bites and stupidity.

This shrug of resignation, so casually dismissing the downsides that science is unable to dismiss, seems to be the latest fashionable replacement for dismissal of the fact of global warming, or of its largely human origins, now that those positions are so opposed to the scientific consensus that they have been forced to the fringe.

1) deny the reality and fail to refute the fact that the mainstream climate science of the mid-1900s documented that fact that your CO2 hypothesis was never widely held and was rejected as a fringe theory that was not supported by the real world empirical data and

Those like Spencer, and possibly Stringer and Kreutzer, who believe the human influence on the climate is minimal, hold fringe views that are consistent with just 2 to 3 percent of the peer - reviewed climate science literature.

If you think it is - that climate change is nothing to worry about - then you are on the wild fringes of the debate: not a single government or science academy agrees with you.

They remain fringe extremists within the general population, in engineering, in business with strongholds in the humanities and social sciences and a presence in Marxist versions of economics.

Without a continual challenge, fringe science like AGW theory will be allowed to get away with less than rigorous practice, such as the proof of the tropospheric hotspot by wind measurements.

The increase was not so much on the hard - science side of things but rather in the emerging fringe institutes and organisations devoted, at least in part, to selling the message of climatic doom.

And there were three witnesses that actually are sort of in the fringe of scientists who do not accept the science of climate change.

Opinions of non-experts on what is «fringe» and what is «science» don't count.

Once considered fringe science, geoengineering gained respectability with an essay two years ago by chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who is something of an environmentalist hero — it was his Nobel Prize — winning work on the ozone hole that led to the ban on Freon and other ozone - destroying chemicals.

It is more than apparent that the rhetoric — superficially in the objective idiom of science — is a facade for a fringe extremist agenda.

Even in the scientific community, cloud seeding has long been relegated to «fringe science,» with the Australian Federation of Meteorology dismissing a handful of so - called «rain making» weather modification experiments conducted throughout the early part of the 20th century.

Chu is a former scientist at the fringe of science.

As climate science denial goes, Roberts» position is as far to the fringe as you can go, mixing conspiracy theories with outright rejection of the conclusions of science academies and institutions across the world that humans are causing climate change.

Kaitlin Naughten from the University of New South Wales works on one of the most pressing issues facing modern climate science: interactions between the ocean and the vast ice shelves fringing Antarctica.

While a decade ago biomimicry was a fringe science, the logic of looking at the very thing which created us and which we profess is perfect — Nature — and finding within it the solution to our problems has surfaced even on the mainstream level.

However, I couldn't get a sense of whether it is a seriously accepted idea or one on the fringes of science (and whether it has ever been studied / funded seriously)??

In a recent article here Michael Mann wrote about his NYT oped piece, where he said: «Yet a fringe minority of our populace clings to an irrational rejection of well - established science.

From my point of view as a mathematician on the fringe of the atmospheric sciences community, the battle is being won, and mostly by an overwhelming popular surge of interest in environmental issues.

Why go to all the trouble of studying for and gaining an advanced science degree, getting a job in a suitable institution and putting forward carefully researched papers for the validation of Peer Review before publlcation in a recognised scientific journal; much easier to rush some «facts» together, using all sorts of dubious sources from the madder fringes of the Green world and have them published to continue stoking the prejudices of their faithful readership.

An example of an intent to displace established climate science is the incorrect contrarian «basic» fringe claim that variations in solar activity are mostly responsible for recent global warming / climate change; this contrarian claim is demonstrably wrong because it disagrees with the data on solar activity.

We also have — at times — been accused of promoting junk science and on being on the fringe of our professional communities.

A few years ago, open access publishing was barely recognized on the fringes of science; now, it's mainstream.