Sentences with phrase «often junk science»

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And in my kids» science class I often hear of junk - food - based projects like the one that used corn syrup, red hots, and other candy to demonstrate the circulatory system.

But crib mattress marketers that play on these fears to sell $ 400 eco options often peddle junk science — these folks claim «polyurethane foam» and «waterproof covers made of polyvinyl chloride or PVC» are dangerous, cause cancer, etc..

Dr Kat Arney, science communication manager at Cancer Research UK, said: «Only a tiny fraction of our DNA contains actual genes, and we know that at least some of the bits in between — often dismissed as «junk» — play important roles in controlling how genes get switched on and off at the right time and in the right place.

Looks can often be deceiving, as RoboCop is, underneath the junk cinema exterior, one of the more intelligent and savvy thrillers of the science fiction genre, perhaps only bested by The Terminator in terms of blending intelligent, complex sci - fi with all - out supercharged action.

He has spoken often for DDP, on such topics as global warming in courts, the litigation epidemic, that litigation and junk science helped bring down the World Trade Center, and that great thinkers are almost entirely created via home schooling.

Unfortunately the public policy science is often identified a «junk» because it isn't research science and this prevents it from being accepted in the courts.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

Yet they collude by embracing trendy, rigid, group hysteria inflamed, secular religions such as this latest one, courtesy of paid advertising professionals flogging what is often unquestioned junk science.

Notably, the term «Junk Science» was often used by by Steve «The Junkman» Milloy.

In their book Trust Us, We're Experts (2001), they write that industries have launched multi-million-dollar campaigns to position certain theories as «junk science» in the popular mind, often failing to employ the scientific method themselves.