Sentences with phrase «papers accepted the consensus»
She found that 75 percent of papers accepted the consensus view «either explicitly or implicitly,» while «25 percent dealt with methods or paleoclimate,» and took no position on AGW.
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Once a paper is accepted, editors work with the authors to improve the manuscript and make the suggested revisions — a task that requires patience, interpersonal skills, and the ability to achieve consensus among opinionated scientists.
Here's part of the problem: Scientists are human, just like you and me, and they occasionally defend wrong ideas because they propagated in a time where some novel but wrong papers / books were written, and seemed right at the time, and the consensus accepted them, because it agreed with their biases.
A responsible skeptic will request that you remain open minded to opinions from both sides, and consider the uncertainties involved * without * prejudging them based on the demonstrable human predilection toward a «herd mentality» — by «herd mentality», I mean that once a consensus is formed, a flock of «me too» science papers become much more easily accepted, by peer review journals, than the skeptics» papers.
As we documented in our paper, research has also shown that when people are aware of the expert consensus on human - caused global warming, they're more likely to accept the science and support climate policy to address the problem.
The Journal of the American Statistical Association still publishes good papers supporting a skeptical / lukewarmist position (as does the AAAS's Science Magazine), but I expect that the board of the ASA has just raised the bar for accepting studies not supportive of the consensus.
Of all evolutionary biology papers in the sample 75 % explicitly or implicitly accept the consensus view on evolution.
Of all the papers, 75 % fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25 % dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change.