Sentences with phrase «politics over science»

It is a classic example of the power of PR and politics over science.

WASHINGTON - President - elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.

======================================================================= The EPA definition of CO2 as a pollutant, legal or not, is a travesty of politics over science.

I can't believe people choose politics over science.

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It's bad enough this exists in religion, but to make matters worse that attitude spills over into other areas, such as politics, and for lay people, even science.

At present, the rediscovery of culture in the social sciences, at the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culture.

The ascendancy of techno - politics also assumes that human behavior has been rendered docile - the victory of administrative science over practical statesmanship is based on an exaggerated version of Montesquieu's prediction that a turn to commercial pursuits would usher in a general «softening of mores.»

Aristotle is often cited, for holding that morality and politics — unlike natural science — lack special experts, and that in these areas, human experience over generations is the main source of knowledge.

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

In fact, politics seemed to trump science in discussions over the last two years, said Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a member of the Bulletin's Science and Securityscience in discussions over the last two years, said Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a member of the Bulletin's Science and SecurityScience and Security board.

Then, FDA was accused of putting politics before science and resisting a move to provide Plan B over the counter to adults and teens alike.

If the NRA succeeds in blocking this attempt to bring science to bear on America's gun problem, it will be another demoralising example of the power of money over evidence - based politics.

At a time when our toxic politics threatens the integrity of our institutions and shared truths are lost to partisan disagreements over basic facts, scientists are rightly worried about the place of science in America.

Over the years, science has given way to raw politics as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and supporters of DOE's repository project in Congress have sought to obfuscate and compensate for an ever - multiplying set of flaws and problems with the site and with the notion of transporting unprecedented amounts of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level nuclear waste across the country.

I mean, one of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is to make sure that we are promoting the integrity of our scientific process; that not just in the physical and life sciences, but also in fields like psychology and anthropology and economics and political science — all of which are sciences because scholars develop and test hypotheses and subject them to peer review — but in all the sciences, we've got to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they're not subject to politics, that they're not skewed by an agenda, that, as I said before, we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us.

All joking aside, this thread highlights a trend I see in much of the RC blogs...... drifting over into commentary / politics / hype versus sticking to science.

Not because she was initially being naive and over optimistic, but because she makes little or no attempt to help separate the science from the politics.

The president chose the politics of a few over sound science and fundamental economics, ideology over the national interest, to cause a stunning defeat for the United States, American energy security and America's energy partnership with Canada — and a stunning victory for countries like Venezuela, which will benefit from the U.S. saying no to the oil Keystone XL would bring from Canada and the U.S. Bakken region.

Judith My compliments on your effort to separate the science from the politics, and to get the political debate going over energy & climate.

These acts of speech and silence also open up spaces for power struggles over who should speak (for whom), who has the right to speak (about what), how to deliberate about science and politics, what the outcomes of these deliberations should be, and so on.

Svensmark was presumably naïve — no, extremely naïve — because he was so idealistic as to prefer science over politics.

When outlets such as The New York Times finally weighed in, their stories tended to confuse climate politics (the debate over what to do about GW) and climate science (that debate over what we know about the Earth and our influence upon it).

These scientists have used the IPCC to jump the normal meritocracy process by which scientists achieve influence over the politics of science and policy.

Politics has taken over policy in regards to 2), pushing aside the science anyways or riding it for political reasons, until they throw it aside to get elected.

In this special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Professor Michael E Mann will discuss the science, politics, and ethical dimensions of global warming in the context of his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of the debate over human - caused climate change.

Your original post was about «a cadre of scientists whose careers have been made by the IPCC [and] used the IPCC to jump the normal meritocracy process by which scientists achieve influence over the politics of science and policy.»

The punishment for being venal is probably wealth (nobody said life was fair) but not in science per se — you usually have to go over to the Dark Side — applications and engineering and patents and business or politics — for that.

Oh, and as to the Bush administration censoring science, I was following the politics of that struggle long before the climate debate exploded over the internet.

But what the squabble over the Sunday Politics interview reveals is that political debates descend to science; they are often not improved by science and evidence as much as they degraded by undue expectations of them.

A relationship between science and politics exists before the panel has been assembled, much less cast its collective eye over the scientific literature.

That's the type of problem that is addressed by Management Science as an umbrella over and separate from «Policy» and «Politics» and «Climate Science» and «Econometrics» and «Commerce».

But a few figures, relying on their authority as «scientists» have dragged the debate over the science into the mud of politics.

Increasingly, Environmentalists are drawing on the putative certainties of science — «The debate is over», «The science is in» — rather than its inherent provisionality, to support their politics.

As soon as the words left his mouth, America got another taste of its favorite false controversy: the one over whether climate change should rightly be placed under the rubric of «science» or «politics.»

For over a decade, energy PR men with no understanding of climate science, let alone climate models or the politics of science have been throwing anything and everything that comes to hand in the general direction of the media.

As such, I concluded that if identification is granted precedence over evaluation then science — which deals primarily with the identification of reality — must be granted precedence over politics and ideology — which attempt to provide guidance to our actions in how we deal with one - another — which is itself derivative of how we live in relation to reality.

We've seen the spheres of politics and sciences conflate more than usual over the last few years — but now we're actually seeing the former trying to ram the other down.

Not too many articles about profit and / or politics trumping science, as has happened quite often over the past few years — just tongue - clucking over those stupid hippies letting their dogmatism overshadow the usefulness of DDT.

Those PhD's then proceed to dwell on the manufactured controversies around the politics, as if J&J Public can meaningfully parse a 12 part series about the politics of science over morning coffee, further muddying the public perceptions of the objective reality we face by opening the discussion to opinion in the name of «balance».

It is crystal clear that the FDA has chosen politics over legitimate science,» said PPFA Interim President Karen Pearl.

Planned Parenthood Applauds Senators Clinton and Murray for Putting Women's Health over Politics; Demands FDA Stick to the Science