Sentences with phrase «rigorous scientific application»

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The Center provides them with resources for both blue - sky and de-risking work: blue - sky research follows up on promising but uncertain scientific leads; while de-risking research is necessary to move a promising biomedical discovery through all the rigorous tests required for clinical applications.

So, just as in the law we have two criminal procedures: criminal law where the requirement is «proof beyond reasonable doubt» and civil law «on the balance of probabilities», I personally think it is time we had Science (proof by experiment, the null hypothesis — proof beyond all reasonable doubt) and «science» (soft science)... where assertions are made using rigorous assessment of the data and the application of known scientific principles, but assertions have to be made which can not be subject to the full rigours of the scientific methodology.

For policymakers these details matter, for they need to know if they are acting on the best of scientific knowledge, acquired through the application of the most rigorous of scientific practices and observation of scientific ethics, or whether well - intentioned scientist - activists are shaping climate policy on the basis of less - than - transparent scientific practices — and I refer here to even minor oversights or the exclusion of seemingly trivial caveats that may take on great importance in an unpredicted future — and unstated personal and political aims.

A «scientific concept» may come from philosophy, logic, economics, jurisprudence, or other analytic enterprises, as long as it is a rigorous conceptual tool that may be summed up succinctly (or «in a phrase») but has broad application to understanding the world.