Sentences with phrase «scepticism given»

«The New York Times story contains no new evidence - it relies on unsubstantiated allegations from unnamed sources or claims from disgruntled former employees that should be treated with extreme scepticism given the reasons for their departures from this newspaper.

The News of the World said: «The New York Times story contains no new evidence — it relies on unsubstantiated allegations from unnamed sources or claims from disgruntled former employees that should be treated with extreme scepticism given the reasons for their departures from this newspaper.

Not exact matches

Father Lombardi said Benedict XVI recalled «above all the cultural crisis of the West that exploded in «68, with the fascination for Marxism and the illusion of creating a new world, and the crumbling of the communist regimes in «89: the fall of the ideologies that did not give room to faith but rather to scepticism.

While the book gives an interesting summary of various authors who have argued that it was the Protestant Reformation that gave rise to atheism, the author fails to note any connection between the rejection (traceable from nominalism) of reason's capacity to know reality, the Protestant Reformation's appeal to faith against reason, intellectual scepticism and current postmodernism.

In almost every case, it's the indifference, scepticism, or distrust of the church's endorsements / disqualifications which give the impetus to the formation of the new group.

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

It will take more time and political leadership for the scepticism to give way.

However, this widespread scepticism of the merits of the free market has given way to a powerful critique of the state and the government insofar as the state did not only exacerbate the economic downturn, but was the source of its creation.

The BHA has long - standing concerns about Steiner schools including pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

If the PM needed a little reminder of the public's scepticism about Westminster politics, he needed to look no further than the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), which was going out of its way to give politicians a bad name.

The sample size was only 404, so give it due scepticism, I mention it solely to knock down the lazy assumption I occassionally see that all public sector workers are Labour voters.

The ceasefire agreement was expectedly greeted with scepticism by the Nigerian military, who gave the sect a period of one month during which there had to be no attacks on any public place or military installation before they would take them seriously.

A lot of people expressed scepticism of Wojcicki's point on social media, but Scripps Research Institute's Eric Topol, told Gizmodo that he felt Wojcicki's comparison was apt — arguing that consumers are frequently much more savvy than doctors give them credit for.

The Science Media Centre has produced a summary that sheds some light on why many scientists are increasingly dismayed by Antinori's activities: 1993 A British millionairess (59) gave birth to twins boys after fertility treatment by Dr Antinori, who said «The rich women from England.it's a very good story» 1999 It was reported, to the undisguised scepticism of many fertility experts, that Antinori had found a way of had helping infertile men by taking sperm producing element out of human testes and implanting them in rat testes, so that the rats would produce viable human sperm.

As the recent findings regarding salt levels in gluten - free snacks shows, a level of scepticism should be given to perceptions that all free - from versions are healthier alternatives.

«Such actions are not surprising, given that Activision is run by a CEO who has been publicly quoted as believing that the best way to run a video game studio is to engender a culture of «scepticism, pessimism and fear» and prefers to pay his lawyers instead of his employees.

Eurogamer has heard from a number of sources close to 22Cans that there is scepticism internally about multiplayer ever coming to Godus, given most of the 24 or so staff at the studio have been moved onto The Trail.

I don't expect it to be a monumental failure akin to No Man's Sky, but given the fact that two industry giants have walked away from the project, a certain amount of scepticism should be taken.

This species of scepticism is fatal to knowledge, not to religion; since we find, that those who make greatest profession of it, give often their assent, not only to the great truths of Theism and natural theology, but even to the most absurd tenets which a traditional superstition has recommended to them.

It's useful to think of this as an example of Bayesian priors in action — given that 99 % of the criticisms we hear about climate science are bogus or based on deep confusions about what modeling is for, scepticism is an appropriate first response, but because we are actually scientists, not shills, we are happy to correct real errors — sometimes they will matter, and sometimes they won't.

Given the arrogance I have seen over the years coming from Universities, and which I am afraid I see regularly on this blog only tends to confirm the mild, but increasing scepticism I have developed towards Climate Change — aka global warming.

... but as much as anyone it was Gavin who gave me the initial push towards climate scepticism or denialism or lukewarmism or what - have - you.

Of course I have read a lot of other stuff (at least 1.5 metres on my crowded bookshelf), but as much as anyone it was Gavin who gave me the initial push towards climate scepticism or denialism or lukewarmism or what - have - you.

By making a caricature of Monckton, Delingpole, and climate scepticism, the BBC reveals itself as the same kind of beast it attempted to slay: given to dogma, unwilling to countenance either debate or dissent, and failing to reflect on its function as an impartial broadcaster.

In fact I think you see it surfacing now with some commentators accepting the arguments now being heard from Roger Pielke Jr that the obsession with scepticism holding back action is a real waste of time that seems only designed to both give excuses for the failures, and sense of purpose to alarmists.

Given the increasing realisation that climate mitigation efforts are creating an economic crisis, and increasing popular scepticism about the alarmist scenario, this is a timely publication, and a key resource for all of us who are arguing for common sense.

Merriam - Webster gives scepticism as «an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity».

He gave the impression that he was talking to ALL of us about ALL scepticism.

Our major national radio system, for example, rarely provides an airing for any sceptic (I have been an exception), and argues that the weight of scientific authority against scepticism is so great that it would be simply wrong to give sceptics any more time.

And, given the volume of evidence that has accumulated on the issue, only an adherent of some very strong form of scepticism could reasonably remain undecided.

The few hours of programming that have been broadcast on UK television networks that have given an airing to scepticism have become the object of anger.

Others claim that the feckless public's scepticism and denial are the result of conspiracies to distort science's message, or that a «balance» of views in the media gives a credibility to false ideas.

It serves to orientate the frameworks through which the world is seen and gives structure to the arguments about what is good / bad, right / wrong, forward / backward, and in the case where climate scepticism and denial is judged to be equivalent to Conservatism, Left / Right.

Changing direction, Anthony Watts gives Professor Muller great deference and the benefit of the doubt regarding his motives and earnestness re: his alleged conversion from scepticism to believing the mainstream theory.

Approximately 60 of the 154 sceptics give this as a factor motivating their scepticism.»

Warmers who read this blog might also observe the short shrift we've given to casual claims of geometrical congruence between immoral arguments of the past and climate change scepticism, and decide that we are hypocrites.

The real object of scepticism, then, might be no more than the over-extension of the climate narrative, which may have rather more read into it than was given to it from science.

The lack of scepticism on here about an homogenized, gridded data set is interesting given the response to other such data.

It says that the Paris summit was «noticeably different to that of the Copenhagen summit in terms of the low amount of space given by the media to various types of climate scepticism».

The remedy of course being to give more money to The Renewable Bandits of Solar and Wind and even more The UN and all the associated Climate Fund Scammers and, in some cases, silencing dissent, and even Criminalising Scepticism.