Sentences with phrase «science as a threat»

Only 2 per cent see science as a threat to religion.

This is a time when some «see science as a threat either to their profit margins or their beliefs can not stand up against the momentum,» Biden said, urging scientists to defend the advances made by the scientific enterprise.

«It's not very constructive to attempt to paint science as a threat to society — which it clearly is not.

I had a bit of an «a-ha» moment reading this paper by the excellent Australian political scientist Clive Hamilton, in which he argues that a great many American conservatives have come to see climate science as a threat to their core ideological identity.

Not exact matches

Gates dubs Mukherjee a «a quadruple threat,» as he not only takes care of patients, teaches medical students, and conducts research, but also pens Pulitzer Prize - winning science books.

These people are reminders that science is not a threat to be feared, but a journey we can embrace with confidence, knowing that all truth can only be revealed as God's truth.

For many scientists, religion is viewed as an obstacle to doing good science and a constant threat to freedom of inquiry.

The first threat, that from naturalism, directly challenges the presuppositions upon which science as we know it was originally based — presuppositions which, though undoubtedly absent from the consciousness of many contemporary scientists, were quite clearly on the minds of those who pioneered modern science.

The resources of the scientific community, including the social and behavioral disciplines as well as the natural sciences, need to be mobilized on an emergency basis to invent creative tactics to lessen the threats of war, pollution, and population.

According to the pessimists, science, industry, and bureaucracy — as well as technology — illustrate this threat to humanity.

Rome's remembered obscurantism on such matters as biblical studies, natural science, and historical development made even potential threats seem intolerable to many educators of loyal but scholarly faith.

So to fundamentalist structures as we've seen rise in post-war America, science is actually a threat to those kinds of systems because it gives people the cognitive tools to question the assumptions of the collective fundamentalist ideology.

Since the advent of formal experimental methodology science has, sadly, been widely perceived as a threat to traditional Christianity.

Kant recognized that Hume's attack on such categories as substance and causality was a radical threat not only to metaphysics and theology but also to science and morality.

In an op - ed for The Post last year, three psychiatrists wrote that although the benefits of breast - feeding are backed by science, «the recommendations carry the force of a threat: If I don't breastfeed, my child is more likely to get sick; if I don't breastfeed, my child won't be as smart; if I don't breastfeed, I'm not a good mother.

How can science diplomacy be used as a foundation for improving capacity, knowledge and networks to detect, predict and mitigate disease threats?

In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious John Maddox Prize for her pursuit of sound science in the face of death threats, lawsuits and personal attacks stemming from her work as an expert witness in prosecutions resting on false memories.

Do you regard the ID movement as a threat to science?

The Institute plays a key role as the lead military medical research laboratory for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

Before that, he was an STPF fellow serving at DoD where he led efforts to bridge computational and social sciences in such areas as social network analysis to help foresee emerging threats.

«Informing citizens about the health of the nation and discussing pivotal science and policy issues such as mental health, chronic and emerging diseases and other public health threats, and vaccine research are important to not only advance the national dialogue but also improve the country's overall well - being.»

She became almost evangelical about climate change — something she had previously described as «not an exact science» — and implored her counterparts in the other river states to plan for the threat it posed to Southwestern cities.

«The scope of the epidemic and the fact that cases were imported into the United States and Europe reinforces the importance of these viruses as pathogens and public health threats, and drives home for us the idea that we need to be looking really seriously at ways we can translate our basic science into potential therapeutics.

But some prominent academics, especially in the social sciences, saw the proposal as a threat to the French language.

So, starting on February 28th, I will be debuting as the host of a new series on the Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet, and this is a series in which, each week, the format is I take a look at some kind of big natural threat, things like hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and the like, and I explore what we understand, the science of how these things work and where they came from and how they stop and then we figure out, well, how can we use this knowledge to our advantage.

We are now getting a real sense of how cholera is moving across the globe, and with that information we can inform improved control strategies as well as basic science to better understand how a simple bacterium continues to pose such a threat to human health.»

Hefty federal deficits in Canada and the United States pose a significant threat to fundamental, basic research as some policymakers seem to value near - term, industry - focused science more highly.

JAPAN's position as a technological leader is under threat, say the authors of the country's latest White Paper on Science and Technology.

Llewellyn Smith told ScienceInsider that since the United States was still doing well in science, China's impending ascension should be «viewed as a good thing» rather than as a threat.

As Science News and Next Wave recently reported, the U.S. government is adding more resources to its science budget for addressing non-conventional tScience News and Next Wave recently reported, the U.S. government is adding more resources to its science budget for addressing non-conventional tscience budget for addressing non-conventional threats.

«With coral reefs facing a myriad of threats,» said Kimberly Puglise, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, «the finding of extensive reefs off Maui provides managers with a unique opportunity to ensure that future activities in the region, such as cable laying, dredging dump sites, and deep sewer outfalls, do not irreparably damage these reefs.»

The chance of the Academy being dissolved became a political threat in 1948 when the Hungarian Workers» Party, which wanted «to establish the uppermost directing organ of Hungarian science», had stood up the Hungarian Scientific Council, an organ of government, a ministry of science as against the Academy dragging on a yearly 100 000 forint state subsidy.

CIUDAD OBREGÓN, Mexico (CIMMYT)-- As more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern Mexico to address threats to global nutrition and food security, 9 outstanding young women wheat scientists among them showed that this effort will be strengthened by diversity.

As the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industrAs the principal associate director, Wisoff will continue to be responsible for ensuring the safe operation of NIF as a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industras a world - class user facility in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship mission; partnering with Laboratory capabilities to establish leadership in Stockpile Stewardship science associated with inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics; overseeing the development of advanced laser systems, related optical and target systems, control systems and systems engineering capability for research, commercial and government agencies; and maintaining close partnerships with the Department of Energy / NNSA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, academia and private industry.

«Still, we know sufficiently little about nutrition and the cumulative effects of food science that some aren't so convinced (of course, there is also the threat of any harmful substances present getting released upon cooking, such as the diacetyl blamed for «popcorn lung.»)

Alex Garland's debut carries a mean exploitation streak, and uses a science fiction threat as a lure to explore a few older and darker issues.

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

«No Such Thing as Werewolves» is a science fiction novel that brings together ancient civilizations, an apocalyptic threat, and werewolves — the result is a story that's tense and exciting...»

All other publishers seemed to see the future as a threat, even other science fiction publishers.

As an advocate of trap - neuter - return working for one of that nation's leading animal welfare organizations, Best Friends Animal Society — and somebody quite familiar with the science surrounding TNR and free - roaming cats in general — I feel compelled to respond to R. Scott Nolen's recent article («Cats may be greater threat to wildlife than first thought,» JAVMA News, April 1, 2013) about the paper published earlier this year by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Taking place on board the claustrophobic corridors of the SPS Valkenburg, a deep space exploration and science ship, Syndrome teems with physical threats and psychologic sci - fi horror as you use stealth and evasion to explore the desolate spaceship and unravel the catastrophic events that led to its demise.

This exhibition will explore how the poppy became the symbol for remembrance, provide an opportunity for contemplation and reflection on loss and recovery, as well as look at the science of poppy biodiversity, the many species of poppies worldwide and the threats to their existence.

«Those regarding climate science as a means of delivering the electorate from an existential threat» will do what they do.

Those regarding climate science as a means of delivering the electorate from an existential threat will issue a press release whenever a substantive addition to that discipline is published.

Researchers in the social sciences have explored the relationship of media exposure to attitudes and fears before, with the answer being a qualified yes, as in this 2005 study, «News Media Use and Perceptions of Global Threat.»

This means, as has been discussed here before, that anyone who cares about jogging societies to act in the face of looming threats — whether in the media, sciences, education, arts or elsewhere — would do well to stop pointing fingers and get busy experimenting with new ways to tell the stories of our time as humanity's growth spurt crests.

That case, which was widely viewed as politically motivated, galvanized the climate science community because of the threat it posed to academic freedom and scientific inquiry.

Moreover, the former employees and the documents echoed what Garvey had said: that Exxon wanted to do rigorous science not just to understand a phenomenon that posed a threat to its business, but because the company saw it as the best way to earn an authoritative voice in future policymaking.

The 840 - page National Climate Assessment, published this week, was described by John Holdren, the White House science adviser, as the «loudest and clearest alarm bell to date signalling the need to take urgent action to combat the threats to Americans from climate change».