Sentences with phrase «science scepticism»

In 1998 major fossil fuel companies put $ 2m behind a plan that would effectively fuel the fires of climate science scepticism among the American public.

-LRB-...) There are now thousands of computer geeks and politically motivated bloggers contributing more to the development of the global warming story than the blog philosophers of science scepticism like Goldacre and Randi.»

Judith, I'd contend that there is a greater difference between the scientific consensus position and that of science scepticism with regard to uncertainties, even if there is little to distinguish them in the science.

Not exact matches

Leonard Ares outlines Rene Descartes» attempt to prevent human knowledge, especially concerning the existence of God, from being undermined by a new scepticism and a new science.

«It is the steady, ongoing, never - slackening fight against scepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and supersti tion, which religion and science wage together.

ED Science is about child - like faith not Scepticism.

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

A snapshot of views on evolutionary science in the UK reveals a surprising level of scepticism.

The AfD did not make election statements on science, and declined to answer Nature's questions before the election, but party leaders have previously expressed climate scepticism and distrust of genetic engineering.

Science is organised scepticism and the consensus must shift in light of the evidence.

You rightly inveigh against the polluting of science teaching with falsehoods such as climate scepticism, intelligent design and creationism (25 February, p 3).

The next time Texas purchases science textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, Caliscience textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, CaliScience Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, California.

It's hard to know just how far this view has seeped into mainstream climate scepticism, but the themes of corrupt science and cheating and lying climate scientists are widely disseminated on sceptic blogs and other outlets.

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.

Oscarology is not an exact science and quite why it has done so spectacularly well is still a bit of a mystery to me, but the time has come for those, like me, who have treated the film with a touch of friendly scepticism to wake up to an important part of what made it so compelling: its differentness, its originality.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

I would suggest the scepticism about the science in America is due to a combination of religious, cultural and political reasons, a strong adeherence to the motor vehicle, and a particularly powerful climate denialist network

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.

However, since scepticism has a (justifiably) long and noble tradition in science, the framing device is quite powerful (despite the lack of connection with any actual scepticism).

Of course we have probably all had at least some scepticism of aspects of climate science, but we examine these things, and realise the flaws in denier myths and move on.

I know I probably wont convince Victor but I comment because 1) For the benefit of more astute and open minded readers and 2) I'm interested in climate change science and also the psychological dimensions of scepticism 3) the mental exercise 4) I live alone right now and get bored with television and 5) I enjoy a bit of argument and 7) Obviously scepticism has its place.

The goal of science is to come closer to a comprehensive picture of how the real world works, with scepticism essential to toughening up scientific ideas, though alone, it is insufficient to move understanding forward.

Thanks to Douglas Hoyt for providing the science which justifies your scepticism.

But it does show in fact, that climate scepticism — even if it is «motivated» (and only motivated to the same extent as its counterpart)-- does contribute to the production of good climate science.

One of the prime drivers of my scepticism is that so many of the champions of the AGW theory feel free to grossly exagerate the science and the likely impacts and have agendas that have little to do with addressing climate change.

Regarding scepticism in and of itself, even of long - standing and strongly confirmed theories, as somehow undesirable in science seems to me to get it backwards.

* On climate science, our members and supporters cover a broad range of different views, from the IPCC position through agnosticism to outright scepticism.

Amongst those who don't understand the science (which is most people), AGW scepticism has for a long time been associated in people's minds with a hard core political point - of - view of the sort that that thinks Pres. Obama is allied to terrorism, the world being taken over by neo-Marxists etc etc..

I hope you will not think too poorly of Brisbane, most people I talk to here, including science academics, share a degree of scepticism as well.

Science thrives on scepticism — welcome to a place of true scientific discussion.

Mosher Since virtually all funding for climate science comes from the state, and is thus precommitted to a finding of alarmism, your recommendation for a fecund scepticism is.....?

Caveats are essential to science, being born in scepticism, which is essential to the process of investigation and verification.

So I'd like to throw this back to you Geoff — if things like the NEP are flawed, and if you see our scales for measuring climate change scepticism and its relationship to ideology as not capturing the essence of why people are sceptical about climate change, how should social science seek to understand people's beliefs about the environment and climate change?

Reposted with permission from Enthusiasm, Scepticism and Science John Haughton writes of it under the heading: Meetings that Changed the World.

Thus, scepticism makes a concession to environmentalism: all you need is the right science, and then you'll know what to do.

«This is neither scepticism nor science - just nonsense,» The Guardian, October 23, 2004.

Around 2007 — which we now know was «peak climate» time — I decided that I ought to learn something about climate science and was rapidly set on the path to scepticism by Connolley at Wikipedia and the Team at RC behaving in a manner quite alien to my understanding of science.

For instance, in February, Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee called for submissions to an inquiry into the public's understanding of climate change, following a report that had advised that «should scepticism continue to increase, democratic governments are likely to find it harder to convince voters to support costly environmental policies aimed at mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change.»

However, in spite of the title of the paper linking the idea that the moon landings were faked with scepticism of climate science, just 10 of 1145 respondents either «agreed» or «strongly agreed» with the statement «The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in a Hollywood film studio».

On his view, climate scepticism is a «rejection of climate science», which sits in contrast to «pro science» opinion.

I got into climate scepticism because I really dislike bad science.

Revisiting that now, nothing has changed, other than my original agnosticism about the science and scepticism about the politics have been strengthened.

Part of the reason why climate scepticism has been so effective is that we all want the science to be false.

Her climate science denial did not appear in the broadcast, but the ABC did ask her about it and has released the answers to a series of questions on the issue of climate change and her promotion of climate scepticism.

According to Hickman, the BNP and UKIP's climate manifesto either doubts or rejects climate science, which is «proof» that climate scepticism is «ideological».

(In the UK, only two political parties — Ukip and the BNP — proudly state in their manifestos that they doubt, or reject, climate science; proof, if it were ever needed, that climate scepticism is predominantly built upon a foundation of ideology rather than science.

««The writing is a well - researched investigation into the continuing fabrication of the defence of Climate Change «scepticism», which amounts to a long narrative of invention, first of outright denial of the science of Global Warming, then of foot - dragging delay being urged on all Governments.»

From Paul Matthew's Climate Scepticism blog: In the blogosphere, the hoax paper by Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac, NASA faked the moon landing — therefore, (climate) science is a hoax was exposed soon after it came out — see blog posts by Jo Nova, Steve McIntyre, Brandon Shollenberger, José Duarte and many others.

How do scientists resolve these kind of disputes — bearing in mind that such disputes are the very stuff of science, the essence of true scepticism?

Applying organized scepticism to ocean acidification research ICES Journal of Marine Science Oxford Academic