Sentences with phrase «scientific controversy over»

The debate over the possible existence of a warming slowdown has sparked fierce scientific controversy over the past two decades.

From the University of California — Los Angeles New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth's near - space environment and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

So let this be clear: There is no scientific controversy over this.

«SCIENTIFIC controversy over «global warming» continues.

The effectiveness of the game on brain activity has sparked some scientific controversy over the years, with some studies showing that playing Brain Age has no effects on brain development.

You'll undoubtedly hear from some folks who question whether Maldives is threatened by rising seas by pointing to scientific controversies over recent sea - level trends in the Indian Ocean, so I'll put up a link to relevant published literature on Google Scholar here.

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Schools should also pay more attention to the philosophical issues raised by the controversy over creation and evolution — although attentiveness should not mean sneaking in sectarian teaching of religion under the subterfuge of «scientific creationism.»

If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta - analysis of published studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).

The controversy over bee declines has driven Pettis and vanEngelsdorp — Batman and Robin, once poised to save the bees — to separate scientific corners.

It followed up on a similar survey the union released in 2013 at the height of the controversy over the then - Conservative government's reported muzzling of scientists by preventing media interviews and curtailing travel to scientific conferences.

He still feels «frustration and sadness at how he's been treated,» The Chronicle reports; some scientists in the article describe him as «a victim of scientific bullying» and the controversy over priming as «a referendum on one man.»

The agency became embroiled in controversy last May when chief scientific officer and Nobel Prize winner Alfred Gilman quit in protest over CPRIT's scientific review processes.

Texas's $ 3 billion cancer research fund is taking more steps to defuse a controversy over the role of scientific review in making grant decisions.

Faced with a scientific controversy as complex as that now raging over cusum can lawyers, judges and juries be expected to decide between the scientific and the specious?

The controversies over sex education are also transparently moral in nature: no one is arguing over the scientific facts about reproductive biology; they are arguing about competing moral visions of proper sexual conduct.

But this is a point that students of scientific controversies have documented over more than thirty years.

Bart Verheggen: To be sure there are clashes of values underlying climate change controversy, but you, A. Lacis, Chris Colose and others continue to gloss over the problems of scientific misconduct exposed by Climategate.

The online publication of sensitive material from a British climate centre is brewing into one of the scientific controversies of the year, causing dismay among affected institutes and individuals, reports Quirin Schiermeier over on Nature News [subscription].

«Both cases, as well as the broader international controversies over whaling and sealing in the context of which they arose, illustrate the persuasive power of the «appeal to science»: enlisting scientific objectivity and rigour to underpin the credibility of legal arguments and legal norms,» says the abstract.