Sentences with phrase «scientific decisions based on facts»

In announcing the change, President Obama emphasized the need to «make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,» yet the new policy, as well as the language that the president used to explain it, underscores that the stem cell debate is in important ways not about scientific facts at all, but about the difficulty of balancing competing moral preferences.

The Democrats» response has been to promise to «let science guide us, not ideology», to «make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology», and that «the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over».

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To ensure that «scientific data is never distorted» and that «scientific decisions are based on facts, not ideology» Obama effectively denies that there are any political judgments that can't be settled by scientific investigation.

«And DEC, the state's environmental agency, is going through an exhaustive scientific review and will make the decision based on the science and the facts,» said Cuomo.

In any case, NIH's constituent institutes are free to base their funding decisions on their own scientific and training priorities — a very important fact and one that, in my view, the institutes should take every opportunity to exploit in order to promote new investigators.

«Despite the limitations of a single arm, non-randomized study, we infer from these data that Interferon ß - 1a treatment is worth further consideration for the treatment of Ebola virus disease,» said Dr. Fish, who is also a Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto, noting that the decision to undertake the clinical trial was based on previous preliminary scientific data, and on the fact that no currently approved antivirals exist to treat Ebola.