Sentences with phrase «scientific factoids»

But the truth that most people can sense is that Monbiot uses the status of scientific factoids, such as the Met Office's dubious «prediction'to convince people in the same way that a caveman seeks to persuade people with a club.

He is clothing himself in scientific factoids and dubious statistics so that he can make - believe that he is a planet - saving super-hero.

Michael Crichton has made millions by writing mass market thrillers that either regurgitate partially understood scientific factoids, or pander to the nasty little revenge fantasies of male white middle - managers.

Not exact matches

Participants improved their scores not only on factoid - type questions, but also the more complex comprehension questions, which shows that the videos improved people's scientific understanding and not just memorization.

There's a wealth of information here, organized so cleverly that it's easy to see almost immediately what the images are communicating, and the accompanying factoids and scientific concepts are often surprising.

We believe that it is, because, although Lynas appears to have «researched» the «scientific evidence», botching factoids leached from single - studies and worse case scenarios is not «sound science», it is terrifying, and it hasn't been subjected to any kind of scrutiny.

In any scientific controversy, you will find «blazing factoids» being fired back and forth across the intellectual battlefield.

As a group, scientists tend to be naive and unrealistic regarding the translation of their scientific «facts» or «factoids» into policies.

In just 1400 words he manages to cram in just about every fallacy from the environmentalist's handbook: he appeals to the dodgiest of authorities, sells politics, catastrophism and factoids as scientific truth, misrepresents his opponents» arguments, cherrypicks data, explains human behaviour in biologically deterministic terms and politics in environmentally deterministic ones, and resorts to the green equivalent of Pascal's wager while accusing «deniers» of religious zeal.

Deploying so many factoids to so little effect has made them a scientific laughingstock, and endangered what scant reputation for intellectual seriousness Republican statesmen have retained.