Sentences with phrase «scientific hubris»

I refuse to fall into the same scientific hubris as AGW supporters.

The story is a cautionary tale about scientific hubris and our confidence in remaking the world and ourselves.

After the impeccable weirdness of the Southern Reach trilogy, VanderMeer offers another conceptual cautionary tale of corporate greed, scientific hubris, and precarious survival.

But it does a fine job of conjuring up Zoe's paranoia and ultimately succeeds at being a cautionary tale against scientific hubris.

Can science explain the self, or is that just neuro - scientific hubris?

First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.

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We are informed at the beginning that the signal was never decoded, and so the novel is less a story of scientific triumph than a series of ruminations on hermeneutics, the hubris of scientists, and the sociology of academic cohorts.

I just haven't seen scientific proof either way, so I try to get rid of the hubris by saying that I simply don't know if there is a god (s) or not.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

It was this new perspective more than anything else that turned gene therapy from a simple but failed and frustrated hope into, once again, medicine's next big thing — a stunning spectacle of hubris, ignominy, and redemption on the scientific stage.

In the process, Anicka Yi takes up constructions of nature and brings them to collision with scientific and colonialist hubris.

The problem is the grotesque hubris we associate with scientists who are championing scientific conclusions that we intuitively know to be MUCH shakier than they are letting on.

If ecologists really did demonstrate that there was no such thing as society (in the literal sense) one reason for this claim might be the inadequacies of ecology and ecologists» hubris, rather than the power of this scientific perspective.

Driven by the hubris of scientists like Michael Mann whose careers are totally invested in the «dire predictions» of rising CO2, the normal scientific process of challenging a hypothesis was framed as an «attack on science».

You tell each other stories with a great deal of hubris — from both sides of the climate wars — in a superficially scientific idiom.