Sentences with phrase «scientific judgment»

But critics charge the carbon math for these power plants is far more complicated, and that the amendment seeks to replace scientific judgment with a political declaration.

Such a panel can not be relied upon for impartial scientific judgment.

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

The Obama administration's Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released earlier this month, are supposed to represent the best scientific judgments on what people need to do to stay healthy.

Lacking scientific judgment, the press and policy makers tend to accept the warnings of popularizers, thereby ignoring the pseudo-science that undergirds their suppositions.

Whereas scientific judgment depends upon regularities, moral judgment must cope with singulars.

The recognition of scientific expertise — the very stuff that enables scientists to build on prior results — at the same time makes scientific judgments inescapably personal and historical, undermining our deepest wishes for knowledge that might somehow be transcendent.»

It seems clear to me that if a group (such as EPA) wanted to get an objective scientific judgment on climate change science, CRU et al., and therefore the IPCC, might be the last place that they would want to rely on.

It is an aspect of human culture about which a scientific judgment can be made as to the most advantageous form of domestic relationship.

When the proclaimers go beyond the Gospel and insist on the soundness of prudential and scientific judgments that they are not equipped to make, they weaken the authority of their witness.

The Nussenzweigs learned early to trust their scientific judgment and rely on each other.

That is a threshhold beyond which serious harm is likely to occur to human civilization as well as the natural world, by the IPCC and other's scientific judgment.

Such decisions are best left to peer review and the scientific judgment of NIH staff, Moore says.

Phillip Clapham, a cetacean biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Mammal Laboratory who has worked extensively with Monnett, says that he and others «never had any reason to question his scientific judgment as anything other than excellent.

In my 40 years as a scientist, I have certainly seen some of my colleagues, acting in their role as normal human beings, occasionally get carried away in their enthusiasm and let nons - cientific biases affect the way they represent their scientific judgment to the public.

The Justice Department claims the appeal is necessary to defend the integrity of the FDA's drug approval process, and the agency's ability to base its decisions on expert «scientific judgments.»

I have read as much about this controversy as I ever intend to, and come to the firm conviction that I don't have the technical background and / or time required to make a scientific judgment on the issue one way or another.

Regarding the e-mail from Michael Mann to Andy Revkin, Mann's statements reflect his scientific judgment that the McIntyre and McKitrick (2005) paper was flawed.

Wrong,» together with any similar term, i.e., «unsupported,» «scientifically unjustified,» «misleading,» and even «misrepresentation» are scientific judgments that do not necessarily impute a knowing, intentional, deliberate effort to impart false information for the purpose of gaining an unfair advantage or to injure another person.

EPA's view: «Regarding the e-mail from Michael Mann to Andy Revkin, Mann's statements reflect his scientific judgment that the McIntyre and McKitrick (2005) paper was flawed.»

I'm sure that doesn't affect their scientific judgment, however.

That their supposedly «scientific judgment» deserves more attention than the non-scientific judgment of the rest of us.

No, they're activists camouflaging their personal, philosophical, and political worldview as «scientific judgment.»

Purely political opinions are being camouflaged as «scientific judgment.»