Sentences with phrase «scientific judgments on»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 alleged lack of scientific studies and the amount of clinical judgment involved in concussion management, and the lack of uananimity, either about grading the severity of concussions or in return to play guidelines, while it complicates our efforts to educate parents on concussions, should not be used as an excuse to do nothing.

A scientific study is not a judgment on you — each study is simply a search for another piece of the puzzle.

Dr. James McKenna, the director of the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame noted that the judgments people place on a child's development because of bed - sharing are societal and have no scientific evidence to back them up.

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

Pioneered in Denmark, consensus conferences allow a cross section of members of the public to pass judgment on controversial scientific topics.

A judgment of each estimate's reliability is given as a level of scientific understanding based on uncertainties in the climate change agents and physical understanding of their radiative effects.

While we can make assumptions and predictions based on other similar diets, the real judgment made with scientific arguments and based on evidence can not be given as of yet.

These guidelines are the product of nearly a year's work by experts in the field of autistic spectrum disorders and are based on validated scientific evidence, clinical experience and clinical judgment.

Each practitioner did his or her own thing when it came to vaccinating dogs and cats, and to make matters worse there wasn't much in the way of scientific research to base these judgments on.

On the scientific - ontological conception, the natural world as it is — independent of scientists» beliefs, goals, desires, or representations of the facts — constrains which judgments count as objective.

Another lesson learned from the scientific and moral - rationalist conceptions of objectivity is that objective judgments, on whatever conception, are constrained judgments.

Secondly, with regard to Mr. Taylor's comment about scientists potentially imposing «value judgments» and the inappropriateness of that, how can any one of us, lay or scientific, not impose a value judgment on our beloved Earth and its desperate need for healing, compassion and immediate action from all of us to create healthier living conditions for all species?

I'm not the most qualified to make a judgment on their scientific work, but the two authors seem eager to attribute those measurments to an increase of solar irradiance since 1980, though no serious discussion about the other possible mechanisms (like atmospheric changes) is made in the paper.

Nor can it be credibly asserted that the Center was until recently unaware of the manner in which Dr Soon had declared his affiliation in his scientific papers over the past quarter of a century: for a member of senior management (a botanist) has seen fit to pass judgment on the quality of Dr Soon's research (in astrophysics), from which it may legitimately be inferred that he had read — or at any rate ought to have read — at least one of Dr Soon's 60 published papers in order to come to a view on the quality of his research.

[16] Two, in so doing, they are making a political and not a scientific judgment, though they're not always clear on this point.

His judgments in this matter have been atrocious, beneath dignity, lacking in any sort of scientific integrity or common courtesy, and indicate an inability on his part to lead the NCDC.

In no way do my values suggest that debate should be curtailed: I merely insist that a scientific debate should take place in the scientific literature and that the public be put in a position where it can make an informed judgment about the voices that are opposing mainstream science on crucial issues ranging from climate change to vaccination.

Inquiring minds would like to know whether Al Gore's psychological stability has any bearing on his «scientific judgment» and consensus building skills.

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.»

Since scientific theories are not «real» the public must rely on the judgment of the experts in deciding public policy.

Following a judgment by a Dutch court that the government must step up the fight against climate change, a prominent international lawyer recently proposed that the International Court of Justice rule on climate science so that the scientific disputes in this area can be settled.

First, justifications offered for scientific research on geoengineering already involve value judgments of their own, and ethicists are trained to clarify and assess value judgments.

But if you firmly hold that you have a significant conclusion on this somewhat esoteric topic, the place to have that conclusion tested is in the published scientific literature - that's what peer review is all about, to provide a mechanism for an adjudicated evaluation and judgment of your argument by experts.

It appears clear that fair amount of actual experience of doing science in the same or analogous fields is needed, before people can make reasonable judgments on the value of specific scientific approaches.

But the only reason it is of any value to such a person is that «scientific consensus» is not something scientists themselves treat as relevant evidence when they exercise professional judgment on matters w / i the domain of their expertise.

This tells us something important about the judgment of the scientific community that expects us to trust that exact same judgment on the question of whether global warming is the fault of human beings.

I also find that many of those who might be categorized in the identified groups on AGW are in that category not so much for their judgment on the scientific evidence but rather their grounding in the politics of the matter.

Guidance developed by Moss and Schneider (2000) for the IPCC on dealing with uncertainty describes two key attributes that they argue are important in any judgment about climate change: the amount of evidence available to support the judgment being made and the degree of consensus within the scientific community about that judgment.

Then, after the scientific community has come close to their point of closure or look like they can have no closure on the «hide the decline» team, our culture will pass its judgment on the existing scientific community as a whole.

Richard, the IPCC (reports) are based on scientific rigour, hard facts, accumulated meaningful evidence, dialectic argument, and rational reasoned best judgments.

Who is the «we» who should be making judgments on the anthropocene, even within the constrained scientific debate?

The real fantasists here are those like CJ who imagine that they can stand judgment on 200 years of cumulative scientific knowledge, by rubbishing all those men and women who have established the understanding we now have, including the scientific evidence for global warming resulting from human activities that is now incontrovertible.

Edwards Lifesciences LLC & Ors v Boston Scientific Scimed Inc [2018] EWCA Civ 673 (28 March 2018)-- a Court of Appeal judgment on obviousness and expert witnesses.

Giving judgment in R (on the application of Dimmock) v Secretary of State for Education and Skills [2007] EWHC 2288 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 117 (Oct) Mr Justice Burton said the DVD contained many factual and scientific errors, but that the guidance notes (in their amended version) could shift the perceived motive for the distribution of the DVD from its original objective of «influenc [ing] the opinions of children» to a new objective of «stimulat [ing] children into discussing climate change and global warming in school classes».

But ultimately these judgments rest not on the scientific or social facts as such, but on moral judgment calls about how one evaluates these facts.

The Court of Appeal judges used their judgment on two preliminary issues (in particular, whether Dr Singh could use the defence of «fair comment») to mount a robust and somewhat lyrical defence (quoting Milton, amongst other things) of the right to scientific freedom of expression.