Within hours after the Daily Mail ran a strongly supportive news piece about our paper, an EU - funded environmentalist extremist group had telephoned round and obtained instaquotes from half a dozen rent - by - the - hour «scientists» about our paper, but, as our point - by - point refutation demonstrates, several of them had not even read it and not one had raised a serious
scientific objection to it.
I'm guessing that is another thing that you would be incapable of offering
a scientific objection to.
You will at once see that there can be
no scientific objection to a consideration of prayer so far as I have described it.
because
the scientific objections to creationism melt down if you take the Gen. chapt.
Not exact matches
As I've chronicled extensively, Exondys is an extremely controversial treatment, and the FDA's decision
to approve the therapy over the
objections of the agency's own
scientific staff stunned many observers last year, raising questions about whether or not the FDA had succumbed
to a well - orchestrated and heart - wrenching PR campaign by patients and advocates.
Your
objections to the aforementioned
scientific principles have been answered innumerable times and you a clearly ignoring the answers.
This
objection is, for the lack of a better name, nothing more than «egg mysticism»: the belief that eggs are somehow so potently driven
to create zygotes that no
scientific manipulation will prove capable of deflecting the egg from its preordained path.
This is the reason for my
objection to Sheldrake's attempt
to bring formative causation into the focus of
scientific objectification.
People will throw up so called «
scientific»
objections to prevent them from believing the truth of the Bible.
These
objections are likely
to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual
to whom man's existence as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not as a
scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him
to formulate the insights he has attained.
Mr. Conway - Morris refers
to the many
objections» raised against «Din the
scientific community, but fails
to cite a single example.
If they try
to state
scientific objections, they are disqualified instantly by definitions devised for that purpose by their adversaries.
I would like
to explore further the presuppositions of this common «
scientific»
objection to teleology.
Hartshorne does admit that panpsychism appears incredible
to common sense at such points as the suggestion that stones may have feelings or be composed of sentient entities; but he counters the force of this
objection by pointing out that such
scientific conceptions as atomic and cellular structures of plants and animals also greatly transcend common sense.
On the
scientific front, the principal
objection to reproductive cloning is the enormous inefficiency of the process, which may require hundreds of attempts
to create a viable animal.
However, the main
objections to vaccination are not
scientific but practical.
Japan conducts such «
scientific whaling» in the Antarctic's Southern Ocean and North Pacific, while Iceland and Norway filed
objections to the overall moratorium, a position that allows them
to continue their hunts.
The university's final
objection, he says, is that releasing the information may violate a 1986 U.K. law known as the Animal
Scientific Procedures Act (ASPA), which prohibits disclosure of information in project licenses
to third parties.
Lots of Australian
scientific researchers have worked with cane toads, because they are very common in the suburbs of many coastal cities and towns, are easy
to collect and keep, and there aren't the kind of ethical
objections to removing them from the wild, or killing them, as apply
to native frogs.
In its deliberations, the committee — which planned
to introduce the measure as early as this week — heard complaints from the education and
scientific community that its $ 300 - million package was insufficient
to solve schools» problems, as well as the
objection of Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell that the bill was too expensive.
The
objection, rather, is
to shoving subtle
scientific concepts into a forum that fits between commercial breaks.
At the same time, the Delaware River Basin Commission — of which Paterson is a member — also looks like it is moving forward on allowing fracking in the area, despite
objections from various sources (including Paterson) and a lack of adequate
scientific review of the potential consequences.The energy industry has welcomed the moratorium as a positive alternative
to what it called a «flawed» piece of legislation.
Your
objections to the
scientific case are based on your political ideology which means that you're unlikely
to ever change.
But a large part of the «
scientific» community is taking it seriously, so your
objections on the misuse of the term might better be directed
to them.
Since you take Climate Audit seriously enough
to occasionally participate in some of the discussions there, it does not appear that you would have any
scientific objections.
Your
objection to «denser» is even less appropriate here since there is no
scientific threshold of that kind between «dense» and «not - dense.»
But his
objection is not that society needs the best information available
to make difficult decisions about its future, or that scientists should not be confusing
scientific knowledge with science fiction, or that we need
to be able
to distinguish science from politics.
Your trolls attack you for not naming names — I'm far more interested in you naming evidentiary junctures in the trajectory of climate science at which, with hindsight, you believe
scientific objections ought
to have been voiced, whether by you or someone else, and what you now think of the conclusions that escaped such attention.
That any
objection to a political argument in favour of a course of action, founded on a
scientific case, will necessarily «doubt» that the
scientific evidence is sufficient
to warrant the political action
to which one objects.
Environmentalism is an ideological position, whereas scepticism encompasses a range of
objections to it, some of which are, in fact, perfectly valid on
scientific grounds.
RE: 4th Error -RCB- Poses an
objection to the non-
scientific term catastrophic [NOTE:
Scientific «consensus» is often being used & / or implied in standard climate - change discourse - Yet Consensus is a Political Term - NOT a
Scientific Term]- HOWEVER - When Jim Hansen, the IPCC & Al Gore, et - al - go from predicting 450 — 500 ppm CO2
to 800 — 1000ppm by the end of the 21st century -LCB- said
to the be highest atmospheric CO2 content in 20 — 30 Million YRS -RCB-; — & estimates for aver global temps by 21st century's end go from 2 * C
to 6 * C
to 10 * C; — & increased sea level estimates go from 10 - 20 cm
to 50 - 60 cm
to 1M — 2M -LCB- which would totally submerge the Maldives & partially so Bangladesh -RCB-; — predictions of the total melting of the Himalayan Ice caps by 2050, near total melting of Greenland's ice sheet & partial melting of Antarctica's ice sheet before the 21st century's end; — massive crop failures; — more intense & frequent hurricane -LCB- ala Katrina -RCB- for much longer seasonal durations, etc, etc, etc... — IMO That's Sounds pretty damned CATASTROPHIC
to ME!
What looks like an
objection to politically - motivated
scientific inaccuracy in a textbook brings into relief the fact that people's minds and the way they see the world are the source of the greatest uncertainty in the world.
One
objection to the selection of the cases here may be that they introduce an «asymmetry» through imperfect sampling; however, the purpose was not
to draw general conclusions about the entire body of
scientific literature but
to learn from mistakes.
The IPCC is a political process, not a
scientific one, so the principle that led one not
to be a expert reviewer might well be an
objection to the political process you were required
to participate in.
Steve, is Garth Paltridge going
to provide more material in order
to put the reviewer's quote in perspective with regards
to the
scientific objections that were raised?
However, some commenters seem
to have been taken in by
scientific - sounding
objections to the basic science behind the Atmospheric «Greenhouse Effect».
Bates»
objections to the paper were ignored by his superiors, who let scientists make «decisions and
scientific choices that maximised warming and minimised documentation» in advance of a major United Nations climate summit in Paris, France.
Dr. John Christy who is the most respected expert on global temperature was a lead author of the 2001 IPCC report who fought hard
to prevent the MBH 98 Hockey stick graph from being included in the 2001 TAR but his
scientific claims were overruled by political necessity and the defunct hockey stick was presented half a dozen times in the 2001 report in spite of his
objections on
scientific grounds.
In view of the desirability that the free flow of
scientific data be maintained, I feel sure this is a misunderstanding and I look forward
to you letting Prof Jones know that the WMO has no
objection to him quickly passing on
to me these global station by station temperature data updated as recent as possible.
You had
to know this was coming... A new piece in
Scientific American highlights the
objections of some scientists over claims that the world's largest geologic carbon sequestration project in Saskatchewan is leaking.
Every
objection to the hockey - stick graph, and there have been some plausible ones, has been unpicked, found
to have no
scientific basis, and explained.
If Chris Monckton, common bloke, reading the
scientific literature, finds fault with the methodologies of researchers, and has laid out his
objections in excruciating detail, could we give those
objections a look, and ascertain whether his arguments have any merit, without resort
to ad hominem diversions about his alleged delusions of grandeur?