Sentences with phrase «scientific position on»

There will never be a unanimous scientific position on climate change, simply because there will never be a unanimous scientific position on anything.

In the last two entries we examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (1) the strong scientific position on climate change, and (2) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reduction necessary to avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

McKitrick: «No, to the extent my scientific position on climate change has developed and changed over the years it has been due to the research I have seen and done, and the data that has been published.

I'm confident that securing a scientific position on the Continent despite these hurdles will prove to be a springboard to long - term success.

Not exact matches

As Pfizer recently announced, the company has increased investment in areas that will position us to deliver on some of the most promising scientific advances.

In taking this position, Spitzer has agreed purely scientific approach to the limitations of Spitzer's study and would be to conduct more rigorous outcome findings, something that he along with others have been calling for all along Even the APA Report on correct Responses to Orient.

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

Andrew M. Greeley, «Comment on Hunt's» Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales,»» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 287 - 92, proposes a fourth nonliteral but transcendent category for the scales but argues only for its legitimacy as an autonomous position, not, as I do, for its role in completing a quadripolar approach to world view.

Disorder & Diseased As Stanton Jones shows («Same - Sex Science,» February), the position that «gay is good» is a philosophical, not scientific, conclusion, and so must be argued on philosophical grounds.

On evolution, I'll clarify my position, it is a scientific fact.

Several church statements which argue for an open position on abortion sketch a view of humanity that may validly continue to authorize these churches» position even in face of the new scientific hypotheses.

Despite the evident difficulties in securing agreement on such values, one can take the position that the moral enterprise requires loyalty to values that in their own realms have an authority comparable to the value of truth in scientific inquiry.

Proponents of the anything - goes position assert that the potential scientific and medical benefits of embryonic stem - cell research override all other considerations» and therefore restrictions on the funding and scope of this research are unwarranted.

On page 151 McGrath captures this key contrast, «As I have made clear throughout this work I have found that the Christian faith offers a persuasive and deeply satisfying enrichment of a scientific engagement with reality... [but] my position can be criticised on perfectly reasonable grounds.&raquOn page 151 McGrath captures this key contrast, «As I have made clear throughout this work I have found that the Christian faith offers a persuasive and deeply satisfying enrichment of a scientific engagement with reality... [but] my position can be criticised on perfectly reasonable grounds.&raquon perfectly reasonable grounds.»

You adamantly refuse to recognise the historical fact that «scientific atheism» was both a foundational philosophical position and an actual policy of the Soviet Union and other atheist states from the time of Lenin on, and responsible for massive persecution, torture, suffering, humiliation and death far in excess of the numbers of the «victims» of Christianity - So now the history that isn't in your book is factual?

Yes, science adjusts its position as more knowledge is obtained; this is in stark contrast to religion which relies on ancient texts to explain the world even though those texts were written in ignorance and scientific knowledge shows them to be false.

Odder still, after saying he had to support the position of the U.S. government, he went on to deplore that position, observing that Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, shared his embarrassment over official queasiness about the scientific uses of the unborn dead.

From a scientific standpoint, I know that, with our current level of technology and with our rather stable position on Earth, it will be a long time coming before God can be proven or disproven.

Whitehead's attack on «scientific materialism» in SMW and his eventual adoption of a position which is interpreted by many, to teach that there are two sorts of actualities, microscopic physical entities and human persons (e.g., Wallack, ENPWM 6), calls to mind Pope's lines (An Essay on Man, IV):

Still ID stands in good position despite the scientific method argument; when all the evidence is on the table and all the excuses put aside ID is very possible.

If your position is that scientific evidence can not prove god, then you agree with me on that, and I don't even see the point of this.

I suggest that the note regarding physical and scientific objects in the second edition of the Enquiry be taken as a break on Whitehead's part with the position spelled out in the body of the book insofar as that position, because of its phenomenalistic orientation, rules out the possibility of the above - mentioned type of explanation.

And anybody who relies on the words of a man who died 1,000 years ago and a bronze - age book of fairy tales filled with more scientific and historical inaccuracies than you can shake a stick at to back up their positions, should not be commenting on this issue.

By the sixteenth century there was already plenty for a scientific critique of received ecclesiastical positions on the matter of authority to go to work on.

Grant, however, is uniquely positioned to enter the market given its six - decade history of creating scientific equipment focused on precision temperature control.

In short, the concept of «clean» is not based on scientific evidence, but on consumer perceptions and retailer positioning.

I hope I made clear in the post that I'm not taking a position either way on PCRM's petition — I lack the scientific chops to evaluate the studies they submit in support of it.

12 Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, United Kingdom, Infant Feeding Survey 2005: A commentary on infant feeding practices in the UK, position statement by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2008.

This breastfeeding position involves your baby lying on his back, while you crouch over him on all fours and dangle your nipple in his mouth.4 Some mums say doing this for short periods helps if they have conditions like mastitis and don't want their breasts to be squashed or touched; others claim that gravity helps unplug blocked milk ducts, although there's no scientific evidence to support this yet.

Whatever you may think of the scientific validity of their positions, or the degree to which they have, or have not, been influenced by the nefarious dairy lobby (and I offer no opinion on either point), here are some leading organizations that currently support flavored milk in schools: the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, the National Medical Association, the National Hispanic Medical Association and the School Nutrition Association.

Webb's conservative position on gun laws is well - known, but here he is on evolution: «This confrontation between religious and scientific theories is still unsettled even today, as creationists rationally argue that the living world could not have been fashioned without an «intelligent designer,» and that the theory of evolution as presented by the Darwinists still rests on scientific speculation that has yet to be proven.»

And it may assign developing countries a junior position within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change body responsible for advising on implementation and technological and scientific questions, giving researchers from wealthier countries a disproportionate say in that body's conclusions.

The aim is to help grow international scientific partnerships, enhance communications about scientific endeavors and provide guidance on how to build programs to place scientists in positions that deepen the role of scientific knowledge in policymaking.

All the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge he had gathered during his scientific training — which had covered biochemistry, biotechnology, biomaterials, and stem cell biology — put him «in a very advantageous position to address this question» of how to develop nanoparticles that could modulate stem cell differentiation on demand, he says.

In a December letter, Holt urged Perry to appoint leading scientists and engineers to top DOE positions in order to provide timely scientific and technical input on policy decisions.

In time, he served on the scientific advisory board of another company, and then, finally, he decided to leave his academic position in 2001 to take the reigns of Renovis, a company he co-founded.

Kerry pointed out that Bush's position conflicted with the findings of distinguished scientific bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «a scientific panel founded at the behest of his own father.»

Scientists at research institutes and universities in Singapore are carrying out valuable and world - class research, but they might not be in a position to convey the potential of their discovery to a venture capitalist, unless the venture capitalist has a scientific background or at least access to someone on the team who does.

COPENHAGEN — Surely, one reason women scientists are relatively rare on university faculties — in academic leadership posts such as department chairs and deans, on the programs of scientific meetings, as experts interviewed by the media, on boards, and in other prominent positions — is that women are less visible than men.

According to a 2014 analysis by the National Committee of Scientific Research (CoNRS), which advises the CNRS on science policy issues and participates in the recruitment of young researchers, the CNRS alone has lost more than 800 permanent positions between 2002 and 2012.

Contributions are generally inferred from the order of authors, and implications of position on the authorship list vary between different investigators and scientific fields.

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

That can be a source of some frustration at times, but being in a position to impact positively on Ireland's scientific development is an attraction to many people.

It was a sentiment sounded by the AAAS Board of Directors when it adopted on April 16, 2010 its position that «Recognizing that this right lies at the heart of the AAAS mission and the social responsibilities of scientists, AAAS will pursue opportunities to collaborate with the global scientific community so that the voice, interests and concerns of scientists can be brought to this process.»

We realize that the positions reflected in this statement raise critical challenges for our health care system and insurance providers, such as that of adverse selection, but we call upon the scientific and religious communities — indeed, on all people of good will — to bring an informed understanding and a generous heart to this debate.

I decided to organize a series of seminars focusing on specific careers and career issues, including scientific writing / editing, dressing for interviews, teaching careers, patent and intellectual property careers, and getting a postdoc position.

The position of principal scientific adviser (PSA) has taken on greater prominence under Modi, who has disbanded other science advisory bodies and has tended to rely on the science adviser and science and environment minister for technical advice.

The responsibilities of scientific diplomats vary widely, depending in large part on the relative positions of the two nations and their level of scientific interchange.

Blom believes this is a confusing position that does little justice to the subtle scientific discussion on which it is based; it can put not only patients and their family members on the wrong track, but also clinicians and researchers.

After he obtained his B.A. degree, Bromley was offered an assistant position at AAAS to help compile scientific facts on climate change and other global environmental issues for the public, analyzing large numerical data sets and making maps using computational tools.