Sentences with phrase «scientific principles which»

Your patronizing reply misses my underlying point, namely that wherever there is serious minority hypothesis with evidence, it needs to be made visible in its best form, alongside the «consensus» hypothesis — and that this is a very important example of a general scientific principle which the pursuit of single «consensus» statements has undermined.

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A metaphysical principle that would explain the existence of scientific law throughout the universe is a MIND which controls and directs matter; matter can not control and direct itself «upward».

Their first concern is to find gaps in the explanatory competence of the sciences, inadequacies of theory that can not, in principle, be bridged without invoking God's «special» action to supplement the natural causes to which scientific inquiry is necessarily limited.

According to Whitehead, scientific laws state principles which are immanent in nature but which evolve concurrently with novel changes in the entities actually constituting the universe.1...

The present Humanism, whether we call it scientific or existentialist, is only the natural and nal culmination of those principles of autonomy and nominalism in philosophy, which oversowed the New Learning.

God's Revelation can in fact and in principle concern realities which themselves are accessible to secular experience of a scientific or historical kind, so that on the one hand what Revelation states about them is open to possible threat of an eventual at least apparently opposed discovery of secular science and on the other hand natural science must in principle always reckon on a possible veto on the part of theology (Cf. Denzinger 1947 ff., 2187).

Atheism is conforming to logic and scientific principles and believing only in that which has evidence to support its existence.

Such evidence is admissible only under the presupposition that the principle of scientific method, namely that every effect which occurs can be explained in terms of purely immanent relationships within the operation itself, is not only valid methodologically but is true in and of itself.

The principle would have excluded scientific theories which can never be conclusively verified or proved to be immune to modification.

Please point to the section of the bible that explains the * MECHANISM * by which the universe was created, such that we can build a computer model based on scientific principles derived from the bible that will model the creation of the universe.

According the author, there is a lack of discussion about Whitehead's view that scientific laws state principles which are immanent in nature but which evolve concurrently with novel changes in the entities actually constituting the universe.

Nevertheless there is a great deal which can be done in the home to teach scientific principles to older children and teenagers.

This is a perfectly legitimate health concern translated into a regulatory action at the border, which, if applied in a non-discriminatory way, and based on scientific principles, is a justifiable trade barrier under WTO rules.

In the scientific workplace, gossip may be especially risky, because gossip is almost always based on unverified information, which goes against the grain of basic scientific principles if not necessarily the science - workplace culture.

And the real paradox which — I am going to give away the end of the book — the very last lines of the book are about how, here's this man who is virtually incapable of emotion but one has to categorize his scientific philosophy as being one in which emotion, your aesthetic appreciation, is your principle guiding factor.

West co-founded the Eigenfactor Project, which aims to rank and map scientific knowledge on the principle that scholarly literature forms a vast network, where the nodes are papers and citations are the links.

The discovery involved ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, which provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development, and ORNL's Titan supercomputer, the nation's most powerful for open science — a one - two punch for illuminating the physical properties of potential drugs that inform new design principles for safer, improved delivery platforms.

Since then, new education opportunities have ranged from internship programs, to community college instructors working with industry to update their curriculums, to a new Master's degree in professional science, which encompasses both scientific principles and management techniques, offered at UMass - Lowell and Northeastern University.

In a series of famous experiments, Boyle used the air pump, which has been called «the cyclotron of its age,» to test basic scientific principles such as the relationship between a gas's pressure and its volume.

In a joint statement to the OSTP, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Washington D.C. Principles Coalition for Free Access to Science — which represents society publishers — slammed NIH - style mandates as «a means for facilitating international piracy,» saying that they would «damage the very institutions that researchers, the public and government itself rely on to peer review, publish, disseminate and preserve scientific information.»

Will nonscientific beliefs gradually fade, leading to a brave new world in which all affairs are conducted according to cold scientific principles?

By combining improved scientific understanding of ES functioning with the precautionary principle, the PB framework identifies levels of anthropogenic perturbations below which the risk of destabilization of the ES is likely to remain low — a «safe operating space» for global societal development.

They have drawn up three agreements which set out principles for joint use of scientific and technical facilities, training, transfer of know - how, and mutual recognition of scientific qualifications, standards and patent rights.

Today's release is the latest in a series of papers in which Dr. Trasande and his colleagues demonstrate a casual indifference toward scientific principles, yet a dogged pursuit of headlines.

The newly discovered MHT principle has proved to be a scientific milestone and has evolved to be a «core - concept landmark» in applied sciences, on which the forthcoming centuries would lay the very foundations of new scientific disciplines.

Like the Helsinki Declaration, which forever altered the ethical landscape of human clinical research, the aim of the Basel Declaration is to bring the scientific community together to further advance the implementation of ethical principles such as the 3Rs whenever animals are being used and to call for more trust, transparency and communication on the sensitive topic of animals in research.

«Until recently the European Space Agency had plans for a lunar lander (which has since been scrapped) and the science case for Lunar Mission One is quite similar,» Ian Crawford, one of Lunar Mission One's principle scientific advisers, told BBC News.

This overview of the scientific literature has reinterpreted results, according to fundamental principles of exercise physiology and immunology, to shed some light on misconceptions and misinterpretations which have been previously established.

Homogenizing variety, assigning labels and confusing the inherent polarity principles as divisions and exploit this whole disorderly mixture to unleash to hegemonize has been to some extent the socio - psychological perspective of some, predominantly in the Western world which otherwise could have prospered much earlier, much better and helped the whole world to balance with its economic and commercial power and scientific inventions along with the philosophical wisdom of th ewhoel world.

The United States has many examples in which students learn scientific concepts through activities and experiments designed to demonstrate those principles, Singapore's top school official said last week.

A calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive preparation including instruction in skills and methods as well as in the scientific, historical, or scholarly principles underlying such skills and methods, maintaining by force of organization or concerted opinion high standards of achievement and conduct, and committing its members to continued study and to a kind of work which has for its prime purpose the rendering of a public service.

Advocacy for Prevention Science describes scientific advances and principles which form a foundation for advocacy for prevention science.

The cognitive principles of learning are based on reports from (a) the National Academy of Sciences, 1 (b) a practice guide for teachers by the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education on Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, 2 (c) and a joint initiative between the Association of Psychological Sciences and the American Psychological Association on Lifelong Learning at Work and at Home.3 The recommendations here reflect the wisdom of these reports, which are based on scientific evidence, rather than being consensus opinions of experts.

I believe inefficiency also emerges due to the conventionally prevailing valuation techniques & the generally accepted economics and finance principles which rely too much on mathematics and using what essentially is gut feeling in substitute for a «scientific model» is not an acceptable practice in investment management.

She had keen insight into bird behavior, backed by scientific behavior principles, which made her uniquely qualified, and was recognized as a national expert.

A term coined by Dutch artist and architect Theo van Doesburg in 1930 to describe abstract art based on mathematic or scientific principles, the visual expression of which was an emphasis on planes and color.

Surrealism, magic realism, the scientific principles of light and an inchoate sense of longing informed the dreamlike photographs, especially the large - scale camera obscura works, which invited the rational and the irrational to exist in the same room — juxtaposed images that felt like artifacts from the land of dreams and memory.

In the 1940s, she served as photo editor for Science Illustrated, and went on to photograph scientific principles and processes for the Physical Sciences Study Committee at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology in 1958, developing innovative techniques and mechanisms which enabled her to capture scientific phenomena.

So, just as in the law we have two criminal procedures: criminal law where the requirement is «proof beyond reasonable doubt» and civil law «on the balance of probabilities», I personally think it is time we had Science (proof by experiment, the null hypothesis — proof beyond all reasonable doubt) and «science» (soft science)... where assertions are made using rigorous assessment of the data and the application of known scientific principles, but assertions have to be made which can not be subject to the full rigours of the scientific methodology.

The reactions that you speak of, and which have forced you to reconsider the decision to join us, reveal a degree of intolerance, and a rejection of the principle of open scientific inquiry, which are truly shocking.

For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.

Rather than imposing scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle of a mission to support an established view (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle of consensus (§ 10)-- an approval process and organization principle which must, by it's nature, diminish dissenting views.

Concerning the uncertainty of assessments made by IPCC, already in The Environment Conference Rio de Janeiro 1992 there was agreed a principle according to which» lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation».

These include the distortion of scientific facts, the breach of principles of fair representation and false claims about the green credentials of consumer products — evidence of which is documented in this report.

No nation should be allowed to trade off scientific whaling in exchange for coastal whaling, which is equally objectionable, ignores the international will on these issues, and defies the conservation principles of the IWC itself.

I also think that most of the established science is what Feynman called Cargo Cult Science, which refers to practices that have the semblance of being scientific, but are missing «a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty».

By combining improved scientific understanding of ES functioning with the precautionary principle, the PB framework identifies levels of anthropogenic perturbations below which the risk of destabilization of the ES is likely to remain low — a «safe operating space» for global societal development.

There's a sociologist called Reiner Grundmann at Aston University who had a paper on climategate discussed at Klimazwiebel, in which he made the key point that scientific method demands that both sides of a socially contentious subject need to be discussed impartially — a basic principle of scientific method which has escaped the Nuticcellis and Lewandowskys.

The attacks on scientists who have said that climate change is with a high probability happening, and anthropogenic have come from many long discredited sources, and the sources which are less easily identifiable as being based on unsound scientific principles have a great deal of cross-over with those which are.

In light of the latest revelations, it now seems even more evident that these men have been failing to uphold those principles which lie at the heart of genuine scientific enquiry and debate.