Sentences with phrase «shaky science of»

His absorbing account details both the big business and the sometimes shaky science of sequencing: He follows fledgling biotech start - ups and the big fish gobbling them up, and he faults personal genomics companies for not considering environment and lifestyle in their clients» genetic assessments.

Not exact matches

With science showing sleep deprivation creates a host of negative effects, from decreased creativity to radically compromised mental performance (and that's not even getting into the physical problems it causes), attending to your body's need for sleep is always a good idea, but failing to get enough rest also exacerbates our tendency to get stressed out, so it's even more important to pay attention to if you feel your mental health is getting a little shaky.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes The spookily believable CGI apes made this a compelling watch — even if the brain science bits were beyond shaky.

Nonsense on Stilts by Massimo Pigliucci (University of Chicago Press) A tour of solid science, shaky science, and pseudoscience, this crash course in critical thinking by biologist and philosopher Pigliucci includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on climate change, evolution, and even UFOs.

A survey published in June 2016 in the journal Forensic Science International by INTERPOL, the international organization that represents the police forces of 190 countries, showed that half of the respondents (21 out of 44)-- belonging to police forces from all over the world — employ techniques that have long been known to have shaky scientific grounds.

Climate Denialdom went ballistic over my recent video on the satellite temperature record, including John Christy, the Ned Flanders of climate denial — who spent half his recent congressional testimony sputtering about «well funded» video attacks on his shaky science record.

The science behind pine pollen is still shaky at best but apparently the story goes that it is a natural phyto - androgen (which is a fancy way of saying tree sperm).

Deja Vu is the latest film to employ tampering with the past in order to secure a different outcome in the present, but by the time you realize that it is highly illogical as a film, you've already gained enough enjoyment out of the film from a thriller standpoint to forgive the shaky foundations in science fiction.

Educators called on their members of Congress to implement research - based reforms and to avoid fad reforms that are backed by shaky science — or, in some cases, no science at all.

When schools try to do experiential learning and active learning with students whose command of reading, writing, mathematics, science and technology is very shaky, the outcomes may be worse than if these pedagogical approaches were not tried at all, because, all too often, the result is shallow learning.

The winner of the Andre Norton Award for young adult science fiction and fantasy went to Ysabeau S. Wilce for Flora's Dare, a wild romp of a book, which has one of the longest subtitles we've seen lately: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room).

There is no justification for a war on outdoor cats — feral or otherwise — based on shaky science and an absence of ethical reasoning.

We would never want to be in the boat of Carl Sagan who advocated nuclear winter scenarios despite knowing how shaky the foundations for the science were, because that is how his politics went.»

We have some questionable «post modern» science built on shaky foundations that assumes we have a much greater knowledge of the historic record than we do, or assumes that the historic record - such as sea surface temperatures to 1850 - are a rock solid piece of science from which an edifice can be constructed.

The Swedish professor tells the BAZ that he became a skeptic of alarmist climate science early on because «the [UN] IPCC always depicted the facts on the subject falsely» and «grossly exaggerated the risks of sea level rise» and that the IPCC «excessively relied on shaky computer models instead of field research.»

In response, the American Petroleum Institute (API) coordinated a plan to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the climate accord was based on shaky science.

Unfortunately, the tree - ring problems throw the rest of the already shaky science onto even worse ground.

That the researcher responsible for the study is clearly not a «climate change denier» makes the IPCC's credibility gap all the more significant, and it raises new questions regarding the fundamental credibility of any claim coming from an organization which has relied on shaky science to back its demand for the power to take $ 76 trillion from the economies of the industrialized world and «redistribute» those funds for «green technologies» in the third world.

Worth comparing how so much important medical research could (perhaps) suffer from confirmation biases and expectations of the «community» of reviewers with a lot that has happened to date in climate science with shaky data and methods.

The loquacious «Lord of the Lies» has a shaky grasp on climate science, as has been well documented in a thorough debunking by RealClimate.org of Monckton's fanciful and deceptive interpretations of IPCC global temperature projections.

«A shaky understanding of climate science?»

The word «uncontentious» in Revkin's article is a hyperlink to a 1998 NY Times article, alleging «Industry opponents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science».