Sentences with phrase «skeptical position»

A "skeptical position" refers to having doubt or questioning something. It means that someone is hesitant to believe or accept an idea without evidence or convincing reasons. They approach the topic with caution and may require more proof before forming a strong opinion. Full definition
One of the original study's researchers just published a strong, skeptical position on power poses.
«What they (the Democrats & warmists) are so afraid of is this: Trump is the first Republican Presidential nominee that has ever staked out a strongly science supported skeptical position not only on climate science claims, but also on the so - called «solutions».
My understanding of most of the (lets call it) skeptical positions from people like Roy Spencer is that they essentially claim exactly that: the absence of a large signal compared to noise (or natural variability) and the entire debate is essentially about the question, whether noise is a measurement / statistical problem or the very nature of climate itself?
While we do not agree with Blanchard's skeptical position as to the benefits that a ban on fully autonomous weapons could provide, we welcome his acknowledgement of the counter-argument that letting a machine decide whom to kill would violate notions of human dignity.
In 2012 The Geological Society of Australia (GSA) was one of the few associations to make a slightly skeptical position on climate.
It is hard to dispute this except to note that Krauthammer here has taken a radically skeptical position not merely on climate science, but on all science.
It should be fun because when it is done, the Red team will have created the definitive skeptical position.
To call «dead wrong on all counts» a reasonably held, scientifically based albeit skeptical position (as I hope to demonstrate below) betrays a black and white mentality that is not conducive to good science and implies a certainty that most scientific disciplines avoid.
If you want to fault me for making the skeptical position into a claim that can't be justified because you can't first justify your claim that god exist, then have fun chasing those «turtles all the way down.»
Atheism can't be proven, but it is the more logical position since it is a skeptical position in response to a positive position that lacks verifiable evidence.
The theist position is the POSITIVE position: X exists, where X = God The atheist position is the negative or SKEPTICAL position: X does not exist, because X has not been proved to exist.
DOE kept seeking a solution in the Constellation case, sources close to the negotiations said, but a skeptical position from the Office of Management and Budget prevailed.
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The strength of the skeptical position comes out once more in Zadig, an Oriental tale tossed off in a few days in 1746.
We are not alone in taking a skeptical position.
It is nonetheless the case that once freed of the burden of having to earn a living or retain their tenure in an academe in thrall to the man - made global warming narrative, scientists do seem much more ready to take a skeptical position:
So when those arrayed against the skeptical position employ gross logical fallacies and misstatements of fact, it's a sort of vindication.
Sometimes individuals argue either the warmist or AGW - skeptical positions for a reason that's just plain bad on almost anyone's view, because it contravenes very basic and uncontroversial scientific or logical principles.
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