Sentences with phrase «skepticism about claims»

As far as I know, this experience left no ill effects, except a persistent skepticism about claims that exposure to this, that or the other chemical is inevitably a health disaster.

Skepticism about claims of success is always a good thing, as Liam suggested earlier, but Ravitch undermines her credibility by inventing these weak - kneed and flammable straw men to set fire to.

I share your skepticism about claims that serving kids junk food is a financial necessity for school systems — I can even rebut those claims better than you ever could.

When co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick said in October that the company currently has 30 % to 35 % of the ride - hailing market there, Chinese rival Didi Kuaidi and others quickly raised skepticism about the claim.

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The second is the president's habitual misstatements of facts and statistics that I really think have caused the court to look upon his claims about the national - security imperative for this order with great skepticism.»

There's also skepticism about North Korea's claims about its reentry technology, which is needed to return a warhead to the atmosphere from space so it can hit its intended target.

Though there has long been skepticism about whether Cambridge Analytica was as effective as it claimed, experts expect this technology to only improve, especially as artificial intelligence and virtual reality steadily grow more powerful.

The shift reflects a growing skepticism in the claims technology providers make about their products and services.

An epistemology oriented by the cross shares feminists» skepticism about traditional science «s claims about objectivity.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

As Hirsch rightly pointed out, skepticism about herme neutics undercuts the claim of any humanistic discipline to provide genuine knowledge, however provisional.

It also deals with the means of production of knowledge, as well as skepticism about different knowledge claims.

Dr Perlmutter IS right and years of science and research back up his claims along with true testimonials from real people - have you even read the book??? like I said before people like you who are not willing to give up gluten carbs and sugars are going to be the first ones to come on here with skepticism and claims that this is just another «fad diet - «newsflash Will this is a lifestyle and the followers are not in a cult they are real people who want to take charge of their health and live to see their great grandchildren and still be sound in their minds its fine to have questions but to come on here and insult this fine doctor who has helped so many people throughout his career and has written a New York times best seller to educate and help so many more people just makes you sound absurd and immature - he is speaking the truth everything we've been told about nutrition is a lie to profit the wheat industry, doctors and pharmaceutical companies because as long as people keep eating the wrong foods and getting sicker and fatter they will all profit.

Of course another interpretation would simply be to posit that those rejecting the alarming visions of a human - unraveled climate are illustrating another solid human trait — skepticism about overwrought claims in the absence of hard evidence (don't expect that any time soon) or direct experience (same deal, at least in prosperous places).

Sorry, my skepticism about DDT claims was set into high gear by repetition of flat out lies told about WHO and DDT bans, so you'll have to do better than a citation containing ``..

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Then there was widespread skepticism about the nearly 200,000 such jobs the administration claims to have created.

I urge everone to exercise the same cautious skepticism about automakers» claims you would about climate blog claims.

My questions about a) Christy and Spencer are relevant to the points raised on this thread by Craig Loehle abourt conflicts of interest; b) My points and questions about you failing applying skepticism and scrutiny equally is also relevant to the whole point of your blog and claims about caring about the science and building bridges.

What makes a scientist is one driven by curiosity to find out about things and who will follow the scientific method and not become confused over what they know and what they only think they know or know that they don't know and who do not accept theories, claims, or even experimental results without some level of skepticism.

I've analyzed some of the most alarmist claims, and my skepticism about them hasn't changed.

Nor is denial of any warming the same as skepticism about Gore's hysterical claims about hurricanes.

As we have documented in numerous articles on the disinformation campaign on this website, although responsible scientific skepticism is necessary for science to advance, the climate change disinformation campaign has been involved not in the pursuit of responsible scientific skepticism but in tactics that are morally reprehensible including: (a) telling lies about mainstream climate scientific evidence or engaging in reckless disregard for the truth, (b) focusing on unknowns about climate science while ignoring settled climate change science, that is cherry - picking the evidence, (c) creating front groups and Astroturf groups that hide the real parties in interest behind claims, (d) making specious claims about «good science», (e) manufacturing science sounding claims about climate change by holding conferences in which claims are made and documents are released that have not been subjected to scientific peer - review, and (d) cyber bullying journalists and scientists.

I haven't seen any of the discussion about him claim any recent conversion to skepticism.

During the segment, Stossel portrayed skepticism about global warming as just as scientifically valid as respectable scientific research and opinion showing that the climate is changing; misleadingly suggested that projections of the future global climate are comparable to a local news channel's «weather forecast»; and highlighted Crichton's claim that climate scientists have an incentive to exaggerate global warming in order to win grants.

Much of the credit for the rising tide of public skepticism toward the outlandish claims of the global warming Jeremiahs goes to the Heartland Institute, which The Economist has called «the world's most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man - made climate change.»

Maybe you need another subset classification for group 4 — those that don't actually reject any of the science specifically and occasionally claim to accept it, but still drop in the occasional vague sentiment about skepticism being healthy etc or more research needs to be done as a reason for not supporting any attempt to tackle the issue.

Michael: Maybe you need another subset classification for group 4 — those that don't actually reject any of the science specifically and occasionally claim to accept it, but still drop in the occasional vague sentiment about skepticism being healthy etc or more research needs to be done as a reason for not supporting any attempt to tackle the issue.

I expressed skepticism about the likelihood of success of a legal - vertical professional network and I called out the site's founders for claiming to be the «first online professional network for the legal community,» which was not so — although Matthew Tollin, wireLawyer's cofounder and CEO, disagreed with me.

I have written previous posts about my skepticism regarding this program, particularly with respect to the unsupported claims by its proponents that the program will lower legal costs and increase access to justice.

And our skepticism about insurance is understandable — health insurance especially is a notorious mess and most of us have had infuriating experiences with denied claims, overcharges, and incomprehensible bills.

Developers, meanwhile, have conveyed a great deal of skepticism about Telegram's ability to achieve the goals it has laid out for the Telegram Open Network (TON), including its claim that the network will process 1 million transactions per second.