Sentences with phrase «skeptics in questioning»

Mayor Bill de Blasio joined skeptics in questioning whether Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's AirTrain to LaGuardia will actually improve travel times to the airport.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio joined skeptics in questioning whether Cuomo's AirTrain to LaGuardia will actually improve travel times to the airport.

Not exact matches

Skeptics of the shape will question how it fits in a pocket, but it slips in about as easily as its namesake, the universally pocketable passport.

Skeptics have not only questioned Maduro's claim, but the very motivation behind issuing a cryptocurrency in the first place.

You could see from the footnotes and the questions I asked that I've read all the liberal literature, I've read the atheist literature — and I stood in the shoes of the skeptic as I asked the tough questions — I just didn't find them convincing.

Joseph Ratzinger had answered from the Christian perspective precisely the question that Pope Francis» homily raised (if less reverently) in some circles of skeptics yesterday: If non-believers can go to heaven, why bother with faith at all?

This comes from a former skeptic that tries to question everything, but found truth in the works, deeds and words of Christ.

Former skeptics had said as much, but the «I» in question had remained for them identified with the personal individual.

The title alludes to that book of the Bible so beloved by skeptics and pessimists, for the questions Jarman poses in poem after poem are challenges to the Preacher's resigned acceptance, and to his famous assertion that «all is vanity.»

Skeptics questioned his durability — «One guy called it the worst move in the history of the draft,» Lewis says — but the Ravens loved his size and his 4.37 speed in the 40.

Not only do Susan Pease Gadoua and I talk about the reality of assumed monogamy in The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels, but many others, like columnist and author Dan Savage, have questioned why sexual fidelity should trump stability.

Just as the Roebling family faced widespread doubt when they started building the longest suspension bridge in the world in 1870, skeptics now question whether the Obama Administration will be able to restore the economy, Biden said.

Trump offered an expanded economic blueprint and an overhaul of his tax plan, but skeptics in both parties questioned his promise to offset steep tax cuts with significantly stronger economic growth.

Skeptics questioned the impact a single convenience store would have in jumpstarting an ailing Adirondack Park economy.

Earlier studies had revealed that a mutation in roundworms extended their life span, but skeptics questioned the generalizability of those findings.

During college at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York, he started a club called RIT Skeptics, a discussion group centered around questions of science and pseudoscience.

(repeated incessantly in various forms) was pretty much the whole contribution from the «skeptic» in question.

Issa and other skeptics have questioned the methods used in this oft - cited study and doubt whether the differences detected in the older twins were all that large.

It's especially absurd in context, given that the person on the receiving end of that question is a man of science — an overt skeptic of all matters of faith.

On Monday night, Marvel Studios and theaters across the country hosted packed theaters of fans and skeptics to share 17 minutes of the film that is asking the biggest question of this summer, «Will people go see a Marvel movie without any of the Avengers in it?»

However, skeptics are given more opportunity to question The Water Diviner «s raison d'être as character development is sparser than water sources in the Outback.

The three strategies detailed in this post can help you in addressing those PBL skeptics who question the rigor in PBL and who think that simultaneously addressing rigor and authenticity is too grand of a challenge.

As the skeptics agree, the question is not really whether online instruction is a superior medium in and of itself.

The proposed expansion of school choice in Wisconsin comes at a time when President Barack Obama and Republicans are promoting charter schools and teacher accountability, while skeptics question whether choice programs have proven to be any more effective than traditional public schools.

A measure of student academic growth extracted from PARCC scores will be a 10 percent weight in the evaluation of some teachers, and skeptics have questioned whether the NJEA sees the PARCC resistance movement as a way to escape the use of student data in teacher performance reviews.

But skeptics question the sincerity of the movement's reflection, saying the accountability - focused rhetoric might be merely lip service paid to the promise of charter schools: independence in exchange for accountability.

Daniels remembers some skeptics questioning the validity of the jump in state test scores, noting the fact that Kansas City students» average ACT scores — which he remembers as being in the 15 - 17 range — had not improved as much as the state scores.

But the more crucial question for dyed - in - the - wool gearheads is whether the Chiron is alluring enough to win over the skeptics and convert the non-believers.

Almost since the death of Shakespeare in 1616, some skeptics and critics have continued to raise what has become known as «the authorship question,» a challenge to the notion that the lightly educated man from Stratford could actually have written...

«contributing factor» is far too vague to ask a question that can be answered and therefore should not be use in a skeptical argument, since a skeptic WANTS answers.

Therefore, IMHO, it would be closer to the truth to call WUWT a «skeptic» site that calls into question exactly how much the mean temperature has increased since the advent of the thermometer record in the late 1880's, how much of that is due to human activities and how much to natural cycles not under our control, what dangers rising temperatures may pose to human life and civilization, and what technologically and politically doable actions may be taken to reduce human - caused warming, and our dependence on foreign sources of fossil energy.

There is no question that there is a political noise machine in existence that feeds on research and statements from climate change skeptics.

A key site for addressing a wide range of questions raised by climate change «skeptics» is Skeptical Science (www.skepticalscience.com)-- in particular the questions discussed with references to the scientific literature at http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php.

IOW, the same questions, the same subjects, even the same idiocies, are repeated (in my case) EVERY YEAR — year in, year out, because every year brings a new crop of listeners, arguers, debaters, learners — and skeptics.

Skeptic, did not become aware of the poll until it was all over, but would not have participated in any case, as questions other than climate questions held no interest for me.

The question is why someone who is practiced in coherent analysis would do that — particularly someone who identifies as a «skeptic» who is particularly interested in discussing claims of trends for which there aren't sufficient validation?

His comparison of «skeptics» with Flat Earthers is ungentlemanly for somebody with his social standing and raises the question whether he and the IPCC are driven in a corner!

However much you may hate it as having no basis in reality, at least it's a model that (a) I offer an explanation, whether climate skeptics like it is a separate question, and (b) it fits the data moderately well.

All you skeptics and deniers should be able to answer this rather open ended exam question given your keen academic interest in the Earth Sciences.

If I understand that comment correctly, (in your view) it is not the nature of the questions that makes a skeptic, but your interpretation of their conclusions?

So now the question is no longer about what would have prompted questions about skeptic scientists» funding to come up at «an obscure utility hearing in Minnesota», it's about why an assistant A.G. would insert material into a public hearing against some of its expert science witnesses concerning an industry corruption insinuation based on a suggestion coming from a private citizen who had nothing to do with the topic at all just eight or so weeks earlier.

The answer is in the reaction the whitewash has triggered; an orchestrated attack on the skeptics, those who dare to perform science by proving the hypothesis wrong, to ask questions or demand debate.

Skeptics will tend to see the hiatus as evidence that, in general, that there is little or no AGW, while believers will tend to see it as being of little or no importance for the question; but this is because they (both of them) are using additional information.

I know I am seing a bit of a shift in the number of folks asking questions because they see what is going on with weather and the fact that there are so many global headlines may well be the straw that breaks the skeptic camels back.

So, if I were a skeptic I would just keep asking the best practices question, cause it's really funny that very few people who believe in AGW can bring themselves to admit that the team did anything substandard.

Litmus test questions with number scores for responses, or color shades on the Italian flag spectrum are all well and good (and definitely an improvement over the stale dichotomies) but do these have a shot of replacing terms like «skeptic» in popular discourse?

This is almost enough to make me turn in my Skeptic union card, but increased CO2 warming the earth makes some sense to me, the magnitude is in question.

I read all that time in these threads that «skeptics» don't doubt that ACO2 warms the climate, they only question how much.

The success in climate skepticism (in terms of climate skeptics» ability to take advantage of Climategate and to raise questions about climate science).

Paul MacRae, an ex-journalist, now an academic, answers this question in an excellent post, «The making of a climate skeptic».»