Sentences with phrase «strong scientific evidence for»

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He called the arguments for a «strong natural disposition to believe in gods...» a «mounting body of scientific evidence.»

But at the current time, the scientific evidence is not strong enough for the AAP to recommend routine circumcision of all newborn boys.

Yet, too often, parents ignore their instincts and better sense to follow their doctor's advice, such as overtreating vulnerable children, letting babies cry themselves to sleep and giving their children cow's milk for strong bones, even though scientific evidence shows none of these practices is the best route.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Recent scandals have undermined the credibility of the international scientific body, yet the scientific evidence for climate change remains as strong as ever

At the meeting, Patel, Prince and Saxena made a strong case that there was enough scientific evidence and enough need for discussion that a special issue on mental illnesses was warranted.

According to a report from an expert panel convened at the request of the board of the University of Amsterdam, for both of these papers, «the evidence for low scientific veracity of this publication is considered strong.»

Well, if you're looking for scientific evidence before giving this visualization stuff a try, research shows that adding a visual element to our written goals may bring even stronger results.

In fact, the bulk of the scientific evidence suggests that taking calcium supplements in the hope of getting strong bones and teeth, for instance, might well increase free radicals and oxidative stress levels.

I have adapted one of their figures into two new ones, showing the state of scientific evidence (strong and emerging separately) for «therapeutic uses of the ketogenic diet».

I also recommend routine neutering for both male and female cats, though I admit to clients that there is a dearth of strong scientific evidence elucidating the relative risks and benefits of neutering and the advantages and disadvantages of specific techniques in this species.

«The approval of a second BRAVECTO product builds on the strong foundation and body of scientific evidence that we have established with our chewable tablet for dogs, our oral flea and tick product,» said KJ Varma, senior vice president, research and development, Merck Animal Health.

In fact, as with climate, there are real issues related to spin and the realities of the scientific and economic research, but there is also strong evidence for a real problem deserving a response.

The scientific evidence is so strong for the intellectual and emotional sophistication of dolphins that there simply is no question that they are «nonhuman persons» who deserve respect as individuals.

For climate change, the researchers conducted an experiment to examine why more Republicans than Democrats seem to deny its existence, despite strong scientific evidence that supports it.

In the November 21st Op - Ed, «The Truth on Tornadoes,» Professor Richard Muller writes «the scientific evidence shows that strong to violent tornadoes have actually been decreasing for the past 58 years, and it is possible that the explanation lies with global warming.»

«The scientific evidence of the severe environmental and human impacts from mountaintop mining is strong and irrefutable,» lead author Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science says in a press release.

Controversy arose after various allegations were made including that climate scientists colluded to withhold scientific evidence and manipulated data to make the case for global warming appear stronger than it is.

The problems any of these individual surveys can and do present are minuscule compared to the laughable counterpoints Bast and Spencer throw at them: a 2012 survey, for example, which found a strong showing of climate denial among members of the American Meteorological Society, and a petition, signed by 31,000 scientists asserting that «there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of... carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.»

Stern blames the «deniers / delayers» for society's climate inaction, writing that «climate deniers, vested interests, and ideologues have attacked both the scientific evidence on climate change and politicians» attempts to regulate emissions and build strong carbon prices.»

He was definitely a strong proponent of the scientific method, falsification and the need for solid evidence.

This question is designed to expose that those who seek to rely on scientific uncertainty as justification for non-action on climate change have a strong ethical duty to produce very credible scientific evidence that supports the conclusion that human activities releasing ghgs are not causing climate change and its impacts.

It is always possible to find specific issues in science where the majority of scientists have got it wrong, or had strong opinions, e.g. plate tectonics, continental drift, N - rays, the aether, phlogiston; that is no excuse for automatically elevating dissenting opinion to the level of well examined scientific evidence.

But there is one issue on which the president can, and should, say much more: the strong scientific evidence on human - induced climate change and its impacts on the United States, and the rapidly closing window for action.

«The president can, and should, say much more [about] the strong scientific evidence on human - induced climate change and its impacts on the United States, and the rapidly closing window for action,» say Harvard Prof. Jim McCarthy and UN Foundation President Tim Wirth, giving voice to what Climate Science Watch has argued repeatedly since before President Obama's inauguration.

And as the scientific evidence for climate change has gotten stronger, the attacks have only gotten more aggressive.

For instance, University of California, Berkeley, professor Richard Muller argued in a recent New York Times opinion piece that «the scientific evidence shows that strong to violent tornadoes have actually been decreasing for the past 58 years, and it is possible that the explanation lies with global warming.&raqFor instance, University of California, Berkeley, professor Richard Muller argued in a recent New York Times opinion piece that «the scientific evidence shows that strong to violent tornadoes have actually been decreasing for the past 58 years, and it is possible that the explanation lies with global warming.&raqfor the past 58 years, and it is possible that the explanation lies with global warming.»

It is these multiple lines of evidence that give the scientific community such strong confidence that humans are responsible for the recent unprecedented warming of the surface of the Earth.

Significant, scientific research provides strong validation for the lasting impact of several evidence - based marriage and relationship education programs, yet many are left wondering how such significant change is possible from lessons learned over a fraction of a single day — most often in just nine hours of training.

Dissemination of parenting interventions can be strengthened by attending to several key factors and principles: (i) ensuring interventions are used that match families» needs and preferences, (ii) strong scientific evidence is available to support intervention components used in a population based approach, (iii) multiple destigmatized access points are provided for families and (iv) cost - effective strategies are used.47 Poor participation and engagement by parents in parenting programmes stands as one of the most difficult barriers to widespread effective implementation of parenting programmes.48, 49 Parental willingness to participate in a parenting programme depends on several interacting variables.

For example, there is an absence of strong scientific evidence regarding precise parenting characteristics that guarantee «good parenting.»