Sentences with phrase «than a rational assessment»

Yes, it is bewildering that there will be no «next shuttle launch date» as there has been for most of the past 30 years, but let's admit it, the loss now felt is more a visceral reaction than a rational assessment of where the space programme of the US and the rest of the world actually stands — and where it's headed.

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Bobinator, if you think it's «silly» to be rational about true historic risk assessment and okay to escalate hatreds over some claimed «siege» that simply doesn't exist, you are considerably worse than just silly.

A value above 1.0 for risk Y means people are reacting more strongly to the risk Y relative to risk X than «rational» risk assessment would predict.

Yet rather than recognise this frequently hidden divide between the green elite and the «baying crowd» as one built on differences of opinion, on clashing aspirations, even on rational assessments by sections of the public that recycling is a waste of time, increasingly environmentalists pathologise it, turning it into evidence of their wisdom in contrast to the public's mental instability.

There is no rational basis for EPA to promulgate mobile source rules that do nothing more than reiterate other, independently effective legal requirements, and that offer no added environmental benefit but impose far - reaching and unintended costs on a source population (stationary sources) not even considered in the Endangerment Finding assessment.