Sentences with phrase «uncontrolled experiment with»

Author Nina Teicholz reveals how the past sixty years of low - fat nutrition advice has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment with disastrous consequences for human health.

We were running a giant nationwide uncontrolled experiment with people and their houses as the guinea pigs.

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This remains a giant, uncontrolled science experiment, with birds and all the communities that depend on the Gulf as the unwitting subjects,» stated Thomas Bancroft, chief scientist for the National Audubon Society.

However, if we're going to take a scientific approach to instructional evaluation, how can we tolerate definitive conclusions based on the results of an experiment with dozens of unknown, uncontrolled, significant variables?

Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end - of - the world predictions — from global warming and waste to post-peak oil energy crises and uncontrolled world urbanization — architects and urbanists find themselves once more at a crossroad, fertile for visionary thinking.

Seeing what would happen if we start dicking about with one of its important components amounts to a massive uncontrolled experiment in which there is no clear upside and a downside that though imprecisely specified, could be disastrous oir even worse.

As I have noted before, no - one in their right mind is going to reduce the use of fossil fuels, so we will proceed with the uncontrolled experiment of adding more and more CO2 to the atmosphere.

To illustrate, a mother who is preoccupied by her own eating disorder or her own obsessive — compulsive focus on neatness may, while observing her child eating a first spoon of food, be preoccupied by the child spilling the food or eating in an uncontrolled way rather than noticing the child's experimenting with all the aspects of eating (e.g., motor, smell, taste, texture and digestive).