Sentences with phrase «validity of science»

The saddest thing about this — besides the political ramifications concerning delayed action — is the way in which other vested interests are exploiting this as a great way of destroying the public's opinion as to the value and the validity of science as a means to discovery of how nature ticks.

Floods, bushfires and this year's scorching summer heatwave have raised awareness of the dangers of climate change, but an «infantile» debate over the validity of the science has cost Australia precious time, according to a key Climate Commission expert.

This motive - based style of reasoning is an appalling way to assess the validity of science.

Not arguing the validity of the science looks like a deliberate tactic for making it easier to push through an agenda based on the science being wrong.

One goal of this educational reader seems to be establishing the concept and validity of science in general, a particular stumbling block for America's slack public school curriculum.

As a non-scientist, why do you feel qualified to evaluate the validity of the science?

Validity of the science and the results obtained as published in the IPCC Reports were not examined, yet the deceptions were to cover these problems.

Opportunities include being more vocal on the importance of this topic, the validity of the science, and the need to take reasonable actions.»

Though the science of climate change is clear, certain American conservatives deny the validity of the science and describe its conclusions as a political scam, a confusion of science and politics which could prove very dangerous... No American would deny the science of ballistics, but some deny climate science.

Markey further pressed Boyce on Peabody Energy's petition for reconsideration of the EPA Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases, asking for a straight answer on the validity of the science.

If politics is allowed to excuse fraud and ridiculously dumb papers, then our case to the public, our case for the importance and validity of science, would fall apart.

That in no way detracts from the importance of examining the validity of the science.

If you download the memo and read the whole thing, you will notice that Luntz never expressly denies the validity of the science.

If your motivation was to answer questions as to the validity of the science in the papers in question, I think that you have not chosen a particularly effective path.

While many resent the academic paper Omalu has published in a medical journal, his boss Dr. Cyril Wecht (Albert Brooks) recognizes the validity of the science and agrees that it must be put forward and presented for public view.

Specifically, there are doubts about the validity of the science behind matchmaking algorithms.

Of these two forms of science denialism, the Republican version is more dangerous because the party has taken to attacking the validity of science itself as a basis for public policy when science disagrees with its ideology.

But the Republican version is particularly dangerous because it attacks the validity of science itself.

And the proof of the universal validity of science is technology: it works, quite independently of whether «it feels right for me».

Not exact matches

But while successful commercial energy from these projects could be decades away, assuming they succeed, Dr. Vogt believes General Fusion will likely be compared to the Cold Fusion experiments of the 1990s — science that was all hype with no validity.

It's amusing how you use the discoveries of modern science to retro - fit the validity and understanding of bible verses.

Hate to burst your little bubble, but this isn't a debate of the validity of your «ghost God», but whether creationism should be taught in science class.

If we are right, then we lived our lives to their fullest in intellectual honesty, without the fear of some tyrant getting their hands on us after we die, and without having taken some stupid stand against the validity of sound science, or basic human rights.

For the non-religious, belief in science (for example) comes first, and explanations on the validity of that belief will inevitably follow.

Ricky boy, I'm not here to fluff my science knowledge feathers as you darwinists do, hoping to prove validity of your evolution - religion, nor do I care to be «scientifically correct», although I could, if I wanted to....

Actually, modern science put a lot more of effort into discrediting discoveries that point to validity of claims made by religion, than the opposite.

The student is helped to acquire the aptitudes needed in order to do history or philosophy or a social science as aptitudes needed to inquire critically into the validity of Christian witness.

Thus far, it has been shown that a philosophical case can readily be made for the assertion that the validity as well as origins of science derive from the assumption of the validity of Western theistic premises.

The exultation of Science is still evident in modern society and it has been fuelled by the condemnation of the validity of miracles and Christian teaching especially by philosophers such as David Hume, who argued: «No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle...», and Richard Dawkins, the atheist evolutionist who promulgates the belief that: «The true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival.»

He is attracted to Jürgen Habermas's model of «reconstructive science,» in which one derives certain «validity claims» from communicative action itself — claims that must be «redeemed» in a public discourse.

Modern science and technology would have to be more modest, human rights would have to receive better grounds and be coupled with duties and gratitude, and the validity of a «personal point of view» on things would have to be recognized.

I agree that science including archaeology and the social sciences have proven the validity of many things in the Bible, but not necessarily at the same level or detail... and not always in total agreement.

«To suggest we can't know how old the Earth is, then, is to deny the validity of these scientific methods altogether» - No it's to be open minded to the idea that we might be wrong, on the other hand to accept these dates without question or reservation is to accept current science without question.

Perhaps it's because the post-modern world tries to apply the scientific method to determine the validity of sacred writings, and that debates about religion invariably propose the false dichotomy of faith vs. science.

Social science has a long tradition of using computational and agent - based modelling approaches (e.g. Schelling's Model of Segregation), but the new challenge is to feed real - life, and sometimes even real - time information into those systems to get gain rapid insights into the validity of research hypotheses.

Forensic science is an important tool for investigating crime and helping to determine guilt or innocence at trial, but questions have been raised about the validity and reliability of many forensic disciplines.

Following a crucial 2009 report by the National Academies of Science (NAS), doubts about the validity and reliability of forensic practices have been increasingly raised.

With this said, it's important to go in with open eyes, mindful of guarding the validity and integrity of your science.

Update: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a draft rule on «Strengthening Transparency and Validity in Regulatory Science» to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the White House's Office of Managment and Budget on 19 April, reports E&E News.

We have to attribute validity to certain sources because we just don't know enough about every branch of science ourselves.

After complaints from scientific and educational associations, federal officials promised to extend the validity of Mantis clearances (Science, 27 August 2004, p. 1222).

I see some validity to this point; that is why The End of Science focused on pure rather than applied research.

No one knows how many innocent people have been convicted based on junk forensic science, but the National Research Council report recommends substantial funding increases to enable labs to conduct experiments to improve the validity and reliability of the many forensic subfields.

Questions about the validity of forensic science will not go away, and failure to address them will lead to further convictions of innocent people.

J. Willard Gibbs, one of the most revered icons of American Science, spent a lifetime of careful analysis to establish the validity of the «new» science of ThermodyScience, spent a lifetime of careful analysis to establish the validity of the «new» science of Thermodyscience of Thermodynamics.

LA JOLLA — With forensic science facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served on the National Commission on Forensic Science are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of ouscience facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served on the National Commission on Forensic Science are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of ouScience are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of ouscience as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of outcomes.

The similarity between these groundbreaking formulations is the decades of science backing their validity and health restorative effects.

It's something that's frowned on in traditional medical circles, with many doctors saying there's no science to show the validity of this diet.

Among the entries, we find Bambino musing about the impact of charter schools; the need in schools for more business partnerships and community involvement; the «us and them» divide between teachers and parents; the validity of the school science fair; and the need for more time to plan and reflect.

Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 % of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a whole other set of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)