Sentences with phrase «vast majority of scientists working»

Rationalist's problem is that when he doesn't understand what the vast majority of scientists are saying, he doesn't do what a reasonable person does and try to find out more about the science, he assumes he's right and the vast majority of scientists working in the field are wrong.

But one thing is certain, I'm always going to weight the opinion of the vast majority of scientists working in the field higher than I am either Maggie Thatcher, Al Gore, or George Monbiot for that matter.

Either people accept that these scientific studies are presenting reasonable findings derived from legitimate methodologies, or they invent conspiracy theories to justify the claim that the vast majority of scientists working in this field are falsifying the data and research.

Not exact matches

In fact, the process is a good deal more deductive — the vast majority of working scientists begin by assuming scientific realism, then asking what underlying, noumenal features of the world might lead to the kind of evidence that we observe, then building a theory concerning what other kinds of evidence these noumena might produce, then seeking confirmatory and disconfirmatory evidence.

The vast majority of respondents are scientists working in areas of basic or applied research and development (see Survey Demographics box).

An HHS spokesperson says that the new department will control the money, while the vast majority of scientists would work «on a contractual basis» without leaving their current institute.

We know, based on the work and expertise of the vast majority of climate scientists and virtually every leading scientific organization in the world, that human - caused climate change is real and dangerous.

\ But I suspect the initial response of the vast majority of the folks who went on to become working scientists would include \ cool \ and \ elegant.

Well, one thing they don't have in common is that the vast majority of working, publishing climate scientists have concluded that global warming is real, is caused by us, and will have drastic consequences for millions of people in the next few decades.

The vast majority opinion was that scientists should give enough information on their data sources and methods so others who are scientifically capable can do their own brand of replication work, but that this does not extend to personal computer codes with all their undocumented sub routines etc..

On the whole, when a vast majority of scientists from a wide variety of disciplines have moved on and only want to be allowed get on with their work, not argue with diehard dissidents, stubborn backsliders, and well - financed PR, along with misguided legal campaigns (Mann et al.), you may assume it's because they've satisfied themselves to the best of their ability that the facts are as stated.

You seem to find it believable that the vast majority of scientists in the climate field — researchers, grad students, reviewers and national academies — are actively falsifying their work out of some combination of greed, confirmation bias and ideology.

So for an across - the - board research basics perspective piece, I'd expect that climate science, where the VAST majority of scientists are working within good research standards.

The vast majority of social scientists, however, will not read this work, or even know of its existence, and they will carry on as they are.