Sentences with phrase «worse than science»

After all, there's a chance the future could be a lot worse than science suspects.

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«The amount of spam I'm getting because of the spammers reacting to the new anti-spam law to reduce spam is worse than any spam I got before,» added University of Waterloo political science professor Emmett Macfarlane.
After several bad hires that we initially thought were a perfect fit — we realized that science and technology are probably better predictors of sales success than we are.
and being aware of your environment, being respectful of those of all beliefs and none beliefs, and of our world, and its about personal responsibility, with that said why is is such a bad thing to believe in something greater than yourself, how can somebody live there life without believing in something, what kind of life is that, life is meant to be discovered, its one big mystery, and all the science in the world can still not prove how we exactly came to be?
Science Works Their bark is worse than their bite.
... and how much worse it would be if she had relied on prayer rather than science - based medical care for her child.
It is more philosophy than science (not a bad thing), so I personally don't follow it very well.
Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).
Science is not a motivator for bad behavior (other than some minor scientific fraud cases).
For the optimists, science and technology are not the architects of a fate worse than death.
Yet some either deny a concept of God based on a human like diety... without logically understanding it has to be something more than that... or worse only see a chaotic uncaring universe..., without understanding the complexity of the infinite miracles, defined by science alone, not to mention the influence of noy yet known to science, occurences... that have occurred for billions of years to end up in their creation and also supporting their every day survival.
I know there is a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that the Universe is significantly older than this, but I think a lot of that evidence comes from bad science, or from a worldwide conspiracy of scientists who want to deny Leprechauns.
Bad science will always anger me more than religion.
After five years of watching bad science, defensiveness from both sides, and extremist advocacy rather than balance, I've written an article which is an appeal for nuance on the issue of low carbohydrate diets.
Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections of science, or the very essentialism denied by its proponents.
Attempting to understand the benefits and perils of science, one can do no better than reading Ben Goldacre's Bad Science (Harper Perennial #science, one can do no better than reading Ben Goldacre's Bad Science (Harper Perennial #Science (Harper Perennial # 8.99).
«I can't think of many things worse in life than being a Republican member of the Assembly,» said Hunter College political science professor Ken Sherrill.
Tooling Up Book Club: Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting sScience: Leaving the Ivory Tower by Peter Fiske, 22 May 1998 Science Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting sScience Careers columnist Peter Fiske discussed a book that dashes the stereotypes that scientists who go for alternative careers have necessarily had bad research experiences, don't purposefully seek out careers that are better suited to them than academia, and do not find ways to stay close to exciting sciencescience.
In the end, NASA funding didn't fare much better or worse than other science agencies.
Those shown a fearful face were better at identifying whether thick stripes were vertical or slightly tilted and worse at identifying the orientation of thin stripes than those shown neutral faces (Psychological Science, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02354.x).
The judge ruled that focusing on a supposed controversy rather than being straight about science was «at best disingenuous and at worst a canard».
«We need the political leadership to affirm the primacy of science as a way of knowing, or problems will be far worse than they are already,» Socolow said.
Engineering, physical sciences, and life / med sciences are clustered together at the other end of the scale, but the life / med category is significantly worse than the others.
Despite a reputation for being less hospitable to women than to men, science professors were not the worst discriminators.
The peculiar nature of the earthquake was one reason it killed fewer than 9000 people, and it could have been far worse, says Jean - Philippe Avouac, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and leader of the studies, published today in Science and in Nature Geoscience.
Beyond the currently dysfunctional labor market for science jobs, something else that badly needs disrupting is the pernicious ideology that sees scientists seeking off - campus careers as failed academics rather than as experts who are very valuable to the right employers.
Yet Graham Allison, assistant secretary of defense in the first Clinton administration and now director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, places the odds of a nuclear strike within the next decade at 51 — 49 — slightly worse than the toss of a coin.
That's less than a tenth of the United States's science stimulus package, but that's a still a lot of money in the United Kingdom, which has arguably been hurt even worse than the United States in the world economic crisis.
According to analyses that have been published in Science and carried out by the California Air Resources Board, corn - based ethanol is actually worse than gasoline, mainly because growing more corn for ethanol forces farmers to clear additional grasslands and forests to grow food crops.
For more than 170 years we have documented, for better and for worse, the rise of science and technology and their impact on the nation and the world.
Of course, we can now say that it was bad science, but that category too requires more than mere scientific analysis.
«Our study shows that individuals with obesity who consume artificial sweeteners, particularly aspartame, may have worse glucose management than those who don't take sugar substitutes,» says Professor Jennifer Kuk, obesity researcher in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science.
This gender gap is bad news for everyone: Science and society lose talent, while women miss out on potential careers with higher - than - average income and job stability.
Ongoing science reveals that climate change is worse than we feared.
The American predicament may be even worse than the graph below suggests because more than a third of the science and engineering doctorates earned at U.S. universities in recent years have gone to foreigners, many of whom return to their homelands after graduation.
The result, detailed in July in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, suggests that burning trash isn't just bad for human health — it could pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than had been realized.
However, the city needs to be planning for those types of huge barriers more as part of a longer - term plan, and as preparation for the possibility that climate change and sea - level rise may be worse than expected, warns the analysis, published last week in Science.
«Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon,» said Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decisions sciences and engineering and public policy.
After years of study, University of South Florida College of Marine Science researchers and colleagues have identified reasons why some years are worse than others for the harmful alga bloom (HAB) Karenia brevis, called «red tide,» when it occurs off the west coast of Florida.
I'm getting the sense that as science reports slowly & meticulously grind out the overall thrust continues to be «It's worse than we earlier thought.»
Flannery is quite critical of the IPCC process, describing it as «lowest common denominator science» and claiming that it must be assumed that things are likely to be worse than are described in those reports.
Her new book, «A Course in Deception,» draws on her experiences in science, and weaves a tale of how greed and pressures to publish can lead to even worse outcomes than the sort we write about at Retraction Watch.
-- The common oil that science now shows is worse than sugar
Is the science that suggests that processed carbs are bad, and sugars make you fat good, and better than low - fat process food grain based diet.
She includes just the right dose of science and education to motivate us to not put the food in our bodies, which in my experience is more powerful than telling someone a food is «bad» and they shouldn't eat it.
While science has provided us with more ways to combat the bad bacteria we're exposed to, it's more important now, than it ever has been, that we continue to build our army of good guys.
I will spend a bit of time going over this and the next study cited by CarbSane and presented here, as they are excellent examples of really bad science (if that word should even be used at all) that are very misleading, and they in no way support the position that increasing carbohydrate intake is healthy... at best perhaps only somewhat less unhealthy than worse diets.
Based on the latest science we believe your body and overall health is dependent on having more good bacteria in the gut than bad.
Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century — none more damaging than the «calories - in, calories - out» model of why we get fat — and the good science that has been ignored, especially regarding insulin's regulation of our fat tissue.
Our skin hosts trillions of bacteria good ones and they thrive in the slightly acidic environment on the skin (yes this means that baking soda baths are pseudo science / logic never ingest or bath in Baking soda it will screw up your PH even your intestines are acidic that is why vinegar works so well to balance the flora of our gut) Worse comes worse you skin will start to tear and your skin can become prone to flesh eating bacteria (yes in theory dabbing Apple cider vinegar would be the best cure than antibiotics) I have been searching high and low for anyone who has found a way to get Mg through an alternative preparation like mixing it with apple cider vinWorse comes worse you skin will start to tear and your skin can become prone to flesh eating bacteria (yes in theory dabbing Apple cider vinegar would be the best cure than antibiotics) I have been searching high and low for anyone who has found a way to get Mg through an alternative preparation like mixing it with apple cider vinworse you skin will start to tear and your skin can become prone to flesh eating bacteria (yes in theory dabbing Apple cider vinegar would be the best cure than antibiotics) I have been searching high and low for anyone who has found a way to get Mg through an alternative preparation like mixing it with apple cider vinegar.
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