What is the science behind hypnosis?
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It might make sense to a judge or a lawyer, but it is almost the antithesis of what science is all about.
Not least of which is the question of original sin, a tradition that seems harder and harder to reconcile with what science is telling us about human origins, because it presupposes a fixed idea of human nature.
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Contamination of what is billed as science-based risk assessment by activist researchers and by the precautionary principle has become a pervasive problem.
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It is what science should be about, says one of the very best of them, Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London.
Taken together, this is what I think the science says: ADHD is a serious disorder that has long-term negative consequences on a person's life.
They are in the vanguard of what is called "hard" science fiction, in which most of the writing is based on actual scientific principles.
We live in a world, however, where anyone who tries to explain what the science suggests is likely to happen if we keep doing nothing is attacked as an alarmist by conservatives, disinformers, and their enablers in the media.
And this is where things get tricky and you realize what an imperfect science this management evaluation is.
Rather, what distinguishes science from conjecture is the scientific method that accompanies it.
Science is what got several of our guests where they are today, so I just want to make a couple of introductions.
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What science consumers need is a cheat sheet for people of sound mind to use when considering a product, book, therapy, or remedy.
What is certain is that the limitless imagination of mankind has turned science fiction heat rays into the near future reality of weapons on the battleground.
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However, what we have to understand is that science and technology itself is neither good nor bad.
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What is more, while there is uncertainty is some aspects of climate science there there is much less in others.
My copy of Asimov on Science, which collects his best essays on science, is what I read to teach myself how to make my own writing accessible and clear.
"What we are doing is the basic science to design these things, like how big should items be, and how they can stop interfering with each other, " explained Professor Brewster.
One major unsettled issue in climate science indeed is what this sensitivity is, and several threads of information, including the surface temperature history, and water vapor and cloud data argue Lindzen may be correct.
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What we want is clear, bright science.
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Roger, you are the head of what is perhaps the most prestigious atmospheric science laboratory on the planet, and, as such, I presume that you will always go the extra mile to protect the reputation of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and its related University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
In what is always a bad sign for solid science, they found that any connections between blocking frequency and global warming are highly dependent upon the methodology they used.
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The mistake Searle is making is to think that what is objectively real (in the sense of that which exists in itself and not relative to perceivers) is exhausted by what is natural and therefore accessible to natural science.
What seems to be attractive in science is no longer its being a high intellectual activity, a continuous human search to represent and predict nature, but for what it can produce in terms of controlling, and therefore in terms of power, of mankind on his sorroundings and his fellows.
And a long duration living and working in space is what the Space Station is all about -- to do the research and the science necessary to take us beyond Earth orbit.
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The first duty of the government scientists at the USGCRP is to produce a complete picture of the science of the issue of global warming, which is what the taxpayers are paying them for.
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The science is fascinating, but what does it mean and why should you care?
Lord West says the "boat-stopping system" is only a small part of what science and technology can do to help counter the terrorist threat.
But apart from the moral horrors that many of these ideas bring to the fore, what they also share is a fundamental misunderstanding of science.
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