Sentence examples for frivolous science from inspiring English sources

What we need, after decades of paranoia-inducing miseducation about environmental hazards, is to bury the frivolous science of Love Canal, TMI, silicone implants and vaccine litigation, then to return to our senses and prepare to deal rationally and calmly with the serious "environmental" hazards that most certainly lie ahead.

In a telephone interview today, Myhrvold said he plans to pursue a wide variety of personal interests, including travel and research on issues "a lot more frivolous than computer science" particularly dinosaurs.

You think of science fiction as frivolous?

Certainly at least one columnist in this paper regularly insists that the money we spend on exploratory science is a frivolous waste, when we could be spending it on prisons, medicine, art or practically anything else I presume.

That bit of news may seem to some like an anticlimax, a frivolous cap to an illustrious science career.

Smith has long complained about NSF's "frivolous" grants in the social sciences.

Even the Lower Snobbery is at it: the frivolous Stephen Fry, for instance, asked why science fiction writers take themselves seriously (as if there were an alternative).

The more serious issue is out-of-control personal injury lawyers who do and say anything to create science that supports these frivolous lawsuits.

Cousins said the ACF did not engage in vexatious or frivolous litigation, saying it was a reputable "science [and] economics-based organisation".

Conservatives are attacking certain economic stimulus package items related to science that they see as frivolous.

Smith has repeatedly labeled dozens of SBE grants as a "frivolous use of taxpayer money," and the science committee this week backed a $106 million cut to what SBE should be allowed to spend as part of a reauthorization of NSF programs.