Sentence examples for prevailing science from inspiring English sources
We are drawn to the difficult problems, the ones for which prevailing science does not yet have a framework to understand.
— For decades, a small group of scientific dissenters has been trying to shoot holes in the prevailing science of climate change, offering one reason after another why the outlook simply must be wrong.
But exactly this avoidance of the prevailing science provided a chance for me to work on alternative ways of seed nursing and treatments in agriculture--and maybe today's methods will be those of yesterday soon.
He was skeptical of the prevailing science of craniometry -- which sought to correlate intelligence with head size -- and looked for other ways to measure human intelligence.
In each case, the Institute's goal, according to professor Naomi Oreskes of the University of California, San Diego, was to cast enough doubt on the prevailing science to delay needed legislation and government regulation for years and even decades.
A much-noted move by the nation's largest poultry provider to drastically reduce its use of human antibiotics in chickens apparently has little to do with the prevailing science that links such usage to antibiotic resistance in people.
But when any scientist dares to go against prevailing popular science he/she is dismissed and vilified, quite often marginalized by the scientific community.
Functionalism, and specially structural functionalism, was the prevailing social science paradigm during the 1950s and 1960s, but became the object of sustained criticism since the 1970s in a context of theoretical and methodological diversification.
Instead, there was a conception of how science ought to develop that was a by-product of the prevailing philosophy of science, as well as a popular, heroic view of scientific progress.
The prevailing paradigm of science has built itself on the precision and exactness of the pure sciences such as chemistry and physics.
One of the prevailing stereotypes in science is that resilience has a cultural element, and people of certain nationalities are not so easily driven to the edge.
