First, the rigor of the science curriculum in medical schools has not kept pace with advances in the biological sciences; M.D. graduates lacking a rigorous science background find it difficult to develop research programs that can equal those of well-trained basic scientists.
If replication is what separates the rigor of science from the squishiness of pseudoscience, where do we put all these rigorously validated findings that can no longer be proved?
The Times has a tremendous responsibility to understand the nuance of this debate and strive to frame the debate accurately while not giving support to an idea that undermines the rigor of science.
Under cover of intellectual rigor, the science bloggers — or many of the most visible ones, anyway — prosecute agendas so charged with bigotry that it doesn't take a pun-happy French critic or a rapier-witted Cambridge atheist to call this whole ScienceBlogs enterprise what it is, or has become: class-war claptrap.
This naturally led to the appearance in Unknown of writers already comfortable with similar rigor in science fiction stories, and Campbell soon established a small group of writers as regular contributors, many of whom were also appearing in the pages of Astounding.
In complex organisations, research could be a common language used to talk across the boundaries of interests and content areas given its capacity to effectively link disparate realities and because of 'the patina of rigor that science confers to discourse'.
According to its website: "The men and women of the FBI Laboratory are dedicated to using the rigors of science to protect and defend the nation".
She enrolled in film school, she said, when she realized that the rigors of science and joys of tromping through the wild in muddy boots could be combined.
It must be reconstructed — to the degree that it is possible — through the eyes of witnesses and the rigors of science, but when your body falls still, your voice falls silent.
If scientists yearn for the freedom of artists, however, Mr. Sachs's studio operates as a place where artists — or at least the artist in chief — yearn for the rigors of science.
The Drug Enforcement Administration's official stance is that it has no medical value at all: "Smoked marijuana has not withstood the rigors of science — it is not medicine, and it is not safe".
