If it hasn't, then the premise of Harris's all-we-need-is-science argument must have nonscientific origins.
The science argument is that the damage of secondhand smoke has been vastly overstated by anti-tobacco zealots.
And shouldn't our super-modern society be a little bit too evolved and open-minded for the either/or religion vs. science argument?
Because of what he views as a lack of consensus on the gravity of the environmental threat, Jindal felt free to try to turn the science argument against the Obama administration.
Crowing about Dawkins's inability to remember the full, tongue-twisting title of a 150-year-old book says more about the shallowness of anti-science arguments than his early morning memory lapse.
Correcting this material, providing the real data and evidence behind it is critical to showing what science is and what it means and preventing (or at least minimising) the use of non-science and pseudo-science arguments against proper scientific studies and research, and of course educating people as to how to separate the two.
Before that, "academic freedom" was prominent part of Wendell Bird's pro-creation science arguments.
Individual researchers, and organizations working in the NTDs and infectious disease more generally, have argued explicitly for the value of social sciences research [ 27- 29], or have used social science arguments to advance the political cause of NTDs research.
Again, this perspective can use conservation science arguments to back its arguments, as the Natura 2000 conservation framework is also seen as being too static by some conservation scholars that underline the necessity to revise it given the growing evidence of climatic changes (Cliquet et al. 2009a, b; Araújo et al. 2011).
More importantly, this finding can also have implications when teaching science as argument (e.g., Erduran and Jimenez-Aleixandre 2008), since the verbal evidence used in the science classroom to maintain an argument could be supported by visual evidence (either a model, representation, image, graph, etc).
That's hardly a science-based argument!
