Sentence examples for scientific abuse from inspiring English sources

The campaign group Sense About Science (SAS) has collated scores of examples of scientific abuse from the past year and today publishes its annual list of celebrity-science shame.

In other words, the defenders of scientific method abuse the word "objective" for proving the superiority of Western science vis-à-vis other worldviews.

The new chair, Representative John Dingell (D-MI), led strident hearings on scientific fraud and abuse of indirect cost recovery by universities in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

But the complaint is not so bizarre when one works through the references, because they so frequently expose careless reporting and environmentalists' abuse of scientific research.The replies to Dr Lomborg in Scientific American and elsewhere score remarkably few points of substance*.

Is this all scientific drivel, or merely abuse of the sacred word "could"?

Indeed, at the heart of this debate lies a more fundamental question about the use and abuse of scientific tools in the field of letters.

The connection is not surprising, but it raises a crucial scientific question: Does the abuse cause biological changes that may increase the risk for these problems?

Sense about Science, a London-based group that seeks to increase public understanding of science and promote evidence-based policy, has just created a Brussels offshoot that will "monitor the use and abuse of scientific evidence in EU policy".

Wager and Jefferson [ 9] (2001) highlighted some of the shortcomings of peer review, including its failure to discover errors and fraud, inefficiency, unnecessary delay and potential scientific misconduct when reviewers abuse their power in the peer-review system (e.g. rejecting a paper and plagiarizing its ideas and results) [ 10].

That makes him all the more aware of how scientific evidence is being abused, with a reliance on "very dubious" data.

We always hoped that the right and the left would find common ground; maybe we shouldn't be upset that this common ground is the abusing of scientific terms to mask their total ignorance.