Then in 1985 came the first big bloom of brown tide algae, whose cause is still the subject of scientific conjecture.
This brings us back to Obama's attempt to vilify and ridicule scientists who disagree with his lay scientific conjecture.
The choice between monogenesis and polygenesis remains squarely at the level of scientific conjecture and no one can determine a priori which hypothesis to rule out.
Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter complained that Primer "nearly gets lost in a miasma of technical jargon and scientific conjecture".
In total, it offers an ambitious conflation of biography, art history, and neuroscience layered with scientific and sociological conjecture.
A scientific dialogue of conjecture and refutation at first tries to dismiss the notion of a causal relation between agent/determinant A and disease D along the four issues "temporal relation," "association," "environmental equivalence," and "population equivalence".
We must remind ourselves that tree hypotheses, like all scientific hypotheses, are conjectures, not facts.
Most compellingly, Potter examines the provisional nature of scientific inquiry, in which conjecture can lead to insight and a weakness of a hypothesis can become a strength.
Bostrom calls this the Technological Completion Conjecture: "If scientific- and technological-development efforts do not effectively cease, then all important basic capabilities that could be obtained through some possible technology will be obtained".
Bostrom calls this the Technological Completion Conjecture: "If scientific- and technological-development efforts do not effectively cease, then all important basic capabilities that could be obtained through some possible technology will be obtained". In light of this, he suspects that the farther into the future one looks the less likely it seems that life will continue as it is.
He recognized that the study of aging had lacked robust scientific inquiry, and he conjectured that molecular biology tools could fuel real progress in the field--a forward-looking viewpoint that few others espoused at the time, says immunologist Claudio Franceschi, director of the Italian National Research Center on Aging in Ancona.
