He feared that it would "perpetuate class distinctions, and postpone social reform," and afford quasi-scientific excuses for keeping people ''in the positions Nature intended them to occupy" (Ibid. 246).
Fine fodder for women looking for a scientific-sounding excuse to throw away their running shoes.
In recent weeks, North Korea has said it has the right to launch a scientific satellite, an excuse, analysts in South Korea say, the North has adopted to avoid United Nations sanctions and any potential U.S. attempt to shoot down its missiles.
Together with some administrative sections, for example to excuse scientific researchers from prosecution or to reward whistle-blowers who report crimes, these elements make up the Model Law.
Humbleness is in order; there is no excuse for scientific conceit here".
"There is simply no excuse -- scientific, legal or otherwise -- for the F.D.A. to delay the release of these guidelines," the lawmakers said in a letter to the F.D.A.
His relentlessly pessimistic view of society becomes unpleasant and his admission that the book is drawn from anecdotal evidence rather than scientific enquiry doesn't excuse the holes that open up in his arguments.
Two in particular beg to be quoted: "As a scientist, I am dismayed by the common tactic of pleading scientific uncertainty as an excuse for inaction;" and "Foregoing the opportunity to make money is not the same as losing money".The book is written in an appealing style with a strong focus on the salmon's evolution and habitat.
Japan is using scientific research as an excuse to conduct commercial whaling in defiance of an international ban, Australia said on Wednesday at the start of a landmark legal bid to put a permanent end to the annual slaughter of almost 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean.
His relentlessly pessimistic view of society becomes unpleasant and his admission that the book is drawn from anecdotal evidence rather than scientific inquiry doesn't excuse the holes that open up in his arguments … I feel horrified by the old world he looks back on with such nostalgia".
