Sentence examples for scientific misunderstanding from inspiring English sources

The opposition to fracking is a product of scientific misunderstanding – or worse, an agenda put forward by supposed environmental advocates who stand to profit if natural gas never lives up to its full potential.

For example, Shermer suggests that concerns about the consequences of evolution and scientific misunderstanding partially explain resistance to evolution, but the psychological evidence for these claims is remarkably slim (e.g., Brem et al. 2003; Lombrozo et al. 2006, 2008).

But serious scientific misunderstandings are rampant.

Such tactics may be driven by impatience with the research timeline or scientific process, misunderstanding of innovation, and intolerance of the need to understand underpinning theory and interpret empirical results.

Plan B poses no health risks and will be used correctly by girls under 17, but that's only partially relevant to this objection; this is an argument about parental control, even for parents whose beliefs are founded on scientific or behavioural misunderstandings.

The judge said Cadbury now accepted that the testing system introduced in 2003, which was based on a misunderstanding of scientific literature, was "badly flawed and wrong".

Although no one can know the future, social science still tries to do so because of a deep-rooted misunderstanding about scientific knowledge.

And Rudolph and Stewart (1998 p. 1076) observed that: "problematic has been the tendency for science educators to use the physics model [that is focussed on laws] in the development of curriculum intended to address general issues concerning the nature of science, thus perpetuating a misunderstanding of scientific method that may foreclose the effective learning of evolutionary biology".

Once I overcame my frustration, I started to think about the misuse and misunderstanding of scientific ideas.

Bills such as these will only foster misunderstandings of scientific principles, especially within the field of evolutionary biology; the Darwin Day organization works to combat these misunderstandings.

Other researchers have highlighted teachers' misunderstandings of scientific theories (Jackson et al. 1995) and their view that evolution is 'only a theory' (BouJaoude et al. 2011).