Their truth resembles rather the validity of agreements than the compelling validity of scientific statements.
As expected, it took students much longer to assess the veracity of true scientific statements that cut against our instincts.
Two bold scientific statements bookended the decade – James Hansen's statement to the US senate in 1988 and the 1999 hockey stick graph.
He asked a hundred and fifty college undergraduates who had taken multiple college-level science and math classes to read several hundred scientific statements.
But when it comes to more interesting propositions-assertions of right and wrong, judgments of beauty, grand historical narratives, talk about possibilities, scientific statements about unobservable entities — the objectivity of truth becomes harder to defend.
I stumbled on a new collection of climate poems (and scientific statements), available as a pdf download online from the British Council, an international organization devoted to promoting British culture and ideas around the world.
It could be that theoretical scientific statements are not, despite appearances, genuine statements at all but rules of inference in disguise, so that the question of their truth (or falsehood) simply does not arise.
Mostly narrated by a protean being with the unpronounceable name Qfwfq (I'm happy to go along with Robert Coover's "Kwoofk"), each story uses scientific statements as launch pads for imaginative tours de force, exploring the domestic, the romantic and the existential via astronomy, geology and evolutionary biology.
Pope John Paul II, in an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on October 22 , 1996 deplored interpreting the Bible's texts as scientific statements rather than religious teachings, adding: New scientific knowledge has led us to realize that the theory of evolution is no longer a mere hypothesis.
The heart association publishes about three scientific statements each month, typically on more technical matters, but the group was prompted to take a stance on the pet issue by the growing number of news reports and medical studies linking pet ownership to better health.
The correspondence theory of truth involves the comparison of convictions with other scientific statements.
