Research areas such as molecular life sciences and genomics, one could argue, reflect the modern scientific tendency towards iconoclasm.
Recently, at the Stephen H. Schneider Symposium on Climate Change, Oreskes addressed "the question of how scientific communication may have contributed to public confusion, particularly the scientific tendency to downplay dramatic results".
"Wherever you go in the Muslim world, those who are most violent and most extremist are the ones who have the most scientific tendencies," Mr. Abu Hanieh said.
Though Margaret's interactions with these men were mostly indirect, their influence is felt throughout her oeuvre, including her unusual "Philosophical Letters," of 1664, an imagined correspondence in which she debates many of their views and the mechanistic scientific tendencies of the time.
If an organization, for example, decides to invest $2 million in its future leaders by enrolling a cohort of employees into a public MBA program at a business school, should said organization be held to the singular innovation and ideas of faculty members from that one university through their "scientific model" tendencies or aim to add value themselves?
In addition to the laws, there are several empirical principles, one of which Clarke feels is fully applicable to his 1945 Wireless World article on the communications satellite; namely, that in making scientific prophecies the tendency is to be optimistic in the short range and pessimistic in the long.
To combat this tendency, scientific training teaches ways to prevent bias.
In the fields of business (Katzenbach and Smith, 1992) and engineering (Oakley et al., 2004), the importance of teams has been long recognized, and already in many scientific fields, the tendency of a scientist to work in isolation is giving way to a team-based research model (BECON, 2003; Humphrey et al., 2005).
The basic tendency in scientific research is towards anonymisation and normalisation of the scientific subject.
Countries with small scientific production show a tendency for importing scholars.
Some people might think Lawson an unsuitable role model when it comes to scientific understanding, given his tendency to make absurd claims that are demonstrably untrue.
