As much as the scientific community tries to say, 'Well, look, this oil is very light, you got a huge evaporative effect, and you got land forty to sixty miles from the source, and the use of dispersants subsea' — these are all the reasons why, in their minds, you got this huge slug underneath somewhere waiting to just pounce on them, and the weather is going to bring the oil in their houses.
By citing universal laws, a scientific explanation tries to describe why an event necessarily happened.
For example, since more than 35 years, the international medical scientific community tries to solve the problem of the off-label use of pediatric drugs.
I think economists try to pretend it's too complicated, and use very complicated mathematical models just to look scientific and try to impress other people".
"It's the scientific community trying to step out front and be responsible," he said.
It's the scientific community trying to step out front and be responsible".
For those with a scientific bent, trying to deliberately harness such effects smacks of charlatanism.
The more sober and scientific he tried to sound, the more April and T.J. seemed to take him for some unhinged Trekkie babbling on about his time machine.
When instructing new participants in The Scientific Method™, try to get them using it for themselves as early as possible instead of memorising the body of knowledge.
Jeff Forgan, the company's chief financial officer, said, "Whether it's perfect science or somewhat scientific, we try to calculate R.O.I. in everything we do".
