The problem is that the behavorial sciences like psychiatry are not really sciences; they are semi-sciences.
It was semi-science fiction.
Britain's politics was left blinded by semi-science.
By liberating pensioners from the need to convert their savings into a lifetime annuity, he also challenged the status of the 300-year-old science – or semi-science – of actuarial prediction.
The actor believes that after nine years "of living in a semi-science-fictional universe" – that of The X-Files – she feels she now has "an ingrained knowledge and rhythm for it".
In fact, recent newspaper articles have argued that psychiatry is a "semi-science" whose practitioners cannot base their treatment of mental disorders on the same empirical evidence as physicians who treat disorders of the body can.
His most recent script for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, is a semi-science fiction story that concerns a man who tries to mend his broken heart by undergoing an operation to remove the memory of his love affair.
But it did and she has and by the end of the first season "Orphan Black" was not simply a quirky showcase for a seriously talented actress, it was a multi-faceted, only semi-science-fiction exploration of identity, mortality, religion and science.
Watson's next popular book, "Genes, Girls, and Gamow" (that's George Gamow, the ebullient Ukrainian-born physicist who worked on the genetic code), picked up the story, with the proprietary mishmash of skirt-chasing, name-dropping, semi-opaque science and catty asides — a style reprised with a vengeance in "Avoid Boring People: Lessons From a Life in Science".
The physicist and author Jeremy Bernstein, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it "one of the best books of popular or semi-popular science writing I have ever read," and pointed to the author's dogged interviewing as a key to its power.
There were 10 finalists who performed on the night, young minds who had undergone a gruelling series of heats, semi-finals and science communication training.
