Activists' purely speculative concerns about rBST -- ranging from the destruction of small family farms to the risk of cancer -- have proven baseless.
There are many over-the-counter drugs that could be harmful if used in the wrong way, but were not prevented from coming to market by speculative concerns about how they might be abused by young consumers.
Maybe it's that they will vote for a bill, despite their speculative concerns that it will create an intrusive federal registry (something like that intrusive federal registry of people with bad driving records, or of people with passports, or of people born in the United States), and then the law will have no effect.
The physics to which the paper refers, mostly obliquely, is speculative, and concerns ideas that have been used to explain processes on cosmological time scales, such as the formation of galaxies, or the emergence of the complex structures needed for life and intelligence from the primordial chemical soup.
Traditionally, speculative philosophy concerns itself with metaphysical and ontological questions what exists in the world.
Such a broad construal may serve to introduce speculative discussions concerning the nature of AI, but it loses all contact with the genuine, new logical problems in temporal reasoning that have been discovered by the AI community.
I shall also discuss some speculative ideas concerning the appearance of our universe out of nothing.
An attorney for the developer told the Kaibab National Forest in a June 2 letter that federal law did not require it to consider "highly speculative effects" concerning impacts on water supplies, since those have not been officially identified.
Another friend, Gian-Carlo Rota, asserted in a 1987 article that the attack changed Ulam's personality; afterwards, he turned from rigorous pure mathematics to more speculative conjectures concerning the application of mathematics to physics and biology.
Our finding that fluid shear stress can exacerbate the inflammatory response due to an intracellular pathogen leads us to some speculative remarks concerning the physiological significance of hydrodynamic regulation of infection.
