These popular books, written by major scientists with unquestionable stature in their scientific fields, had the effect of legitimizing public discourse as a worthwhile activity for scientists.
Dr. Rignot gave a great summary when I contacted him, "Observations published in a number of recent, independent studies in the scientific literature provide unquestionable and timely evidence that climate change has already significantly shaken up the giant ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica".
Since the 1980s historians such as Patricia Fara, Simon Schaffer, Larry Stewart, and Richard Yeo have demonstrated the divergent uses to which Isaac Newton's seemingly unquestionable authority was put in scientific and wider cultural enterprises, and shown the corresponding need to be sensitive to the complexities of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Newtonianism.
The devastating consequences of smoking to human health is unquestionable, and the purpose of this scientific investigation was not to investigate the potential protection of smoking by certain variants of APOE genotype, but rather to investigate the potential for effect modification as a means of understanding the biological processes by which APOE increases the risk of CHD.
Whenever scientific claims are presented as unquestionable, they undermine science.
"The scientific profile of Ricciardi is unquestionable," comments Claudio Argentini, an ISS researcher and executive of a trade union for researchers, USB PI Ricerca.
It is one of the most successful scientific theories ever: it is supported by vast and unquestionable empirical and technological effectiveness and is today virtually unchallenged.
In the scientific community, the support for the theory of evolution is unquestionable.
Although there is undoubtedly cause for concerns among the scientific community over nanotechnology risk management, the efficacy of E-Nano is unquestionable.
As long as we merely adopt this latent view, rather than questioning it, it will pervade scientific discourse up to the point of becoming self-evident and seemingly unquestionable, so that not only science but also philosophy of science will fall victim to its sway.
These initial findings have important consequences as the scientific and social significance of being able to predict the onset of AD before clinical symptoms appear is of unquestionable benefit.
