But this did not prevent the pool of ringside newspaper reporters from declaring a consensus result among themselves and printing a newspaper decision in their publications.

The consensus among modern scholars is that the Bastarnae were, in the 2nd century, divided into two main groups.

But while he had reported some success against the rebels, Tombalbaye started behaving more and more irrationally and brutally, continuously eroding his consensus among the southern elites, which dominated all key positions in the army, the civil service and the ruling party.

There is consensus among scholars that, whether or not it is religious, Confucianism is definitively non-theistic.

Despite the consensus of public health professionals regarding the benefits of vaccination, among chiropractors there are significant disagreements over the subject, which has led to negative impacts on both public vaccination and mainstream acceptance of chiropractic.

According to consensus among cosmologists, dark matter is composed primarily of a new, not yet characterized, type of subatomic particle.

The Copenhagen interpretation is a consensus among some of the pioneers in the field of quantum mechanics that it is undesirable to posit anything that goes beyond the mathematical formulae and the kinds of physical apparatus and reactions that enable us to gain some knowledge of what goes on at the atomic scale.

However, the current consensus among the scientific community is that the extinction was triggered by the Chicxulub impact event in Central America ( which would have produced a sunlight-blocking dust cloud that killed much of the plant life and reduced global temperature, called an impact winter ).

Since 1979, President Obiang has been constrained only by a need to maintain a consensus among his advisers and political supporters, most of whom are drawn from the Nguema family in Mongomo, in the eastern part of Río Muni.

There are different interpretations of the significance of the Eucharist, but according to the Encyclopædia Britannica " there is more of a consensus among Christians about the meaning of the Eucharist than would appear from the confessional debates over the sacramental presence, the effects of the Eucharist, and the proper auspices under which it may be celebrated.

There is near consensus among historians and Christian theologians that Paul is the author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, typically classifying its authorship as " undisputed " ( see Authorship of the Pauline Epistles ).

That's the consensus among economists.

There is a growing consensus among historians that the Library of Alexandria likely suffered from several destructive events, but that the destruction of Alexandria's pagan temples in the late 4th century was probably the most severe and final one.

The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused primarily by failure to end the downward economic spiral.

There is a general consensus among scholars that the first formative event in the emergence of the distinctive religion described in the Bible was triggered by the destruction of Israel by Assyria in c. 722 BCE.

Externalists have offered a variety of responses but there is no consensus among epistemologists as to whether these replies are successful ( Cohen, 1984 ; Sosa, 1991 ).

For example, Japanese society is more group-oriented ( e. g., decisions tend to be taken by consensus among groups, rather than by individuals ).

James Dunn states that there is " broad consensus " among scholars regarding the nature of an authentic reference to Jesus in the Testimonium and what the passage would look like without the interpolations.

James Dunn states that the works of Josephus include two separate references to Jesus and although there are some interpolations in the Testomonium, there is " broad consensus " among scholars regarding the nature of an authentic reference to Jesus in the Testimonium and what the passage would look like without the interpolations.

Recently, a consensus has been emerging among proponents of the Nostratic hypothesis.

The outcome of player actions may be mediated by game rules, or determined by consensus among players.

Until the mid-1990s, a strong consensus existed among economists, both conservative and liberal, that the minimum wage reduced employment, especially among younger and low-skill workers.

In the early 1990s, there was a rough consensus among industry analysts that the mainframe was a dying market as mainframe platforms were increasingly replaced by personal computer networks.

Nigeria also has played a leading role in forging an anti-terrorism consensus among states in Sub-Saharan Africa.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

The Institute for Creation Research, in order to treat evolution as a category of religions, including atheism, fascism, humanism and occultism, commonly uses the words evolutionism and evolutionist to describe the consensus of mainstream science and the scientists subscribing to it, thus implying through language that the issue is a matter of religious belief.

In 1990 he founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project to advocate this position, and in 2006 was named by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of a minority of scientists said to be creating a stand-off on a consensus on climate change.

* List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

One of the authors ' main arguments is that most prominent scientists who have been voicing opposition to the near-universal consensus are being funded by industries, such as automotive and oil, that stand to lose money by government actions to regulate greenhouse gases.

The IPCC provides an internationally accepted authority on climate change, producing reports which have the agreement of all the leading climate scientists and the consensus of every one of the participating governments.

In the case of a general acceptance of one paradigm or another, Kuhn believed that it represented the consensus of the community of scientists.

With regard to a prominent mental disorder, Schizophrenia, for a long time consensus among scientists was that certain alleles ( forms of genes ) were responsible for schizophrenia, but some research has indicated only multiple, rare mutations thought to alter neurodevelopmental pathways that can ultimately contribute to schizophrenia ; virtually every rare structural mutation was different in each individual.

One way that journalists inflate uncertainty is by describing new research that contradicts past research without providing context for the change Other times, journalists give scientists with minority views equal weight as scientists with majority views, without adequately describing or explaining the state of scientific consensus on the issue.

Various causes have been implicated, but none has consensus among scientists as the cause of scoliosis, though the role of genetic factors in its development is widely accepted.

The purpose of this petition was to show a lack of consensus among scientists on the subject of global warming.

Bolin is credited with bringing together a diverse range of views among the panel's 3, 500 scientists into something resembling a consensus.

He has long opposed the conventional consensus on global warming, pointing out that scientists are just as liable to err when the science appears to point in just one direction.

Once all of the criteria have been met, it will be widely accepted by scientists ( see scientific consensus ) as the best available explanation of at least some phenomena.

In practice this becomes difficult because of the amount of knowledge now possessed by science, and so an ability to balance critical thinking with an appreciation for consensus amongst the most relevant scientists becomes vital.

The overwhelming consensus of Earth and planetary scientists is that tektites consist of terrestrial debris that was ejected during the formation of an impact crater.

Starting with the publication of research concerning lunar samples returned from the Moon, the consensus of Earth and planetary scientists shifted in favor of theories advocating a terrestrial impact versus lunar volcanic origin.

The consensus of Earth and planetary scientists regards the chemical, i. e. rare-earth, isotopic, and bulk, composition, evidence as decisively demonstrating that tektites are derived from terrestrial crustal rock, i. e. sedimentary rocks, that are unlike any known lunar crust.

However, a consensus accepted by most scientists states that mammals as a group are defined by the possession of a special, secondarily evolved jaw joint between the dentary and the squamosal bones, which has replaced the primitive reptilian one between the articular and quadrate bones in all modern mammalian groups.

This scientific consensus is expressed in synthesis reports, scientific bodies of national or international standing, and surveys of opinion among climate scientists.

While the consensus opinion of the community is not always easy to ascertain, generally the standards and utility of the scientific method have tended to ensure that scientists agree on a standard, mainstream corpus of fact explicated by scientific theory while rejecting ideas which run counter to this realization.

" She went on to argue that " bsent consensus on the issue, or unanimity amongst scientists studying the issue, or a more prolonged period of observation of this new family structure, it is rational for the Legislature to postpone any redefinition of marriage that would include same-sex couples until such time as it is certain that redefinition will not have unintended and undesirable social consequences.

Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study.