Recently, the possibility that the alcohol used in mouthrinses acts as a carcinogen was raised, but there is to date no scientific consensus on the issue.

The general consensus in the scientific community, however, was to associate this type of complexity with Kolmogorov, who was concerned with randomness of a sequence, while Algorithmic Probability became associated with Solomonoff, who focused on prediction using his invention of the universal a priori probability distribution.

Indeed, scientific consensus is that the breeding population of such an animal would be so large that it would account for many more purported sightings than currently occur, making the existence of such an animal an almost certain impossibility.

The consensus of the scientific community is that " breatharianism " is potentially lethal pseudoscience, and indeed several adherents of these practices have died from starvation.

There is no consensus on some terms describing carbon nanotubes in scientific literature: both "- wall " and "- walled " are being used in combination with " single ", " double ", " triple " or " multi ", and the letter C is often omitted in the abbreviation ; for example, multi-walled carbon nanotube ( MWNT ).

For example, in the political controversy over anthropogenic climate change that is prevalent in the United States-it has been thought that those who are opposed to the scientific consensus did so because of a lack of evidence.

Most established scientific knowledge is supported by a convergence of evidence: if not, the evidence is comparatively weak, and there will not likely be a strong scientific consensus.

) The strength of the evidence, considered together as a whole, results in the strong scientific consensus that the theory is correct.

The scientific consensus is that the Duesberg hypothesis is incorrect, and that HIV is the cause of AIDS.

The addition of HIV positivity to surveillance criteria as an absolutely necessary condition for case reporting occurred only in 1993, after a scientific consensus was established that HIV caused AIDS.

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 ).

There is no scientific consensus on how / if climate change may affect ENSO ..

As the scientific consensus grew, he continued to argue from a skeptical position.

In 1995 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) issued a report reflecting the scientific consensus that the balance of evidence suggests there is a discernible human influence on global climate.

There has been no scientific consensus on the carcinogenic properties of these agents in humans and studies are still on-going.

In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused mainly by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.

The energy lobby, oil industry advocates and free market think tanks have often been accused of overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.

However, presently, there is no scientific consensus on whether Hydra undergo senescence, as discussed hereinafter.

In 1999, Paul Ehrlich and others advocated public policies to improve the dissemination of valid environmental scientific knowledge and discourage junk science: ' The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports offer an antidote to junk science by articulating the current consensus on the prospects for climate change, by outlining the extent of the uncertainties, and by describing the potential benefits and costs of policies to address climate change.

The medical and scientific consensus is that Duesberg's hypothesis is pseudoscience, HIV having been conclusively proven to be the cause of AIDS and that global warming is occurring because of human activities .< ref name = Beyond >

However, scientific consensus is that there are at least two subspecies of the common carp, one from Western Eurasia ( Cyprinus carpio carpio ) and another from East Asia ( Cyprinus carpio haematopterus ).

The Marxist-Leninist state utilizes a state socialist economy, based on scientific planning and democratic consensus.

There is currently no consensus in the scientific community whether P. aethiopicus, P. boisei and P. robustus should be placed into a distinct genus, Paranthropus, which is believed to have evolved from the ancestral Australopithecus line.

The contemporary historian James W. Loewen agrees with the oral traditions in his book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong ( 1999 ), but there is not a consensus within the professional academic community.

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Such groups facilitate and encourage consensus decision-making with a focus on the general health of the community rather than a specific interest group.

Sunnis further argue that a caliph should ideally be chosen by election or community consensus.

However, the current consensus in the Earth science community is that this feature is unlikely to be an actual impact crater.

Sunni jurists use analogy and historical consensus of the community.

When the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany became apparent after the Second World War, the consensus within the world community was that the United Nations Charter did not sufficiently define the rights it referenced.

The Foundation takes an oversight role over X development: technical decisions are made on their merits by achieving rough consensus among community members.

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

A consensus emerged that in order for a tax to be just, the king had to prove its necessity, it had to be granted by the community of the realm, and it had to be to the benefit of that community.

The consensus of the Orthodox Jewish community has been that women are ineligible to becoming rabbis ; the growing calls for Orthodox yeshivas to admit women as rabbinical students have resulted in widespread opposition among the Orthodox rabbinate.

The current consensus of the scientific community is that the aerosols and dust released into the upper atmosphere causes cooler temperatures by preventing the sun's energy from reaching the ground.

In fact, there is growing consensus in the pediatric community that this disorder should be renamed " medical abuse " to highlight the real harm caused by the deception and to make it less likely that a perpetrator can use a psychiatric defense when real harm is done.

The OEO reflected a fragile consensus among policymakers that the best way to deal with poverty was not simply to raise the incomes of the poor but to help them better themselves through education, job training, and community development.

Opponents also state categorizing patients based on factors such as social value to the community or age will not work in a heterogeneous society without a common ethical consensus such as the U. S. Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute wrote government decision making would " override the differences in preferences and circumstances " for individuals and that it is a matter of personal liberty to be able to buy as much or as little care as one wants.

Dutch politics and governance are characterised by a common striving for broad consensus on important issues, within both the political community and society as a whole.

Sahelanthropus may represent a common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees ; no consensus has been reached yet by the scientific community.

The consensus in the physics community is that Dingle's objections to the logical consistency of special relativity were unfounded.

Critics were mostly positive about the film ; it has a 67 % " fresh " rating on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus " Provocative and audacious, Dogma entertains without overtly offending "; it fared much better with fans, ranking 84 % by the community.