Ground-Breaking? An Empirical Assessment of the Draft Business and Human Rights Treaty by Tori Loven Kirkebø, Malcolm Langford

“…Drawing on our work on the “commitment curve,” we begin theoretically and point out why one should hold modest expectations about the process and treat strong text with skepticism as much as celebration. Using an empirical methodology, we then compare the HRC's Revised Draft Legally Binding Instrument (Revised Draft LBI) with existing standards, and find that while the draft contains a healthy dose of incremental pragmatism, its significant advances require a degree of circumspection about its strengths and prospects.…”
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Understanding scientists' communication challenges at the intersection of climate and agriculture. by Jackie M Getson, Sarah P Church, Brennan G Radulski, Anders E Sjöstrand, Junyu Lu, Linda S Prokopy

“…In the United States, a public debate remains about the existence and effects of anthropogenic climate change. This skepticism is present in the agricultural sector, rendering climate science communication challenging. …”
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Artificial hair implantation for hair restoration by Aditya K. Gupta, Maanasa Venkataraman, Emma M. Quinlan

“…Conclusions Artificial hair implantation has been received with skepticism among physicians due to the complications reported. …”
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Perception of functional food consumption by adults: Is there any difference between generations? by Giovana Flores Safraid, Cristine Zanquetta Portes, Roseana Machado Dantas, Ângela Giovana Batista

“…However, there is some skepticism regarding the credibility of functional food claims. …”
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3D PRINTING IN PROSTHETICS, ORTHOTICS AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: MYTH AND REALITY by Silvia Ursula Raschke

“…The response from prosthetists was skepticism and concern, in particular warning that 3D printed components would not be robust enough to withstand the activities of daily living.  …”
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The Polish Round Table as a Blueprint for “Successful” Social Change? Some Thoughts on “Liberal Hindsight” in the Social Sciences by Anna Kende, Martijn van Zomeren

“…Neither hindsight, nor liberal bias are problematic per se, but they can evoke a form of wishful thinking that, as scientists, we may want to treat with some skepticism.…”
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“Building of Friendship” in Relations of Soviet Union and East Germany (1949—1989) by A. D. Popov

“…By the 1970s and 1980s, citizens of the two countries, especially young people, had not received a clear, realistic idea of the future joint development of their countries within the framework of the common project of socialist integration, which contributed to the growth of skepticism in this direction and, as a result, became one of the reasons for the collapse of the socialist bloc in the late 1980s.…”
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History and current state of parliamentary oversight in Iraq by Ammar Raad Ali Jihad

“…The phenomenon of Iraqi constitutionalism traditionally arouse skepticism among researchers. This is due not only to the historical difficulties faced by Iraqi constitutionalism, but also to the lack, according to researchers, of effective mechanisms for legal protection of the constitution. …”
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Lockdown! Learning public health of infectious diseases through gameplay by Evelyn Goh, Anna Szücs, Victor Weng Keong Loh, Yann Felix Boucher

“…During the pandemic, lockdowns, social distancing, and mask mandates introduced by governments were met with skepticism, doubt, and an unwillingness to comply, increasing the extent of negative outcomes as a result. …”
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Mulla Sadra and Hume on Comparative Analyzing of Causality by قدرت الله قربانی

“…Mulla Sadra’s philosophical, intellectual and illuminative thought in Islamic tradition, in comparison to Hume’s modern empirical and phenomenal tendencies, is able to remove fundamental ahead problems concerning causality and to answer skepticism derived from it. In Mulla Sadra’s Transcendent Wisdom, since the whole system of being has its plural hierarchical universes in which there are causal longitudinal relations. …”
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European Union’s integration issues after the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty. A Neo-Gramscian anaylsis (I) by Anca Mădălina BONCILĂ

“…Using the trade unions we have exemplified the inability of the EU to cope with social challenges, especially since there are forms of skepticism focused strictly on social discontent. The conclusions confirm that the Neo-Gramscian theory is the most suitable methodological support in an attempt to capture the nuances of EU’ s neo-liberal expressions.…”
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The (im-)moral scientist? Measurement and framing effects shape the association between scientists and immorality by Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Esther Niehoff, Steven J. Heine

“…Taken together, the findings have important academic ramifications for science skepticism, morality, and stereotyping research as well as valuable practical implications for successful science communication.…”
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Epistemological Strategies of Islamic Government in Institutionalizing Moral Values in International Relations with Emphasis on the Qur'an and Sunnah by enayat sharifi, mahmoud ramezani kordasiabi, abdolah abtollotlab

“…Increasing the knowledge and awareness of the people, promoting the culture of justice, endorsing religious teachings in the form of free acceptance, and seeking one’s rights are among the tendentious epistemological solutions, and confronting harmful ideas such as heresy, eclecticism, and skepticism are among the functional epistemological solutions of the Islamic government in institutionalizing ethics in international relations.…”
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Chromosomal instability and its effect on cell lines by Zichen He, Andrew Wilson, Fenella Rich, Diane Kenwright, Aaron Stevens, Yee Syuen Low, Michelle Thunders

“…However, there is considerable skepticism regarding the reproducibility of data derived from these in vitro models. …”
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The value of uncertainty: the Zika and Microcefalia link by Denise Silva Matias, Luis Cláudio Lemos Correia, Daniel Oliveira Medina da Silva, Larrie Rabelo Laporte, Camila Verônica Souza Freire, Gabriel de Araújo Grisi, Thiago Masashi Taniguchi, Mariana Correia Moreira Cruz

“…This article aims to describe the principles that should guide scientific thinking, such as the philosophy of skepticism, the consideration of multiple hypothesis, epidemiological criteria to demonstrate association, concern about random errors and the need to quantify the strength of association. …”
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Actualité de la pensée de Georges Millardet en linguistique et dialectologie romanes à travers sa contribution à la RLaR by Jean Léo Léonard

“…The author, siding with Maurice Grammont's skepticism vis-à-vis the linguistic geography of the Paris school, dominated by Jules Gilliéron, rehabilitates the Neogrammarian comparative method, opening up pioneering prospects towards modern phonology, by analyzing the structural or systemic independence of the dialectical areas in space and time. …”
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Mechanical vibration as an adjunct to clear aligner treatment for accelerating tooth movement: A review by Hannaneh Ghadirian, Samira Yazarloo, Soolmaz Heidari, Elahe Gholamrezayi

“…Two authors reviewed the titles and abstracts independently to select relevant studies and the full texts where there was some skepticism. Seven papers were included in this study following removing duplicates and irrelevant studies, four of which were randomized controlled trial and three were retrospective studies. …”
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Who Is the Founder of Psychophysics and Experimental Psychology? by Omar Khaleefa

“…According to historians of psychology, Francis Bacon had the most crucial influence in the history of the experimental method, because he emphasized the importance of induction, skepticism, quantification, and observation. The present study, however, attempts to show that Ibn al-Haytham laid the foundations of the above aspects of the experimental method. …”
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Religious Epistemology and Dialectic by Hajj Muhammad legenhausen

“…Rational reflection on the nature of experience that provides the solution to the problems of skepticism and solipsism in the Hegelian tradition, a tradition self-consciously developed by both Peirce and Hocking. …”
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Theology, Witness, and Spirituality in a Post-Secularized Historical Context by Evi Voulgaraki-Pissina

“…Nevertheless, there is some skepticism about such activism against the backdrop of plurality, human rights, and freedom, regarding not only issues of political correctness but also considering the question of efficacy. …”
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