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The culpable failure, especially when lives are at stake, is not to disagree with scientists, but to reject science as a method of inquiry.
All three call for an “objective” inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the “event,” but disagree on what would count as “objective.”
In his Instauratio Magna, Francis Bacon, one of modern science’s most articulate proponents, conveyed a vision of a new world, transformed through the systematic inquiry of natural phenomena.
That may sound weird, given that Hegel was an Idealist and would never have expected neuroscience – a material reality independent of Geist (usually translated as Mind or Spirit) – to be relevant to his inquiry.
At one point three years ago, she stood in tears on the steps of the Royal Courts of Justice, where judges had refused to protect her from the potentially high legal costs if she failed to compel the government to hold an inquiry.
And on January 21, Sir Robert Owen, chairman of the public inquiry, announced his verdict: It is “beyond doubt” that the FSB agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun carried out the assassination, which was “probably approved” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The inquiry found that the assassins failed twice before fulfilling their mission.
As for the role of the Russian state, that evidence came from MI6, the British secret service, and was presented in a closed session of the inquiry.
Not surprisingly, the Kremlin has lashed out at the White House for the accusations, just as it has at the UK government for the Litvinenko inquiry, whose findings, though “a joke,” would “poison” Britain’s relationship with Russia.
Yet there was no international inquiry, mainly because oil interests trumped moral outrage.
They began to engage in the systematic inquiry of how the natural world (and to a lesser extent, the social world) functioned.
For starters, it is clear that the EU needs its own comprehensive inquiry into Russian interference in European affairs, along the lines of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in the United States.
The development of more systematic approaches to scientific inquiry has not diminished the need for such intuitive reasoning.
A more fruitful question than an inquiry into America's motives is how the US will act once war comes.
But if the human rights movement refuses to enter this line of debate and inquiry with an open mind, it may begin to lose the support of honest public opinion, the very source from which it has drawn the moral and political energy to get as far as it has.
In response, the European Commission has launched an official inquiry into potential violations of the EU’s rule-of-law standards.
The acquisition of medals, precisely because it gives so much satisfaction, has become the object of scientific inquiry and national endeavor.
In Brazil, for example, figures involved in Operation Car Wash (an ongoing investigation into large-scale corruption at the state-owned oil company Petrobras) – such as Deltan Dallagnol, the lead prosecutor, and Sérgio Moro, the federal judge in charge of the inquiry – have become true political power brokers.
The official report of a congressional commission of inquiry, released in 1993, found that it was in fact the joint deposit insurance that had prompted the banks to take these gambles.
It, too, conducted an official inquiry, establishing the Macmillan Committee to hear evidence about how poorly British banks served British industry, and how the German model did a much better job at converting savings into industrial finance.
But advancement in ethical inquiry relies on the conflict of beliefs and values.
When I noted to DeWalt that self-strangulation was impossible, he said he would get back to me when the inquiry – now including a Naval criminal investigation – was completed.
India needs a detailed official inquiry into the various elements of disaster prediction, management, and relief, guided by the experience of Ockhi.
No less dubiously, Duterte claimed that the ICC’s investigation was yet another example of a “systematic assault by the United Nations” against his country; as “evidence,” he cited an ongoing inquiry launched by Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings.
Already, the EU has launched an official inquiry into potential violations of its rule-of-law standards.
A subsequent UN inquiry concluded that as few as 2,500 properly trained military personnel could have prevented the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis.
They want to reanimate the spirit of free inquiry that has been lost in Islamic culture and that urgently needs to be recovered.
But it is nonetheless important to recognize how much Muslim countries could contribute to humankind by nurturing once again the spirit of curiosity that drives scientific inquiry – whether to marvel at divine creation or just to try to understand why things are the way they are.
To an intellectual, an academic may look like someone who mistakes the means of inquiry for its end.
In Pennsylvania, a 1998 inquiry into a supermax prison notorious for racist guards revealed videotapes of routine beatings and elaborate rituals of humiliation.
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