There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

The bill doesn't make provision for checks and balances of the council.

Part of what a union provides is what I would call checks and balances.