Sentences with phrase «accumulated evidence makes»

If I take your meaning correctly, the groundhog routine is nonsense because accumulated evidence makes it easy to reject the notion that rodent shadows are predictive of spring.

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As Christopher Norris has beautifully documented, the positivist fairy - tale of open - minded scientists accumulating measurable evidence, making conjectures based on that evidence, and then seeking to refute those conjectures does not well describe the actual way that scientists operate.

These charges were made about one year after the Metropolitan Police Service reopened its dormant investigation into phone hacking, [259] about three years after the then Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee that «no additional evidence has come to light,» [56] five years after News International executives began claiming that phone hacking was the work of a single «rogue reporter,» [260] ten years after The Guardian began reporting that the Met had evidence of widespread illegal acquisition of confidential information, [261] and 13 years after the Met began accumulating «boxloads» of that evidence but kept it unexamined in bin bags at Scotland Yard.

Previous studies have shown that when we have to make a decision based on visual input, assemblies of neurons start accumulating visual evidence in favour of the various possible outcomes.

But researchers in the US and Britain are accumulating evidence that T cells that have been made tolerant to cat dander release different chemical messengers.

In that sense, the researchers added, mouse decision - making resembles the human act of accumulating and weighing all the evidence before making a choice.

There is an accumulating body of clinical evidence demonstrating that the combination of ingredients used to make high fructose corn syrup do not work naturally within human physiology.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Despite his evident lack of skill to evaluate the multiple lines of evidence accumulated by 2 centuries of climate science, DDS has made it clear he believes the lopsided consensus of working climate scientists is «alarmist».

Natural variability is now widely accepted as making a significant contribution and our argument for a lowered climate sensitivity — which would indicate that existing climate models are not reliable tools for projecting future climate trends — is buoyed by accumulating evidence and is gaining support in the broader climate research community.

This leaves around 3 or 4 billion tonnes that are somehow being absorbed by the oceans, the land biosphere, or both.One possibility is that most of the man - made CO2 which does not accumulate in the atmosphere is being absorbed by the oceans... This view is supported by indirect evidence derived from the atmospheric nuclear bomb tests of the 1950s and 1960s.

I suppose it's possible to declare «I don't have empirical evidence [and thus is not science], but the evidence I've accumulated over my lifetime makes me «feel» that there is [or not] a deity.»

Just as the accumulating scientific evidence makes plainer every day that Global Warming is taking place and that anthropogenic emissions are the lead driver, accumulating socio - economic and political evidence makes plainer every day that the Carbon Tax should be the lead driver along the road to climate stability.

Empirical evidence continues to accumulate that a warming climate will save lives by making cold weather seasons less cold and thus less dangerous to health.

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

Part of our «Looking Forward» series, this policy memo makes the case for building on this accumulating evidence to create new and innovative approaches to support children's earliest years and the unique role of fathers.

Based on the long - standing theoretical endorsement of these parenting dimensions, on accumulated partial evidence from a history of investigating their associations with elements of child and adolescent functioning, and on the several forms of validation pursued in this Monograph, suggestions were made as to what the evidence might imply as to the broader relevance of the findings.

If you are already experiencing symptoms of depression then accumulating clutter will only make those symptoms get worse, and there is lots of solid evidence to suggest that keeping clutter around will adversely affect your physical, emotional and spiritual health.