Sentences with phrase «anecdotal cases of»

There have been many anecdotal cases of dramatic improvement when the owners feed their EPI dog a raw diet, especially when all else fails.

There have been reported anecdotal cases of severe reactions to anesthesia and even death in Picards.

There are many anecdotal cases of total life and health transformation on the Whole30 diet.

Nevertheless, when you take the anecdotal cases of Wheat Belly dieters losing weight and improving health at face value, it seems that for many people, at least some principles of the Wheat Belly diet are effective.

Not exact matches

Echoing decades of anecdotal evidence, a new study of about 2,000 cases of exoneration found that black people are extremely more likely to be wrongfully committed of a crime.

The human trials are limited — as is often the case with food research — but the anecdotal evidence of chia's positive health effects include boosting energy, stabilizing blood sugar, aiding digestion, and lowering cholesterol.

That's what everyone keeps saying and there's reams of anecdotal and empirical proof available to make their case.

There is not a shred of anecdotal evidence that his involvement in the BALCO case has weighed on Bonds.

The evidence in favor of bicycle helmets in general is mainly anecdotal, and there have been cases of children being strangled by the straps (when the straps are adjusted properly, a bike helmet is usually uncomfortable, especially for a child).

And because so much of it is personally skewed to the anecdotal — which means the stories are often played out in case - by - case scenarios — our personal experiences often seem trumped by the assumption that they are, in fact, universal.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

This is the first clinically documented case of a transgender woman breastfeeding, although the authors mention there are heaps of anecdotal accounts on the internet.

I think in many bottle feeding cases (all of us have anecdotal evidence), it's not for lack of trying.

«Most of what has been available to women has really been driven by fear: One anecdotal case gets into the news and really sensationalizes the risk of death.»

All the home secretary could come up with for the Joint Committee was 16 pages of anecdotal evidence, much of which actually made the case for targeted — not bulk — surveillance.

There are anecdotal stories of several similar cases.

(3) aside from a small handful of anecdotal edge cases, there's no evidence that minorities have trouble obtaining required IDs compared to anyone else (that MAY have been true in 1960s, but absolutely false in 2018).

«Most of what we know about doxing thus far has been anecdotal and based on a small number of high - profile cases,» said Snyder.

'' [W] e showed our data to a bunch of shark experts, and they had seen anecdotal evidence of shark and ray egg cases near hydrothermal vents,» Phillips said.

There is a great deal of anecdotal evidence and stories from people who have used camel dairy in cases of autism.

among several alarming anecdotal articles (which I know not to take seriously as they are individual cases) a couple of observational studies are being thrown around that imply vegetarians and vegans are more likely to have mental illness and too many people are taking them seriously as fact and I find it worrisome.

This species has a history of use in traditional Chinese medicine and although there have been anecdotal reports of benefits, there have been no clinical controlled studies to test the efficacy of this herb (herb, here referring to a general term that may be either a plant, root, mold, and in this case, a parasite.)

Though in some cases these anti-acne creams can be effective in treating acne, anecdotal reports claim that repeated use of these products can damage natural elastin of your skin.

The many brain benefits of plant foods have already been proven in numerous case studies and through plentiful anecdotal evidence.

Of course, every case is different and a single case is anecdotal.

Much of the anecdotal information is what he received from John Burris, the prosecuting attorney working on Oscar Grant's case, as well as Oscar's family, so, of course, Coogler is not only hearing one side of the story, but also has allegiances to those who helped him research this story to tell Oscar's tale in a manner respectful to their interests.

Certainly from our perspective, there are some concerning anecdotal stories that schools are struggling to identify the level of provision and the costs that will enable them to make a case for access to additional funds and the necessary provision required for the child or young person.

Case studies and anecdotal evidence of this «deficit model» in practice are abundant in educational literature, but there is considerable disagreement about what policy initiatives most effectively counteract these low - expectations.

This is of course anecdotal, but I've never had a case where a female client said, «What's the next hot stock pick?

But in this case, I'd say your anecdotal observation is correct: All else equal, announcements of layoffs tend to drive stock prices upwards.

Hopefully, as case is made for the potential value of diversification and long - term investment horizons in an attempt to overcome short - term swings and anecdotal observations.

While there had been numerous anecdotal reports of early spaying and neutering, these cases were generally uncontrolled from the scientific viewpoint.

You anecdotal example was one case out of 40,000.

Inevitably they will require people to change the way they do things (wouldn't need a new system if that wasn't the case), and my anecdotal experience is that — in UK at least — government employees are the most resistant to any change of any group I know of.

«But the lead author of the study... says that he is not convinced that it is just the changing climate... «It could be partly due to this chaotic rainfall, but personally I don't think it can explain such a dramatic decline in mosquitoes, to the extent we can say that the malaria mosquitoes are almost eradicated in these communities... «What we should consider is that there may be a disease among the mosquitoes, a fungi or a virus, or they're may have been some environmental changes in the communities that have resulted in a drop in the number of mosquitoes»... The research team also found anecdotal evidence that their discovery was not an isolated case... «Other scientists are saying they can't test their drugs because there are no children left with malaria.»»

«I emphasise this because a mass of informed, if anecdotal, opinion indicates that X's is not an isolated case and that there are far too many young women in similar predicaments.

Anecdotal reports from many prospective applicants indicate that legal aid eligibility ain't what it used to be and Legal Aid's stuttering re-introduction of block fees for many simple cases is reminiscent of a return to the system that bankrupted the plan years ago in the first place.

While anecdotal evidence is a far cry from reliable proof in a court case, my own experience (over a much more limited time span than the life of the Province of Alberta) and my discussions with colleagues, gives me great concern that the instances of repudiation have been dramatically understated.

In addition to providing an overview of new accident benefits arbitration process under the License Appeal Tribunal (LAT), which came into effect on April 1, 2016, Michelle will share valuable anecdotal discussion of what counsel have experienced so far on both sides, such as evidentiary and production issues at the case conference stage and before a hearing, what evidence adjudicators are looking for or emphasizing, the format of the hearing (written, oral, hybrid), witness issues, etc..

Aside from our own anecdotal observations (for example, many of us working in the legal industry know recent lawyers who didn't graduate from a top - 50 law school and still found good jobs), is there a credible case to be made that law school is still a good economic choice for college graduates?

In this anecdotal interview, Clive speaks about white collar crime, revealing insights into major cases that showcase how widespread the sector is and the effect of money laundering on Hong Kong's banks.

The vendor had, at the ready, beautiful case studies, testimonials, references, and most importantly, impressive proof — not just anecdotal evidence — from its customers that the ROI of the solution exceeded expectations.

Though this document is, as stressed by the USSC, «preliminary» and «anecdotal» and only includes cases through October, it is still an extremely important and interesting (partial) report on the post-Blakely state of federal sentencing.

The participants also swapped anecdotal tales of district judges refusing to budget cases where liability was admitted or delaying budgeting in the expectation of a settlement.

Citing anecdotal evidence of a 15 - year - old girl using a cellphone when she was struck, along with three other fatal cases of lightning striking cellphone talkers in China, South Korea and Malaysia, a spokesperson for the doctors stirred up fear of the almighty wrath of the lightning bolt:

While the NCLC report suggests inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread, the report only cites a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.

In the article, Rosen — Founder and CEO of background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- writes that while the NCLC report suggested «inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread,» the report only cited «a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.»

In the article, Rosen writes that while the NCLC report «suggests inaccurate criminal background checks are widespread,» the report only «cites a handful of anecdotal stories and some court cases where an inaccurate background check had grave consequences on a consumer's ability to get a job out of the millions of background checks conducted yearly.»

Both statistics and anecdotal evidence show that the vast majority of CL cases succeed in producing an out - of - court settlement.

While Justice Beaumont has commented that the three year disposition target for native title matters was aspirational rather than mandatory, [16] anecdotal evidence that the Federal Court is generally unwilling to adjourn native title cases suggests that these quantitative performance indicators in fact significantly adversely impact upon the management of native title cases for representative bodies.