Sentences with phrase «by false evidence»

People who have been convinced of something by false evidence, if they have held that belief for a long time, rarely become unconvinced of it if the evidence is later shown to be false.

Not exact matches

Pollock, whose documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.

From the evidence that has been published by The Guardian and The Observer this weekend, it seems clear that he has deliberately mislead the Committee and Parliament by giving false statements,» Collins wrote in a statement to the press.

Unfortunately, that signal is not corroborated by other evidence, which makes us suspect that this «oversold» condition will be cleared by sideways action or a fast, furious, and false rally - rather than a sustainable advance.

When church leaders sought to correct such false accusations by bringing evidence before the people, they were usually thrown into prison or hunted down as traitors to their country.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Merriam - Webster's online dictionary defines «delusion» as follows: «Something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also, the abnormal state marked by such beliefs.»

Responses to the global HIV / AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions.

That means in every case where the validity of such a claim was established by objective evidence it was determined to be false.

Full Definition of DELUSION 1: the act of deluding: the state of being deluded 2 a: something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated b: a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also: the abnormal state marked by such beliefs

SPUC director of campaigns Antonia Tully said: «Manchester City Council is repeating the false and evidence - free claims made by Ealing Council that «harassment and intimidation» are taking place at peaceful pro-life vigils.

How sad that you deny real evidence for a 2000 year old book that has never been updated and can be proven to be false on numerous things... a book written by primitive man to fool the gullible out of money and make them live in fear.

I agree — at least Robert Brown doesn't attempt to defend his faith by proffering false «evidence.»

No need to take my word, warning comes before destruction and it Jesus Christ who shall give you the very evidence that you refused to accept while being alive and by then, it will be too late for the unbeliever and the religious people who has taught false doctrines.

Angered by the new evidence - based scientific view, a handful of disgruntled therapists created a new organization to argue that hom0s3xuality was a choice and create the false impression that the issue remained up for debate.

a false standard requiring excess evidence is demanded by those too frightened to see for themselves

As shown by the New York Times» own evidence, published for all to see on their website at the beginning of their well planned assault this Easter, the claim concerning what the «Pope -LSB-...] allowed» is false on two counts:

Jesus and the message of the gospel were not against other religions, but against false religion as evidenced by insincerity and hypocrisy in relation to one's God and one's neighbour.

The other interesting aspects of this article are the possible anecdotal evidence for one of the benefits of free birth over a birth with an unskilled midwife, possible resulting in a false sense of security - she realised something was wrong and went to hospital - and also the description of the birth - the first twin's head essentially becoming trapped by the second twin - which seems to match something Attitude Devant raised as a possible complication of first twin breech, in one of the Lisa Barrett threads.

In other words, in the wake of evidence that their fundamental beliefs were false, cult members responded by ignoring the evidence and attempting to explain how the fact that their beliefs were shown to be false, actually proved them to be true!

It is a rant, and nothing more, as evidence by the wildly false claim the author made as to the supposed lack of evidence supporting the claims she is railing against.

Research has shown that more and more people feel that infant formula is equivalent to human milk, based on manufacturer claims that are false, misleading, and not supported by the evidence.

Commentators have focused on the «# 350 million per week» message delivered by Vote Leave, as evidence that the referendum was held under false pretences.

Responding further to questions posed by Karim Naatogmah about his ban, Dr. Bilal said «the ban on me in the USA came about in the 90s and it was based on a false accusation which had no evidence to support it.»

Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.

Abuja court has granted bail to a 50 - year - old man, Ahmed Echodo, who was accused of providing false evidence leading to the search of a residence of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, by the police.

One piece of that false evidence was the handwritten letter drafted by Senator Huntley that was falsified to make it appear as if Parent Workshop had conducted workshops when, in fact, it did not.

The indictment also charges that Savage and defendant David R. Gantt conspired with Huntley to create and submit false evidence, in response to a subpoena issued to Parent Workshop by the Attorney General's Office.

But the former Labour Europe minister Caroline Flint led calls today for a rethink, saying the latest review by Baroness Stern had found no evidence that «incidents of false allegations was higher in rape cases than any other crime».

One study that predicted shortages, written by Richard Atkinson and published in Science in 1990, has been repudiated, and is often passed around by postdocs to demonstrate this phenomenon of false prediction — and, some argue, the cynicism of those who continue to call for expansion despite evidence that today's scientists are widely underemployed.

«One: those who «pass» may think that they are without evidence of eye disease though they may be «false negative» and might delay in seeking care with the development of symptoms, thinking that they had already had an eye exam, and, two, those under the care of an eye doctor may perceive a different situation than their doctor has described,» Lee said by email.

It is clear, however, that evidence of an excess of amino acid substitutions (at least from site - by - site tests) is no longer a sufficiently convincing demonstration of selection, not only because a high ratio could result from selection on synonymous mutations rather than positive selection on proteins [5], but also because there is potentially a high false discovery rate of selected sites [6].

In fact, there is evidence that they may even contribute to injuries, by making people who wear them feel a false sense of security.

Because overwhelming scientific evidence clearly indicates that their conclusions are false, we had their study reviewed by scientific professionals who critique the design of the experiment and the conclusions reached.

Is it possible a doctor with a medical license maybe wants their patients to get evidenced - based treatment, and discourage the use of things that could be harmful by sheer lack of proven effectiveness alone, instead of being sold over-priced, false promises that prey on people desperate for help who often can't afford the cost, but pay it out - of - pocket anyway?

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Research recently released by Jesse Rothstein evidences that the claims Chetty made during Vergara were actually false, because Chetty (and his study colleagues) improperly masked the bias underlying their main causal assertion, again, that «bad teachers «substantially undermine a child's education.»

The teacher merit pay and charter school movements are being driven by false claims, clearly refuted by the weight of evidence.

Paul Thomas stated: «The teacher merit pay and charter school movements are being driven by false claims, clearly refuted by the weight of evidence.»

Echoing arguments made last month in the pages of the Hill by Schott Foundation President John Jackson, Judith Browne Dianis of the Advancement Project and wishy - washy education professor Pedro Noguera, Journey for Justice declares with no evidence that testing and accountability has somehow harmed poor and minority kids as well as supposedly «narrowed curriculum» (an argument that has been proven false by research from the likes of the U.S. Department of Education and Quadrant Arts Education Research's Robert Morrison).

Damned by lies and false «evidence,» she is trapped with no place to run.

There is evidence that she will benefit by having the ovaries and uterus removed because it can reduce her chances of masking her tumors with a false pregnancy and eliminates the risk of ovarian and uterine tumors.

You have five exclamation marks in the top right of the screen, using one raises an objection, wherein you cross examine the witness by attempting to prove their story false using evidence you've found at the crime screen.

Michaelangelo Antonioni reappraised the process through his minimalist long shots depicting bodies passing in and out of the cinematic frame; while Akira Kurosawa's film Rushamon portrayed multiple viewpoints of several false witnesses who recount their perceptions of a crime, thus showing how evidence is constructed version by version rather than something chiseled in stone, or known by all.

«The evidence was so complete and detailed, with such good names attached to it, that it was difficult to believe that it was false; but, being by nature of a somewhat sceptical turn, I felt that something closer was needed before I could feel personal conviction....

But, suffice it to say, ignoring new information and upholding beliefs that have been demonstrated by emerging evidence to be false is a disservice to the idea of «news» and «newspapers.»

History shows that is also inevitable when enough people gather increasing evidence over long periods of time, that established ideas that are false always succumb to the weight of increasing evidence, and that they are held by an increasingly smaller percentage of the active scientists in the discipline as the evidence grows.

Officials from the climate panel said the articles» claims either were false or reflected minor errors like faulty citations that in no way diluted the evidence that climate change is real and caused by human activity.

This cosmic ray hypothesis had already been debunked before 2013: and in addition, since 2013 there has been more evidence (from cloud - chamber experiments by CERN scientists) showing that this cosmic ray hypothesis is false.

By the evidence, this representation is repeatedly and consistently false.