Sentences with phrase «claims against the evidence»

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Adelaide for the next two weeks, working with academics to test politicians» claims against the evidence as South Australians prepare to vote on March 17.

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Stormy Daniels «attorney, Michael Avenatti, visited The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and revealed a major piece of evidence in his client's claim against President Trump.

The growing #MeToo movement and sexual harassment claims against business leaders as well as a growing body of evidence that diversity boosts success and returns have heightened scrutiny of all - male or male - heavy boards.

There is ample evidence for the existence of God, what you decide to do with this evidence is ultimately up to you, but do not claim that there is none... and I would submit to you that many people believe many things without evidence every single day... but do not lump all people of faith into one basket... I have personal proof that God exists, but proof for me may not be proof for you, some people can see something with their own eyes and still deny it, that is why I said it is ultimately up to you to decide what you believe... there is much evidence both for and against the existence of God, you need to decide which evidence you choose to believe...

You said, «But I do know you have no evidence AT ALL to support your claims against God or Christianity.

But the claims of religion which touch upon things which can be observed and tested in the real world can be proven true or untrue as the evidence for or against those things is discovered.

Given that much of it is private, most people here can rest assured in the knowledge that if her claims did not hold up against this evidence, these people would speak out publicly here and / or privately to Julie.

In the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan wonders if a string of failures for the Obama administration counts as mounting evidence not only against his primary claim to rule, executive competence, but also against the undergirding premises of liberal political philosophy.

Sadly, these initiatives are fought tooth and nail by anti-gay groups (sadly pretty much all of which identify as Christian) who want to claim (against all evidence) that being gay makes you more likely to commit suicide not anything that you suffer as a result of being gay, just some arbitrary offense against God thing.

I would add... the battle against ones personal sin (s) is probably an evidence that the person who claims Christ as Lord is a Believer.

They do not continue to believe something when the evidence argues against their claim.

The Turkish government has not provided documentation to reveal the source of the claim, evidence against him, or even to which organization he allegedly belongs.

There isn't, David argues, any evidence for the governor's claims about the benefits of gambling, and the governor himself presents none, and a great deal of evidence against it.

... and this is why this country is so backwards and falling behind the rest of the post-industrial countries... and why is it that these... nuts... will use rules of evidence and «science» to back claims of biblical proof... but reject the same critria when it is used against them?

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Townsville during the Queensland election campaign, keeping track of politicians» claims and working with academics to test them against the evidence.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

You can argue against it, but you certainly can't claim that obstetricians said that scientific evidence showed that mothers and babies should be separated.

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.

I have only touched on the tip of the existing evidence against the health claims of the milk industry promoters.

The AAP concurs with the US Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission that manufacturers should not claim that a product or device protects against SIDS unless there is scientific evidence to that effect.

«From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings to that against the CEO of BOST, to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption,» he noted with pride.

From the allegations against the Minister for Energy - designate at his parliamentary confirmation hearings; to that against the CEO of BOST; to those against the two deputy Chiefs of Staff; to the claims of extortion against the Trade Minister; and to those against the Minister for Special Development Initiatives; they have all been investigated and no evidence has been adduced to suggest mildly the perpetration of any act of corruption.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against the Rensselaer County district attorney on Wednesday, claiming Joel Abelove «flagrantly violated» an executive order last week when Abelove's office presented evidence in a fatal police shooting to a grand jury.

The Reform Party of the United States calls on President Trump and his administration to release the evidence of these claims, so that proper charges can be brought against the perpetrators.

He told the Senate that he would produce «overwhelming evidence» to back his claims against Lamorde.

Lawyers believe the Home Office is desperate for none of their claims to be tested in court because the evidence against the students would not be strong enough.

Kellner claims because he was granted «due process», by a Silver appointed judge, in an appeal of the first sanctions, and was granted the right to see the evidence against him, the new charges and sanctions were made out of spite.

Over several months, many Assembly members, including Republican James Tedisco of upstate Glenville, Kolb's predecessor as minority leader, have told The Post that they're convinced Silver has directly or indirectly blackmailed Kolb into silence because he possesses some evidence or allegation of improper conduct against him — a claim Kolb's spokesman strongly denied.

Collins backers are taking heart in the fact that nowhere in the 29 - page Office of Congressional Ethics report is there any claim or any evidence that he wrote legislation on behalf of Innate Immunotherapeutics — the most explosive charge leveled against him by Rep. Louise Slaughter.

The group stated that, they had water tight evidence to support their claim of a meeting held last week in Kumasi at the instance of Akufo - Addo, where Nana Akufo - Addo is said to have deployed Kofi Jumah, Amoako Tufuor and others to form mushroom groups with what the group described as «wicked purposes» in springing forth «outright lies» and «concoction of untruths» that will translate into setting the stage to blame innocent people in the Kufuor faction against the outcome of the 2016 elections.

The independent peer claimed the idea criminals would stop using phones to coordinate plans if they knew evidence could be used against them was «farcical», adding there are ways to prevent the police disclosing all their intelligence sources.

New Jersey prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against the son of a former top de Blasio administration aide over botched evidence that backs up his self - defense claim, lawyers said Thursday...

«If you are asking if I saw any evidence that David Cameron was prepared to grapple with this — none,» said Clegg, claiming he came up against the same lack of interest from the chancellor, George Osborne.

Akufo - Addo's action corroborated a statement he made during the NPP's 25th annual delegates conference in the Central Region last Saturday, when he said, his government will take allegations of corruption against its officials seriously, and expects that persons who make such allegations present evidence to back their claims.

Senior officials at the ICC yesterday claimed that leading members of Colonel Gaddafi's regime had come forward to offer evidence against the leader and his loyalists.

Scotland Yard said officers have looked into whether there are witnesses who would speak to police and are now investigating if there is corroborating evidence to back up claims against the peer.

A photograph of the road block that circulated during the meeting and statements from Police Chief Michael Sullivan and the Nanuet Fire Department against the road block added evidence to Moroney's claims.

The judge said that the claim by the applicant that the order was made in perpetuity had no bearing as there was no evidence that the EFCC has either concluded its investigation of the matter or filed any charge against the applicant.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

Although the case never went to trial because of Ivins's suicide on 29 July 2008, FBI officials have claimed that the evidence against him is indisputable and that he carried out the mailings using anthrax stolen from a flask at USAMRIID.

Hawes says this evidence will help Zachary Ruffing and her other clients in their claims against IBM because many of the solvents to which the women in the study were exposed are commonplace in semiconductor plants.

The other story from last year flagged by Science Committee leaders claimed that IARC omitted evidence that went against its conclusion that glyphosate likely causes cancer in humans and edited a draft review significantly before it was released to the public (Greenwire, 20 October, 2017).

Last year 70 cognitive researchers signed a statement speaking out against computer - based games that promise better cognitive performance, citing a lack of scientific evidence to back such claims.

Their default skeptical stance is a prophylactic against the wiles of wishful thinking, a dare to true believers to provide extraordinary evidence in support of extraordinary claims.

CLAIMS by the medical journal BMJ that there is insufficient evidence to justify the stockpiling of Tamiflu as a defence against pandemic flu have themselves been questioned.

This based on some of the absolute worst pseduo science I've read where they claim that testosterone binds to mercury in the brain (it's always mercury with them, despite the mountain of evidence against the theory).

However, there's mounting evidence against this claim.

The Federal Trade Commission has filed complaints against online sellers who made health claims for natural progesterone creams without supporting evidence.»

«The 1999 FDA - approved health claim pleased big business, despite massive evidence showing risks associated with soy, and against the protest of the FDA's own top scientists.