Sentences with phrase «controversial study found»

How a Controversial Study Found that Police Are More Likely to Shoot Whites, Not Blacks Washington Post, 7/13/16» «At the end of the day, biases... will still be possible,» [Roland] Fryer said.

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The Pentagon's long - awaited study on its policy against gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military found that repeal of the controversial policy would face resistance from some service members on religious grounds, but that repeal would not require anyone to change their personal views or religious beliefs.

The practice of ultrasound during pregnancy is highly controversial with authorities acknowledging that there are clear hazards as found in animal and cell studies.

Although the use of corporal punishment in children has been controversial, evidence continues to emerge highlighting the negative developmental impact of this form of discipline in children.21, 29 Moreover, this finding is particularly concerning given that children were only 1 year of age in our study, a developmental stage when children are unlikely to understand the connection between their behavior and subsequent punishment and when spanking is more likely to cause physical injury.30

Breast Is Best But Soy Milk Has Benefits Too, Say Docs (Medical Tribune)- Hot on the heels of a German study that found breastfed babies were less likely than formula - fed ones to become obese, controversial new information suggests that soy formula may provide other health benefits that breastfeeding does not.

The grassroots survey, which is not sanctioned by a government agency, was announced Tuesday at the New York state Capitol, where Health Department officials in June released the results of a controversial study they said found no evidence of increased cancer rates in Hoosick Falls.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

In the wake of an EPA study that found no evidence fracking has had a «widespread, systematic impact on drinking water,» supporters of the controversial drilling practice are calling on the Cuomo administration to scrap its plans for a ban.

These results followed the release of a controversial cancer study by the state, which found no increased rate of cancer among the Rensselaer County village's 3,400 residents.

Those scientists remain anonymous, fearing career reprisals, but the allegations are serious: watered - down findings, retracted studies, indefinite delays in receiving agency approvals to publish controversial papers.

That study, however, was controversial because industry consultants intervened and republished the findings, making the science debatable.

Either you find that your new data conflict wildly with published studies, or, if you work in an emerging and controversial field, you hold out hope that your findings may be real.

Several studies have used cell - surface markers — proteins found on the outer membranes of tumor cells — to identify glioblastoma stem cells; but the specific markers used have been controversial and can not reflect molecular processes going on within tumor cells.

But the pesticides have been controversial, because a number of studies have found that they can hurt pollinators as well as pests.

This is just one in a long line of studies that disagree with rather controversial findings published in 2015 in the Journal of Glaciology, which suggested that Antarctica is gaining mass.

Amid occasional controversial claims that cloned babies are well on their way to birth, researchers have published a study showing that in cloned mice, defects can be found throughout the genome.

That's the conclusion of a 5 - year study, which found that when news organizations ran a number of stories on controversial topics like water quality and climate change in close succession, they significantly boosted public conversations about these topics — and even changed some people's minds.

Findings from the study support a controversial theory proposed in the 1940s that the emergence of new body shapes in groups of species could result in a surge in their evolution.

Jumping into the fray of a controversial topic, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released a report this afternoon on how to handle incidental findings, discoveries about an individual's DNA and other health - related information that show up while hunting for something else.

Sex differences were found in several studies with controversial results, regarding the risk of T2DM for subjects born with low birth weight (LBW) or high birth weight.

Even when he knew that his allegations had been proven baseless, he was found promoting them from a controversial business in Austin, Texas, called Thoughtful House, where - after being fired from the Royal Free in October 2001, following his refusal to repeat the Lancet study with a larger number of children - he held a $ 280,000 - a-year post, spun from his campaign.

Eat less saturated fat The question of whether dietary fat plays a role in breast cancer has proven controversial; some studies have found a link, while others haven't.

Many other studies have also found a link between alcohol intake and abdominal fat, but this too has been controversial.

Note: while saturated fats have been tarred and feathered with the «bad fat» brush, several recent studies seem to suggest that this isn't true — a highly controversial finding in the dietary world.

The area of bone health benefits from soy has remained nearly as controversial as the anti-cancer area due to the large amount of mixed evidence found in human studies on soy and bone health.

In response to this controversial study, the American Journal of Epidemiology published research in March contradicting Flegal's findings.

The first season set the scene — St. Louis in the 1950s, a prestigious teaching hospital, a leading gynecologist pursuing research that is controversial at best in the conservative culture with a partner who has no acknowledged credentials but shows a keen interest in and understanding of the topic and a way with putting the human subjects as ease — and introduced the complexity of the study, which was condemned when the initial findings were presented.

Wartime stars Paul Reubens, in sickly make - up, the swell Allison Janney, a dour - looking Ally Sheedy, and Little Boston's Paul Dano, and finds Solondz revisiting and reimagining several characters from his controversial pedophile study Happiness, in addition to ones from Dollhouse.

In a controversial study released late last month, researchers found that seven popular fruits and vegetables had toxicity levels up to hundreds of times higher than other foods.

The findings, which corroborate those of a controversial study by a West Virginia - based advocacy group, cast doubt on whether nationally normed tests provide useful information, according to Mark D. Musick, vice president of the sreb

A new study finds that using observational ratings of beginning teachers may be a viable alternative — or a useful complement — to relying solely on controversial «value - added» modeling (VAM) in evaluation of educator preparation providers (EPPs).

A new study by researchers at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education found that a controversial teacher evaluation system introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools has been a success.

As the lead researchers on some of the most comprehensive (and controversial) national studies of charter schools, she and her colleagues have found that while charter schools seem to be doing slightly better than traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math, great variation exists within these results (CREDO, 2013).

In fact, one study found that scores really went up about 8 percent over those seven years and Duncan's controversial strategy of closing low - performing schools and handing the students over to charter school companies and other private sector vendors, «did little good for students.»

One controversial finding was that cat lovers in the study were found to be intelligent compared to dog lovers.

A new study from the EU has found that the widespread use of a controversial pesticide on crops is harmful to the bee population.

This study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) for Friends of the Earth Europe finds that Europe's drivers are being forced to fill their tanks with increasing amounts of palm oil, with reliance on the controversial biofuel set to rise even further.

2012 Controversial «attribution» studies find recent disastrous heat waves, droughts, extremes of precipitation, and floods were made worse by global warming.

Noting that warnings of «collapse» are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that «the process of rise - and - collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.»

In a controversial 2014 study, Facebook used machine learning to classify social media posts based on their emotional content and found that positive and negative posts are contagious and allow emotions to essentially spread through social media.

Yet a recent study, cited in the controversial New York Times article, «The Egalitarian - Marriage Conundrum,» found that the more men did these traditionally feminine tasks, the less sexually attractive their wives found them

This conclusion is highly controversial because in subsequent studies there has been both replication of the original findings, and failure to replicate in other studies.