Sentences with phrase «critics say the study»

Yet critics say the study was too flawed to fairly compare them.

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faithlessinfatima said, on April 22nd, 2009 at 9:02 pm That's cute Fishon, but you'll never really know if those you call «critics» have something to important to add to the world of biblical studies unless you read and investigate their material, that is, get in the car and drive it and try to get a feel for what the other guys are saying....

That's cute Fishon, but you'll never really know if those you call «critics» have something to important to add to the world of biblical studies unless you read and investigate their material, that is, get in the car and drive it and try to get a feel for what the other guys are saying....

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

In a statement in 2008, the FDA said BPA was safe in materials that come into contact with food, to which critics accused the agency of using outdated studies that had been sponsored by the chemical industry, so this new cautionary statement is a huge step in direction of consumer safety over corporate pressure.

The study has its share of critics, who say the experiment is «patronizing» and «loathsome.»

But critics argue that the study has not been peer reviewed or published in a scientific journal, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that food coming in contact with the chemical is safe, even in baby feeding bottles.

Critics say the state Education Department's failure to provide study materials in a timely manner for new, more rigorous certification tests doomed many new teaching candidates.

The Bloomberg adminsitration said it would not consider a widespread living wage policy until the study was completed — a move some critics say is meant to stall the legislation at the City Council.

In addition to determining her sex, however, the study went a step further — and a step too far, say critics, who spoke out via online forums and social media, often anonymously.

«We have no evidence that [acupuncture] is anything more than theatrical placebo,» says Harriet Hall, a retired family physician and U.S. Air Force flight surgeon who has studied, and long been a critic of, alternative medicine.

«There are no new data presented here on complications or hospitalizations that we did not already know of,» says epidemiologist Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, a critic of Roche and part of the Cochrane group that reviewed Tamiflu studies.

Critics, however, say that the study's leaders asked the wrong questions when evaluating the program's success.

Critics, many of them well - funded investigators or leaders at powerhouse research institutions, have questioned NIH's study and its use of the RCR — a relatively new measure they say might not adequately capture a scientist's contributions.

Apart from patient testimonials and a few preliminary studies in tumor cell lines and in mice, critics say, there is no evidence of the safety or efficacy of the compound, popularly known as the «cancer pill» or «fosfo.»

Critics have pounced on the study, which they say has serious statistical and other problems.

Trachilos study co-author Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Sweden's Uppsala University, says critics have accused the team of trying to revive a long - debunked idea that our species evolved in Europe.

As one measure of the uncertainties, the review's arch critic, Yale University economist Robert Mendelsohn, now says it will be more like tens of billions of dollars in a study that the World Bank has been dithering about publishing.

That lack of openness prevents the larger scientific community from studying the way influenza viruses spread and accrue dangerous mutations, critics say.

Critics of gun control laws think the matter is clear: Again and again studies show that gun control policies just don't work, says economist John Lott, who has written extensively on the subject.

Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University, who helped develop inflationary theory but is now a scathing critic of it, says that while the new study may be a blow for the theory, it pales in significance compared with inflation's other problems.

Critics say the conclusions are overstated The current study measures disease incidence over the globe using two maps of malaria.

said Stanford University in Palo Alto, California's David Relman, a critic of GOF studies.

«Movie critics can be overconfident in spotting important works, and they have bias,» said Luís Amaral, the leader of the study and co-director the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems.

Critics shrug off most research with the comment that lab studies say nothing about repression of real - life trauma.

Critics have said it might not make sense for very small studies or some involving local communities.

Scientists denounced the Republican - controlled U.S. House of Representatives» NASA budget proposal that would take money away from Earth studies, including those of climate change, and funnel it toward space exploration, a move critics say could hinder the space agency's ability to better understand global - warming trends.

But the study results prove those critics wrong, he said.

When one Austrian study found that people enjoy outdoor workouts more, psychologist Elizabeth Lombardo, psychotherapist and author of Better Than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love, said this finding was probably related to the fact that people in the study worked out with others.

While the study can't prove that one is related to the other, the findings would seem to support what critics have long said: Smoking by glamorous (or even not - so - glamorous) people on the silver screen is like free advertising for cigarettes.

Now most critics of this example will say that it must be related to superior genetics... however this is false, as when they studied tribesman who had moved out of their native lands and started eating more modern day diets, their blood chemistry skyrocketed with heart disease risk factors.

There were many critics of the study, who say that the study shouldn't be used as evidence that echinacea doesn't work.

And early this month a study of 10,000 teachers by the nonprofit TNTP said that teacher workshops and training that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year is largely a waste (although some critics took issue with the methodology of the study).

Steiner's study looked primarily at the syllabi of elite preparation programs, said by critics to be atypical of standard practice.

But critics said nothing could be learned from a study with such a high rate of attrition.

Critics say the use of 2017 - 18 as a baseline is unfair on schools that have already made efforts to increase numbers studying maths beyond GCSE in recent years, which won't benefit from the extra cash.

-- Testing critic Bob Schaeffer of FairTest said the administration didn't go far enough: «Now, is the time for concrete steps to reverse counter-productive testing policies, not just more hollow rhetoric and creation of yet another study commission,» he said.

One critic of using student test scores to rate teachers said the study was «interesting» but not persuasive.

In the second study, the Associated Press says charter schools are among the nation's most segregated — «an outcome at odds, critics say, with their goal of offering a better alternative to failing traditional public schools.»

«I was writing, thinking, playing tennis and carrying on,» she said in an interview with critic Bruce Hainley, who last year published a study of her work that sheds light on, among other things, her largely unknown early work in performance.

Smith's critics say he misrepresents facts, cleverly casts doubt on legitimate studies by claiming they are based on «secret data» and uses his subpoena power to help industry battle state and federal regulators and environmental groups.

As a result, «critics are no longer being interviewed,» the study said.

Rooftop solar costs significantly more than utility - scale solar, according to a new study that's stoking debate throughout the energy community, but critics say that price isn't everything.

Critics say the e-mails show a conspiracy to shape climate data and to quash results and studies questioning global warming.

Ignoring its own scientific study, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that dumping debris from coal mining into mountain streams doesn't conflict with the Clean Water Act — a reversal that clears the way for a new Bush administration rule that critics call a gift to mining interests.

As a result, critics say APS operates on the assumption there is really a cost shift $ 67 per month for each rooftop solar arrays, despite many studies showing solar provides more benefits than costs to a utility's system.

Critics feared that emissions trading schemes would lead to the export of pollution to areas where the poor and minority communities lived but a new study says that's not the case, although poor education may be a better indicator of living with pollution.

Critics of the report have attacked its conclusion saying that the study was biased, the study's process is flawed, and they maintained that the CIA's interrogation techniques were effective and did in fact lead to intelligence that proved important to the CIA and thwarting terrorist activities.

Critics of the study — such as Ted Frank at PointofLaw.com — say the study's greatest failing is that it does not account for the tort system's indirect costs, «which by far outweigh the direct costs.»

«That's certainly a positive,» said Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, who is a longtime critic of Fannie and Freddie.