Sentences with phrase «despite lack of evidence»

Sites like OKCupid dump significant resources into figuring out better and better ways to match people, despite a lack of evidence online compatibility leads to offline chemistry.

Australian academic Desmond Manderson responded to the report for The Conversation with a fascinating examination of the «illegality» of drugs, and why it continues despite the lack of evidence, encompassing ideas about racism, social anxieties, faith and fear.

Despite a lack of evidence, large firms presume that candidates who go to an elite school make a better lawyer; Bill Henderson explains how elite credentials were repriced when firms experienced a downward pressure on fees.

Despite the lack of evidence confirming the wine's authenticity, Mr. Koch purchased a single bottle of the wine in November of 1988 for $ 100,000.

In November 2015, the majority of the committee found that, despite a lack of evidence on the balance of probabilities, Girouard should be removed from the bench because his implausible testimony suggested a deception.

Yet despite the lack of any evidence of unusually extreme weather and the lack of reliable data, Easterlng and Parmesan's paper ironically marked the beginning of an era in which every weather event would soon be translated into «unprecedented extremes» caused by CO2 climate change, and again Parmesan's butterfly effect was again instrumental in promoting biological doom.

Even if Marcott et al really believed that to be true, despite the lack of any evidence, how far does one have to fall from grace to sink to such gamesmanship that integrity and truth are acceptable casualties?

Detractors of post-normal science, conversely, see it as a method of trying to argue for a given set of actions despite a lack of evidence for them, and as a method of trying to stifle opposing voices calling for caution by accusing them of hidden biases.

Despite the lack of evidence, some unreliable sources claim sprinkling salt on carpets will kill fleas.

April becomes the vacuous party girl, convinced of her own superiority despite the lack of evidence to support that claim.

That's when it gets annoying, because you find yourself constantly trying to convince people that you ARE writing, despite the lack of evidence.

Despite the lack of any evidence that comics caused any harm to minors, by 1949 more than 50 cities and towns had banned the sale of comic books through laws or censorship committees.

Third, despite the lack of evidence that state testing requirements improve outcomes or ensure quality (as they largely acknowledge in an earlier report, «The Proficiency Illusion»), Mike Petrilli continues to push for them because... well, because we've got to do something:

Test scores are being used with increasing frequency to rate teachers, deny students promotion from one grade to another, and justify closing «low - performing» schools,» despite a lack of evidence that such strategies have any educational value.

Despite the lack of evidence, schools in DC and elsewhere are rapidly embracing these innovations.

One noteworthy requirement is that all pre-K teachers have bachelor's degrees, despite a lack of evidence that the credential makes preschool teachers better at their jobs.

The plot follows the real - life story of the West Memphis Three: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, who were sent to prison despite a lack of evidence for the murder of three eight - year - old boys.

However, it is in the interest of the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing such drugs to perpetuate the idea that anti-depressant medications are «restoring» the natural chemical balance in the brain, despite lack of evidence that this is the case.

Despite the lack of evidence, the story was too good to pass up.

Despite the lack of evidence, belief in the benefits of vitamin D supplementation remains strong.

«Despite a lack of evidence, experts continue to recommend high - protein intake for older men.

The assumption that an ambiguous stimulus contains a reward despite the lack of evidence is called an optimism bias.

Meanwhile, despite the lack of evidence that higher education leads to greater entrepreneurship, the government is sticking to its goal of sending 50 % of young people to university.

Moves to ostracise e-cigarettes are mounting despite a lack of evidence that they cause any harm, says Amanda Marcotte

He nonetheless firmly believed that the eye did evolve in that way, despite a lack of evidence for intermediate forms at the time.

Partly because of a marketing push, prostate cancer patients have flocked to proton therapy despite the lack of evidence that it's better than less expensive treatment.

Despite the lack of evidence supporting the charge, the Russian government has convicted Dr. Sutyagin, and he has now spent more than four years in jail.

Despite the lack of evidence that such issues have arisen anywhere, the charge has been an emotional rallying cry on the right.

Bill Hammond notes the governor signed the mammography bill «despite a lack of evidence about the long - term efficacy of the procedure.»

The union believes the Home Office seized on the opportunity to conduct a biased and unbalanced investigation and dismissed them, despite a lack of evidence.

A number of therapists are continuing to offer gay and bisexual clients help in becoming heterosexual, despite a lack of evidence that the treatment is safe or in any way beneficial.

It just seems people want to have faith in some things despite lack of evidence that they should.

Despite the lack of evidence, this notion took off throughout the healthcare world and was fueled by the vegetable oil and food processing industries that sought to benefit from this finding.

I can understand why people continue to believe in gods and the supernatural despite the lack of evidence, but adherence to a religion so patently man - made is beyond me.

and there is faith in things despite a lack of evidence and knowledge.

considering that theological beliefs are irrational (that is, they obtain despite a lack of evidence) why hold specific religious / theological views at all?

Faith is the belief in something despite the lack of evidence.

All three parties have all framed the deficit issue as largely being an expenditure problem, despite a lack of evidence to support that position.

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The lack of strong evidence of a softer Brexit has kept financial markets calm despite the outcome of the U.K. general election.

The researchers» most alarming observation, however, was the lack of any reliable connection to the illusive spark of creativity: «Despite the common assumption that arts education teaches creativity, we found little evidence for this hypothesis.»

(Note that this is not «leaky gut syndrome,» a disease popular in the alternative medicine community despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting its existence.)

So evidence purportedly suggests that bitcoin will continue its rise to the top, and despite the lack of time available, $ 800 might still be hit.

Despite the political pressure, he told colleagues at one of the meetings, they could not bring a case if the evidence was lacking.

Faith — steadfast assurance despite a total lack of evidence.

Religious faith is belief despite evidence (or a lack of it).

Jesuit «scientists» see all the same science, and yet imagine they «see» god in it despite the total lack of any evidence whatsoever for that conclusion.

«A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.»

Are you sure you've managed to pick the One True Faith despite the total lack of evidence to support your choice?

I run into a variant myself: I can not even remotely imagine how people can actually believe in whatever god they do, despite a total lack of evidence in that belief, and then conform their lives to it.

I even believe everybody agrees with me and that I am always right, and in the very face of much contradictory evidence, facts, and despite a complete lack of any kind of hard scientific evidence.