Sentences with phrase «dubious assumption»

Let's forget for a moment that that area doesn't really exist as anything other than a mathematical construct based on dubious assumptions.

Under this highly dubious assumption, climate policy only shifts capital around between industries and provinces but can not affect total investment.

I suspect that there are very dubious assumptions that reading the real report carefully will quickly disclose.

That has turned out to be, at best, a highly dubious assumption.

But such a question contains many dubious assumptions that could lead religious communication dangerously astray — as it already has in some cases.

The senator recently criticized the agency for releasing a series of white papers on methane emissions which, he argued, made dubious assumptions about the industry and the government's ability to make it more efficient.

Unfortunately, this overblown estimate rests on two fairly dubious assumptions.

The supposed stable configuration of geography, with relatively predictable climate patterns, coastlines and icepacks in familiar locations, and clear demarcations of territorial control on land are increasingly dubious assumptions as weather patterns change, sea levels rise and ice packs disintegrate while technological innovations, communications and global markets cause rapid fluctuations in the price in food and other essentials across boundaries.

These scholars survey the green jobs literature, analyze its assumptions, and show how the special interest groups promoting the idea of green jobs have embedded dubious assumptions and techniques within their analyses.

The idea that a teacher trained in the use of a handgun would succeed in ending a shooting rampage by someone with an assault rifle is simply an assertion, nothing more, based on dubious assumptions and best - case conditions.

Under this highly dubious assumption, climate policy -LSB-...]

Like pretty much every paper ever published by the climate alarmism industry, all the scary predictions are merely projections based on modeled scenarios dependent on so many dubious assumptions that their conclusions are objectively worthless.

It's a very dubious assumption that he would side with apartheid Israel in the present day if he were alive.

We have never understood the truism that most first - generation wealth is created on the strength of one idea or company, and then concludes with the dubious assumption that in order to preserve it, it must be spread among a thousand other companies» Frank Martin

This project rides on the dubious assumption that there is only one kind of truth, the kind of empirically established explanations attained by scientists.

This strand of naysaying is based on some dubious assumptions — that limited resources may not ethically be concentrated and that resources first earmarked for one purpose can be easily transferred, without loss, to some other, more Christian or egalitarian purpose.

Now that Cuomo has «declared» and has to start answering questions (assuming that the press does its job... a dubious assumption), his lead will significantly diminish.

While this sounds low for the party's absolute core vote, remember that turnout at the last election was 62 %, so if all that 13 % always vote (a dubious assumption in itself) we are talking about roughly a fifth of actual voters.

That estimate, though, is based on what critics say is a dubious assumption that the state will hold its overall spending growth to two percent.

His is one of 27 essays in this provocative collection that tackles some of science's most enduring misconceptions and dubious assumptions.

Then most multiverse critique rests on some combination of the following three dubious assumptions:

They've shed light on dubious assumptions and frequently brought a healthy rigor, one that was too often missing in the»80s and»90s.

But these arguments rest on the dubious assumption that teachers already know how to provide better instruction, are too selfish and lazy to provide it, and need to be threatened and cajoled into doing so.

The Proposal would require creation of a significant new bureaucracy and legal team to administer and defend its dubious assumptions of authority.»

That's a dubious assumption at best.

[10] Though far less than the «one billion birds» sometimes cited by TNR opponents, [11] ABC's «estimate» is based on some dubious assumptions.

Another dubious assumption has to do with trapping efficiency — the Tufts team assumes that there's no difference between TVHR and TNR.

Water cycle researchers (i.e. Dai and Trenberth) have made the dubious assumption that the amount of water transported via precipitation to the land from the ocean is balanced each year by river runoff.

The rationale for homogenization is based on the dubious assumption that all neighboring weather stations should display the same climate trends.

These dubious assumptions, which are pulled out of thin air, are laundered by being passed through these complex black boxes we call climate models and suddenly the results are somehow scientific proof of AGW.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.

Whether even 10 % of practitioners are including official statutes in their binders is, however, a dubious assumption.

Such an orientation may help researchers and policymakers avoid the pitfalls of a research approach that builds on the dubious assumption that having a child with ID is a threat.