Sentences with phrase «exaggerated claims by»

According to Editor Alan Moran in a post at Catallaxy Files blog on Climate Change: the facts 2014, Christopher Essex «points to the complexity of the scientific analysis of the climate, which has led to exaggerated claims by pseudo-experts.

When combined with the exaggerated claims by banks and some lenders, people who struggle financially are more likely to accept them.

Overall, the paper's findings should inform the reauthorization debate and temper some of the exaggerated claims by the law's many antagonists.

Not exact matches

Block claims that the $ 231.1 million in revenue Sino - Forest made by selling timber in China's Yunnan province is grossly exaggerated.

The Pope assures his reader, nonetheless, that in communion with the Church's living Tradition and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit «we can serenely examine exegetical hypotheses that all too often make exaggerated claims to certainty, claims that are already undermined by the existence of diametrically opposed positions put forward with an equal claim to scientific certainty» (p. 105).

As this case demonstrates, it can also be endangered by exaggerated claims and overreaching.»

A former Communist and Socialist who became an unvarnished anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer, Rassinier did not initially deny the existence of death camps and gas chambers, but he claimed that the number of Jewish victims was hugely exaggerated, and that most of these were in fact murdered by other Jewish inmates who had been given authority within the camps.

Cornwell is not alone either for one is reminded of the exaggerated claim made by former editor of the Catholic Herald Gerard Noel, in his book «Pius XII the Hound of Hitler» which also claims that Archbishop Pacelli, the then Apostolic Nuncio in Munich 1919, gave «a considerable sum of Church funds» to a «young man (who) had grave need of funds for his fledgling political party.»

For one thing, kings claimed power from God according to the Christian faith and, often enough, especially in that age of exaggerated papal claims to universal worldly power, their power was tangibly and visibly legitimated directly through coronation by the pope of Rome.

Second, even if we accept the accounts in Acts, it is quite possible that Paul exaggerated the similarity between the appearance to him and the appearance to the apostles in order to authenticate his claim to be also an apostle, one called independently by Jesus.

The Republic of Ireland assistant coach had claimed that the Toffees exaggerate the extent of injuries carried by James McCarthy and Seamus Coleman.

What I * found * was a rant against exaggerated claims made by advocates of the film of what those researchers said.

That created huge incentives to play the system by claiming exaggerated values for furniture and fittings.

They often engage in denial that their local collaborationist units participated in Holocaust and other atrocities (it was all done by the Germans, you know, but we only fought for freedom against Stalinism) and / or claim it was a mistake, excess, exaggerated (by the Soviets), or because of the general cruelty of the war.

That has created huge incentives to «game the system» over the years by claiming exaggerated values for fixtures and fittings.

A series of exaggerated claims were advanced by then White House press secretary Sean Spicer as the new administration showed exactly how it intended to conduct political debate.

The ease by which fraudulent and exaggerated whiplash claims can be made.

Even when he claims that our truths amount to our «irrefutable errors,» he is pointing to the exaggerated clarity of abstractions by comparison with empirical reality.

Such claims are based on early reports of 1470 which exaggerated its modernness, and on an early erroneous dating of ER 1470 which had been corrected by the late 1970's.

When the film got its public debut at Austin's South by Southwest Film Festival, people went bananas (reports claiming that the Paramount Theater levitated off its foundation are probably exaggerated, but not by much).

The Get Into Teaching campaign advertisement, which prompted a number of complaints from education bosses who claimed the advert exaggerated teachers» pay, has been excused by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Bothered by what it describes as the report's exaggerated claims, the company, Mathematica Policy Research of Princeton, N.J., has now taken the unusual step of issuing a statement that cautions against leaping to any policy conclusions.

As we all likely know well by now, speakers for both parties during last and this weeks» Republican and Democratic Conventions, respectively, spoke and in many cases spewed a number of exaggerated, misleading, and outright false claims about multiple areas of American public policy... educational policy included.

Yglesias» post argues that people who claim charter schools increase school choice exaggerate their value because people with the interest and means already exercise choice by moving around and out - compete low income and low interest parents for slots in those schools by increasing land values in districts that have them and by disproportionately applying for slots in promising charter schools.

But then again once one delves beneath the surface and begins realizing all the facts so well concealed by all the Elon Hype & Hyperbole not to mention false and exaggerated claims etc..

And by the way every TESLA range claim has been proven time and again to be greatly exaggerated to say the least

If the claim is good — and Ruf has a reputation for not exaggerating — then only a tiny group of production supercars are faster, and then not by much.

The fact that they are claiming patents exist on their technology when none do and exaggerating range by a factor of ten and have no financing is no reason to think this is just vapor ware...

Protecting Senior Investors: Report of Examination of Securities Firms Providing «Free Lunch» Sales Seminars Issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, North American Securities Regulators and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, this report concludes that free - lunch seminars focus more on sales than education and often make exaggerated or misleading claims.

• increases the risk of cardiac hemangiosarcoma by a factor of 1.6 • triples the risk of hypothyroidism • increases the risk of progressive geriatric cognitive impairment • triples the risk of obesity, a common health problem in dogs with many associated health problems • quadruples the small risk (< 0.6 %) of prostate cancer • doubles the small risk (5; this is a common cancer and major cause of death in some breeds • triples the risk of hypothyroidism • increases the risk of obesity by a factor of 1.6 - 2, a common health problem in dogs with many associated health problems • causes urinary «spay incontinence» in 4 - 20 % of female dogs • increases the risk of persistent or recurring urinary tract infections by a factor of 3 - 4 • increases the risk of recessed vulva, vaginal dermatitis, and vaginitis, especially for female dogs spayed before puberty • doubles the small risk (< 1 %) of urinary tract tumors • increases the risk of orthopedic disorders • increases the risk of adverse reactions to vaccinations One thing is clear — much of the spay / neuter information that is available to the public is unbalanced and contains claims that are exaggerated or unsupported by evidence.

He references this AMEG nonsense, presents it as valid science (although it is the furthest thing from), grossly exaggerates articles to make a point, and claims utter nonsense (6 °C by 2050, more than 100 % more than any credible institution predicts under any scenario) and never backs up his claims with numbers (especially his feedbacks, apart from the AMEG / methane stuff).

That's how the propagandists of CAGW work, shout exaggerated claims from the rooftops, by the time they withdraw the claim the MSM have moved on.

There are many different reasons why citizens may be sceptical of aspects of climate science, certainly why they may be sceptical of knowledge claims which get exaggerated by media and lobbyists.

Your claims of radiative forcing by greenhouse gases is wildly exaggerated.

I'm just pointing out that we've been through economic downturns before — far larger ones than could be supported by the hugely exaggerated claims of those who purport economic disaster due rational action taken to reduce CO2 emission.

The e-mails, dating back to 1996, were published on Web sites run by climate change skeptics who claim efforts had been made to manipulate data to exaggerate the threat of global warming.

Nothing revealed so far justifies his breaking of his promise of confidentiality, and his exaggerated (sometimes contradictory, as cited by Steven Mosher) claims about minor details of writing make him look bad.

They even claimed that the scientists who managed, and who processed, these data had deliberately manipulated both the data (by selectively removing or retaining data locations) and the analysis (by their methods of applying «adjustments») to exaggerate the warming trend.

I'm interested in the net of all regional feedbacks — global climate sensitivity — and the grossly exaggerated claims made about it by fake sceptics.

This position does not appear to be supported by any observational evidence, much like the highly exaggerated claims concerning the effects of human carbon dioxide emissions on climate.

Noble cause corruption has played itself publicly, for example, by some scientists making statements to the effect that «we need to exaggerate claims» in order to spur the policymakers to do something about the problem.

For years they and a number of researchers have claimed that the models have severely exaggerated the projected warming by greenhouse gases emitted by man and that observations over the past 20 years for the most part refute the theory.

In 2000 Patrick Michaels claimed that time had shown Hansen's 1988 prediction of temperature increase was exaggerated by 450 %, a claim later picked up by novelist Michael Crichton and others.

As for the ubiquitous claim that the debate has been skewed by corporate funding — especially oil money — what tends to be forgotten are the much larger sums available to the likes of Greenpeace and WWF to push their own exaggerated alarmist line.

HimalayaGate — An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action.

By leaving out any actual examples of what he means by «dire warnings» or exaggerated claims, and by not identifying who has said or made them, Howard probably comes across as being quite rational to those who are sitting on the fencBy leaving out any actual examples of what he means by «dire warnings» or exaggerated claims, and by not identifying who has said or made them, Howard probably comes across as being quite rational to those who are sitting on the fencby «dire warnings» or exaggerated claims, and by not identifying who has said or made them, Howard probably comes across as being quite rational to those who are sitting on the fencby not identifying who has said or made them, Howard probably comes across as being quite rational to those who are sitting on the fence.

Pseudoscientific concepts: Use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims Over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation Lack of openness to testing by other experts Absence of progress Personalization of issues Use of misleading language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

Converting the anomalies to the actuals, GIStemp in 2002 had Global Mean temperature in 1880 at 13.89 oC, and by March 2010 this had fallen to 13.76 oC, i.e. colder, not warmer, as your comment claims, thereby exaggerating the apparent warming since 1880.

Yet, while ASA has the power to protect the UK consumer from misleading toothpaste claims, it currently has no power to protect the public from misleading, exaggerated or discriminatory claims made by politicians; regardless of whether they are featured on a bus or a bill - board; and regardless of how many complaints such adverts attract.

Liability was conceded by the defendant's insurers although they had clear doubts as to the genuineness of the claimant's injuries and believed that she was exaggerating both her disability and her consequential claim for damages.