Sentences with phrase «flimsy evidence in»

You do not accept such flimsy evidence in any other area of your life; you wouldn't make investments solely on the word of the salesperson.

Not exact matches

I think the causal link between working hard and being successful is a very flimsy one — there's very little in the way of empirical evidence to back it up, even Buffet himself talks of winning the «ovarian lottery».

Hoffman said it also may fall apart because of what they think is flimsy evidence: «The evidence is basically non-existent so there is a chance the court will acquit him as well — but you never know in Turkey.»

Some United Methodist bishops spoke up when two of its sons, George Bush and Dick Cheney, led the nation into war in Iraq on flimsy evidence and for questionable motives.

(The evidence, whilst extremely flimsy, suggests that the Gospel message was in Beijing by AD 60, and Kyoto by AD 70.

The evidence supporting the claim that Christianity was in South America by AD 50 is, at best, too flimsy to be deemed even suggestive, much less quasi-reliable.)

And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.

You have to bear in mind that another NYC DA pursued a felony gang assault charge against Renzo Gracie on exponentially more flimsy evidence for the scuffle at One Oak several years ago with video evidence in existence to contradict the DA's witnesses» false statements which is the only reason it abandoned those charges for a misdemeanor assault plea.

There were also civilian detentions in military facilities, often based on flimsy evidence; denial of fair public trial; executive influence on the judiciary; infringement on citizens» privacy rights; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement

Whereas, in the case of the opposition especially the PDP members, even when the evidence is flimsy they will be visited with multiple harassment and intimidation for months and weeks without proper trial.

A third search warrant obtained by the state attorney general's office in May 2016 — information from which was shared with federal prosecutors — also was based on flimsy evidence, Miller wrote.

Where Neanderthals are concerned, Binford pops up again in his familiar «Rent - a-sceptic» role; but it is regrettable that the book gives further exposure to his bizarre notions, based on the flimsiest of evidence, about males and females living largely separate lives, with no semblance of a close family, as well as his erroneous claim that a lack of fish - bones shows that Neanderthals were inferior to «fully modern man» at exploiting this resource.

But some scientists say the studies are based on flimsy evidence and could harm patients, and two of them have filed detailed complaints with the U.K. Parliament's Science and Technology Committee in an effort to stop the studies.

«The evidence in this analysis is too flimsy to warrant getting very excited,» says Thomas Kirkwood, a gerontologist at the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom.

Unfortunately, this is unlikely to be the case: Khoury's most recent computer simulations suggest that vortices in the dark matter superfluid would be «pretty flimsy,» he said, and unlikely to offer researchers clear - cut evidence that they exist.

Backbench Labour MPs have criticised the government's plans to open new grammar schools, claiming they are based on «flimsy evidence» in a debate i

Research shows that, on average, the proportion of pupils in grammar schools who are eligible for free school meals is less than 3 per cent, and the Labour MP Lisa Nandy (pictured top) warned today that the government's proposals could see it «inflict an experiment» on millions of children based on «flimsy evidence» in favour of grammars.

Scientific use of evidence would expose the flimsy nature of your association; for example, that to draw some line of association between Alex and Hillary is best explained by your own ideological orientation rather than anything inherent in who says «y ’ all»

Its paradigm that the more alarming a prediction is, the flimsier the evidence required for it to survive, appeals directly to this geeky craving for the counterintuitive, and was a siren call for mediocre scientists doubtful of their prospects in the world of traditional scientific rigour.

One of the persistent problems with the models is that the aerosol forcing history is not only made up based on flimsy evidence (just take a look at it in the IPCC reports — does that look like data to you?)

Dr. Pielke Jr. has checked in here and seems very concerned with matters of exaggeration, of creating narratives from flimsy evidence or no evidence at all.

In short, Michaud's argument is outrageous, untrue, and not even supported by the flimsy «evidence» he offers.2

When we point out that the burden really lies upon those who would toss aside centuries of history on short - term, flimsy evidence, who ignore the actual evidence of heavy consolidations with more to follow, who would saddle us with a change that would be irreversible regardless of how much harm it later engendered, who would risk so much of what the legal profession has stood for, who refuse to work anywhere near as hard on real solutions to real problems as they do on this pig - in - a-poke, then we are met with silence or insults.

I tend to believe that Skilling will prevail at least in part on appeal; the evidence is too flimsy to withstand scrutiny, and his attorney ably preserved every conceivable error.

In 1972, The Sunday Times investigation team ran an article on the case over concerns about the flimsy identification evidence.

I spent months documenting and submitting every single piece of evidence to prove my claim and in the end they denied my «trip interruption» under any flimsy excuse they can find.

Having a possible dummy phone in a flimsy plastic shell may not convince everyone of LG's new design of the G5, but the evidence doesn't stop there.

People active in the world of Bitcoin will have noticed how the evidence provided by Craig Wright is rather flimsy at best.