Sentences with phrase «lacks empirical support»

The negative economic consequences may be substantial when the government - mandated speech involves a claim about a technical topic that not only lacks empirical support (and thus may be characterized as «junk science»), but is deceptive and misleading (if not demonstrably false).

While it is true you that can't prove anything about the future because it hasn't happened, the disaster theory can easily be proven to be oversold because it lacks any empirical support.

Instead, the group weighed in on its area of expertise, saying the proposal «lacks empirical support for its claim that an emergency situation justifies massive, abrupt intervention that will likely cost consumers billions without any clear benefit.»

Another claim that lacks empirical support is that the results from the PARCC tests will be diagnostic and tell us important things about student learning and the quality of the teaching that our children receive.

Thus the experiential - expressive approach lacks empirical support, and tends to distort the religions it purports to understand.

[8][9][10][11] Intelligent design is seen as a pseudoscience in the scientific community, because it lacks empirical support, supplies no tentative hypotheses, and resolves to describe natural history in terms of scientifically untestable supernatural causes.

Wieman believed that the consequent nature of God had been «added on like dome and spire» — lacking both empirical support and practical value in the search for the sources of human good.

While reduced vegetation cover and soil disturbance can make more sediment available for emission in dust storms, the researchers say, the widely reported link between the storm and the fighting in Syria was untested and lacked empirical support.

Loveless himself cites Hirsch and implies that learning - styles and multiple - intelligences theories lack empirical support, but he holds off from saying that the scientific evidence has declared one side a winner.

This is the way that science works (without the interference of politicians): some ideas are supported by empirical evidence and are gradually accepted by the scientific community, while others that lack empirical support are discarded into the dustbin.

Not exact matches

I lack a belief in a god or gods because there is simply NO empirical evidence to support such a claim — for YOUR version or anyone else's.

First, it utterly lacks historical or archaeological support, and there is an overwhelming body of empirical evidence that refutes it.

I have to use logic and reason due to the utter lack of empirical scientific evidence to support the god claim.

Ok, Johnny Mo, I will... they ALL have the same problem — that is, none of them have any supporting evidence and the claims of each lack empirical falsafiability.

Despite the confidence of their advocates, they lacked substantial empirical support.

While it is impossible to prove a negative, the complete lack of empirical evidence to support belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined with a rigid and irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic with regards to these particular beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.

Many atheists simply conclude God belief is unfounded due to the lack of supporting empirical evidence.

Perhaps due to the matching hypothesis's intuitive appeal, the field of social psychology has largely accepted it as true, despite a general lack of empirical support.

Crucially, for many purposes the law also treats as evidence - based a fourth category comprising activities that have a research - based rationale but lack direct empirical support — provided, that is, that they are accompanied by «ongoing efforts to examine the effects» of the activity on important student outcomes.

These solutions lack all semblance of empirical support.

While knowledge and support of the flipped classroom is rapidly increasing, empirical research and resources available for faculty willing to transition their pedagogical approaches are lacking.

I keep coming back to what has troubled me for a long time; the lack of empirical data, hard measured data, to support the various numeric values that are associated with a rise in surface temperatures as a result of adding CO2 to the atmosphere; climate sensitivity.

Thus you must show them all wrong before your claim on the lack of empirical evidence is supported.

New Paper: Experiment Reveals No Detectable «Greenhouse» Difference Between CO2 And Air Below is a very abridged quoted summary of a new scientific paper published by Dr. Thomas Allmendinger, a physicist (chemistry, quantum mechanics) who uses a real - world experiment to document a glaring lack of empirical support for the position that CO2 is a dominant agent -LSB-...]

Although scientific conventions may occasionally change as theorizing evolves, in the case of seepage explicit conceptual rationale or empirical support for a departure from previous norms is lacking or weak.

BBD, as you certainly know, what is lacking here is empirical scientific evidence to support the notion that human GHGs (principally CO2) have been the primary cause of past warming.

What is lacking are a) a statistically robust correlation between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature (original topic of this thread) and b) empirical data based on physical observations to support the AGW premise.

They are extremely expensive, carry with them many of the same complaints leveled against the articling experience and similarly the empirical supporting evidence for their role seems lacking.

[26] He offered several reasons for this, including the «lack of empirical support for the idea that ABSs would benefit the public.»

He offered several reasons for this, including the «lack of empirical support for the idea that ABSs would benefit the public.»

Though postmodern / narrative / constructionist approaches to therapy lack a conventional evidence - base (e.g., empirical support), there is growing support for their use.

Almost 20 years ago, Dr C Henry Kempe suggested that to ensure the right of every child to comprehensive care, every pregnant woman be assigned a home health visitor who would work with the family until the child began school.7 Insurance companies declined to pay for this service because of a lack of empirical evidence to support its effectiveness.

Furthermore, supervision in general continues to suffer both from the absence of compelling empirical support demonstrating its effectiveness in improving clinical outcomes, and there is a lack of explicitly - defined supervisory procedures that can be reliably observed and measured.

Perhaps due to the matching hypothesis's intuitive appeal, the field of social psychology has largely accepted it as true, despite a general lack of empirical support.

What is most lacking in this paper is a thorough discussion of empirical evidence supporting attachment theory.

Play therapy is widely recognized as a developmentally responsive mental health intervention for children (Landreth, 2012; Schaefer, 2011), yet continually criticized for lack of empirical support (Phillips, 2009; Russ & Niec, 2011).