Sentences with phrase «many dubious claims»

That price didn't end up being a direct fine; but tobacco firms were told to issue «corrective statements» in marketing materials — including television ads — to make up for the dubious claims they issued over decades.

Which brings us back to the dubious claim that 90 % of families in apartments of a certain age in Toronto are on the verge of living under a bridge.

I regard as dubious claims that going into a college classroom is one of the things that triggers entrepreneur genes.

Given that you have exactly zero evidence AtheistHunter, that is a rather dubious claim — to say the least.

What I am saying is we need to reevaluate the system that allows Big Pharma to keep reapplying for patent extensions for dubious claims on additional properties of their products, resulting in higher costs.

In other words, it may be true that «the owl of Minerva flies only at night,» but Kierkegaard suspects that the metaphor hides a profoundly dubious claim: that it is possible to reach a stable end - point of reflection from which Minerva's owl can take off, and to which it can later return.

We've already voiced concerns about the Obama administration's use of drones and its dubious claims about the program.

The «climate crusade» is one characterized by true believers, opportunists, cynics, money - hungry governments, manipulators of various types — even children's crusades — all based on contested science and dubious claims.

I'm intrigued, but not enough let to want to read long article about what I view is a very dubious claim.

His participation in false or dubious claims contributes to the exploitation of the public.

Faith traditions which carve out space for supernatural activity are inherently unstable, Harding finds, in the sense that «they depend on faith constantly constructed out of intrinsically dubious claims.

Obviously the octogenarian philosopher mistook the dubious claims of a few fringe figures (like Teilhard de Chardin) for influential trends in the post-conciliar Church, imagining them an ominous aspect of what the progressive victory had let loose.

They accept, without much cavil, one of John Tracy Ellis» more dubious claims, namely, that American Catholicism had no intellectual life to speak of in the mid-1950s.

This is hardly the first dubious claim the Aggies have had this week.

* We've seen where that leads with the naturopathic industry: it's effectively unregulated and full of dubious claims, poor labelling of product, and overall bad behavior.

During the EU referendum, for example, broadcasters were criticised for being too preoccupied with balancing Leave and Remain campaigners at the expense of challenging many of their dubious claims.

UK Statistics Authority boss David Norgrove strongly criticised the foreign secretary for repeating the dubious claim that Britain would be able to spend an extra # 350 million a week on the NHS once it had left the EU,.

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Faso said he had reviewed the legislation carefully before deciding to support it, but that's a dubious claim as it was rushed to a vote before the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had an opportunity to analyze its impacts.

Not even a casual observer of Cuomo's modus operandi, his penchant for avoiding the press, his administration's hindering FOIL requests and almost clinical obsession with secrecy, could for a moment entertain Malatras» dubious claims at face value.

Political operatives have turned to the anonymous comments section on Syracuse.com, trolling all three candidates and arguing over dubious claims about internal polling and the «mood» inside each camp.

Mr Cameron this morning called on Tory MPs to explain any dubious claims and publicly apologise for any «mistakes», saying it was «not good enough» to claim they had just been following the rules.

1994: Svante Pääbo and Hendrik Poinar start developing rigorous new methods to counter dubious claims of DNA from plants and dinosaurs millions of years old, including the Poinars» weevil claim.

From the 1947 weather balloon crash in Roswell, New Mexico, to crop circles in England, they've largely joined the debate only to debunk some very dubious claims.

Colloidal silver has been around for well over 100 years, and Silver in a Bottle makes no dubious claims to be anything more than colloidal silver.

And if you're going to throw away grains (and legumes, another class of foods that trendy diets are maligning based on dubious claims that lectins, phytates, or other «anti-nutrients» are problematic), you're almost of necessity going to be eating a lot of meat.

Fad diets usually have these qualities: They restrict or even eliminate certain foods or food groups, make dubious claims and promise significant weight loss in a short period of time.

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That dating services sometimes make dubious claims should surprise no one, but rarely do their fishy fabrications make headlines.

Before you start writing... If you're not comfortable putting your picture up online, avoid overselling your appearance with dubious claims like «Sharon Stone look - alike.»

We seek to examine and expose dubious claims, especially those made in New Zealand.

Ryan Reynolds, whose dubious claim to quasi-fame was a starring role on little - watched, much - ridiculed sitcom Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, plays the title character, Coolidge College's big man on campus — in more ways than one.

But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a win if she were considered in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead category for her work in

But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a win if she were considered in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead category for her work in Black Swan.

While these reports — some of which led to dubious claims that the film includes a scene in which DiCaprio is «raped» by a bear (it doesn't)-- provide click - bait diversions, they distract from what makes this man vs. nature vs. man drama one of the finest, if still flawed, cinematic achievements of 2015.

The 2014 letter, then, was based on dubious claims about the effects of school discipline and highly questionable assumptions about what is driving racial discipline disparities.

And he then set out what, given the subsequent battles, was his most dubious claim, that these students needed «exploratory experiences» rather than «greater emphasis [on] the academic subjects.»

Furthermore, stringent oversight of charters at the school level is a dubious claim when the current law allows governing boards for charters as well as, when applicable, parent corporate boards that oversee multiple charters, to be composed of the following related - party combinations:

Walker's dubious claim to fame is based on a variety of proposals and actions including the following;

It even has the dubious claim to fame of being the very first car a racing driver known as «the Stig» drove on the opening episode of a certain TV show back in the summer of 2002.

However, this is a dubious claim since Barclays» other credit cards simply lower the delinquent fee for Iowa residents to the state - regulated $ 15.

They have an uncanny ability to home in on trusting investors who accept dubious claims at face value.

* And then there are the dubious claims that lack any supporting evidence whatsoever — for example: «Diminished resources and willingness to collect free - roaming animals have led to increasing numbers of free - roaming animals.»

Cats (and there's no reason to think these weren't pets — Marra, in fact, says at least one of them was) were the cause of six of the 33 mortalities (though Marra tacks on three more, based, I argue, on some dubious claims).

«Additionally, by classifying pet obesity as a medical condition treatable by licensed veterinarians, the pet - owning public will be better protected against potentially harmful products and services making unsubstantiated and dubious claims.»

Even some mainstream gaming journalists can be seen begging for money online, which may explain their sympathy for women like Quinn, who regularly put out pleas for cash, alongside dubious claims about «muggings.»

In the field that most interests me, anthropology, where I have a fair amount of training and experience, I see dubious claims being made all the time, based on some combination of wishful thinking, unsubstantiated assumptions and confirmation bias, so I'm used to picking through such claims to separate the wheat from the chaff.

A revealing look at RC's «real science:» When SecularAnimist posts a dubious claim (# 87) about the cause and effects of global warming, it remains here.

Yet those were the final two final candidates, and in addition to their dubious claims both were also surrounded by scandals, and I don't think I will ever understand how they ended up the final candidates.

Regardless of Hansen's dubious claims about CO2, America must build another hundred nuclear fission power plants for more electric power production.