Sentences with phrase «on exaggerated claims»

Mathematician and physicist Steve Burnett calls BS on the exaggerated claims about so called CAGW.

In this beautiful example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally had enough with Hill's Science Diet pushing the envelope on exaggerated claims for its products.

Not exact matches

Too many marketers rely on hyperbole, exaggerated claims and emotional manipulation.

Scholl claimed the impact of a sonic boom on people on the ground had been greatly exaggerated and that stories of broken windows were not based on reality.

He suggested claims that fake news was common on the platform were exaggerated.

On Saturday, it said it had developed the capability to strike the U.S. mainland, although Western missile experts say the claim is exaggerated.

Order requiring an Orlando, Fla., seller and distributor, of cosmetics and cosmetic distributorships, among other things to cease using its openended, multilevel marketing plan; engaging in illegal price fixing and price discrimination and imposing selling and purchasing restrictions on its distributors; and to cease making exaggerated earnings claims and other misrepresentations in an effort to recruit distributors.

This picture of the Dutch artist's dependence on his Flemish forbear (Rubens was almost 30 years Rembrandt's senior) exaggerates the evidence and contradicts Schama's other insistent claim: that Rembrandt should be recognized as an unparalleled genius.

Whitehead's account of final causation is a masterful recovery of a seminal idea which had fallen on hard times primarily because of the exaggerated claims of its proponents.

Mahamudu Bawumia's claim that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has since 2009 amassed and spent 12 times the nominal resources that the NPP had over its eight years of leadership is «cleverly exaggerated», policy think tank IMANI has said in its commentary on the opposition New Patriotic Party's vice presidential nominee's lecture he delivered on Thursday September 8 at the National Theatre.

Among the Cuomo attacks on Astorino was an exaggerated claim based on the long - running HUD lawsuit against Westchester County.

During arguments Tuesday, Gassman also told Cooper that claims about Alfonse D'Amato's influence in Nassau were exaggerated, noting that he left the Senate 20 years ago and is a Republican while Lorintz was elected on the Democratic ticket.

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.

Activists seize on these reports, marking the beginning of a multi-decade effort to exploit the issue with exaggerated and unproven claims.

Then, most of the popular supplements on the market today come either with exaggerated claims about their effectiveness or they're literally useless.

For this reason some niche dating site owners may be making exaggerated marketing claims on their site to try and lure in paying members.

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...

However, the case does put automakers on full alert not to exaggerate mileage claims, and to be as direct as possible about acknowledging likely real - world efficiency levels.

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.

While they like to tout it as «one of the finest beaches on Maui», that claim is a bit exaggerated.

There is no doubt that some environmentalists make exaggerated claims on global warming, but when was the last time these were shown in a major news outlet?

In all cases, those with a fiduciary charge to protect their investors ultimately resorted to exaggerated claims about costs, relying on public fear to help slow the rate of policy response.

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.

Penetrating both the pretense that the consensus arguments are «all about the science,» and the exaggerated claims of certainty, is a great service, regardless of where one sits on the political spectrum.

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.

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.

Mr Gore has been accused of exaggerating climate - change risks for his own political gain and conservative critics have claimed scientific research is skewed to play on the fears of the public.

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.

The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at sceptics» claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been exaggerated.

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 fence.

Indeed, with Matt's comment in mind, I suspect it is even possible to conclude that Howard is actually thinking of on - line comment threads on newspaper web sites when he thinks of those dire warning and exaggerated claims.

You certainly will: all of it, at least on the first three pages, concerns bird and bat deaths; most are saying that the claims of wind power opponents about these are grossly exaggerated.

The Telegraph reports on a Russian claim that British climate scientists have deliberately cherry picked data from Russian temperature station to exaggerate the case for anthropogenic global warming, Dec. 16, 2009.

During the show, Beck and those he featured rehashed several falsehoods and misleading talking points in an attempt to discredit the scientific consensus on global warming and to claim that former Vice President Al Gore «exaggerate [d]» and misrepresented climate science in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics, 2006).

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

Some of the attacks on the locks rule have been a bit exaggerated, claiming that there should be no protection — ... [more]

It seems the courts are taking an increasingly intolerant approach to fraudulent and exaggerated claims, and are visiting the consequences of such claims on solicitors, as well as the unsuccessful claimants.

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.

Recently, when I found myself waiting in line at the courthouse registrar between two extremes: one neighbour was seemingly senior member of the defence bar boasting loudly about the various inventive ways in which he's gotten clients off on domestic assault charges, and in the same loud tone how women tend to exaggerate claims of assault.

Probably the most significant driver of these proposals has been the acceptance by government of the complaint by motor insurers that they are on the receiving end of a tsunami of RTA personal injury claims, the bulk of which they say are trivial, exaggerated and / or fraudulent.

I do not make the claim that some consultants exaggerate the risks of technology lightly — though granted, it is based on my own observation and experience as opposed to a systematic study.

The firm places emphasis not only on aggressively defending often spurious or exaggerated claims, but also on objectively evaluating the chances of success, so that sound business decisions can be made about whether to settle the case or proceed to trial.

For one, litigation finance companies, as purchasers of the securities, could rely on the antifraud provisions to redress misrepresentations made by claimants seeking financing, and the potential for this liability should help combat claimants» incentive to exaggerate the merits of their claims.

The Conservative manifesto pledged to «reduce insurance costs for ordinary motorists by cracking down on fraudulent and exaggerated whiplash claims».

Generally the line where law society regulation needs to come in seems to be where a firm is sending demands threatening suit based on dubious or greatly exaggerated cause of action, seeking a settlement amount greater than the client would likely be entitled to at law, with the goal that a significant portion of recipients of the demands will settle to avoid the costs of court and embarrassment of the subject matter (the copyright claims often involve allegations of downloading various forms of pornography).

Smith LJ went on to say that it may be that the policy is wrong and the law should be changed, and expressed some sympathy with the view that fraudulently exaggerated claims should be struck out in their entirety.

As the political executive remains stagnated to dig into the irregularities by insurance companies in demanding exaggerated claims against the exact reimbursement of hospital expenses of rickshaw pullers & labourers under RSBY (Rashtriya Swashthya Bima Yonja) from government, the speaker, Shashank Shekhar Bhokta, on Monday orders a special house committee for an investigation into the scam.

Based on these statistics, insurance companies have found that the lower a policy holder's credit score is, the more likely they are to file claims, exaggerate claims, commit insurance fraud, or be late on payments.

This included «diminishing and discrediting the resistance,» (like insisting on low turnout numbers for protests) but also by «exaggerating, enthusing, and claiming broad public support» for pro-government... well, everything.

If you're desperate for a job, that's okay, but never let your desperation push you to exaggerate claims on your resume.