Sentences with phrase «on false evidence»

Adoptive parents should feel protected from having their adoption orders set aside due to an injustice, but should parents be entitled not to have their parenthood set aside based on false evidence?

How would I feel about a client seeing me breaking bread with the same prosecutor or cop who is trying to get my client locked up, particularly in instances where I feel the prosecution is based on false evidence, an effort to obtain a disproportionately severe sentence, or a law that I feel should be stricken or heavily decriminalized in the first place (e.g., I want the legalization of marijuana, prostitution, gambling, criminal libel and obscenity and the heavy decriminalization of all other drugs)?

Questioning the basis of ideas enables all of us to reject claims that are based on false evidence and to recognise when evidence is being used selectively to support particular actions.

Not exact matches

Pollock, whose documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.

Over the short - term, unfortunately, there is no assurance that investors or analysts will quickly recognize that this market is trading on the basis of false premises about earnings and valuation (though my impression is that those who wake up based on reasoned argument and evidence will be better off than those who wake up based on investment losses).

Your assertions are false and based on no evidence.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Once you get through the deception and their crazy no - fact doctrine based on book where it's history has been proven false due to the lack of DNA and Archeological evidence that does not support the BOOK OF MORMON, I am glad this guy was intelligent enough to leave.

Faith and religion go hand in hand... faith is believing without evidence and religion is just a way of playing on that., sucking in the gullible with false promises.

How sad that you deny real evidence for a 2000 year old book that has never been updated and can be proven to be false on numerous things... a book written by primitive man to fool the gullible out of money and make them live in fear.

Claiming a god exists is absolutely a positive statement of false knowledge, but saying we can't know, don't know, and that we as an individual don't have enough evidence to make a positive statement on any gods existance, that's a rational position to take.

so i want to put it on a definination of delision «A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness.

But please do go on tell me more about how evolution is in fact «false», disprove genetic evidence, paleontological evidence, anatomical evidence, evidence from cell biology, virology, zoology, mycology, should I keep going?

I have concluded based on scientific evidence atheism is false.

This conclusion seems both silly and false, but apart from that, Berdyaev's whole point is based on a faulty reading of the evidence.

You basically said «since you don't believe what I do, which is based on FAITH and not empirical evidence, all other observations and science are false.»

In response to Mormonism where is the factual evidence from what this Faith is based on: 1) Prove that reformed Eygptian is a true language 2) Provide a map showing the journey in American the Nephites and the Moronites took to establish themselves will validating their establisments 3) The Book of Abraham has been proven false so why is still accepted as scripture 4) Joseph Smith was not a Jew or part of the tribe Levi, but believed that the rights of the priesthood was given to him.

The patient knew / felt the truth... the doctors were basing their evaluations on «evidence» which appeared true but was false.

I'd placed my faith in a set of propositional truth claims that could be deemed true or false based on measurements and evidence and analysis and reason.

As shown by the New York Times» own evidence, published for all to see on their website at the beginning of their well planned assault this Easter, the claim concerning what the «Pope -LSB-...] allowed» is false on two counts:

This false dichotomy can wreak havoc on young Christians raised to believe they have to choose between God and evolution, and who after encountering evidence in support of the theory, abandon faith altogether.

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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.

You can't use opinion as evidence and you don't get to decide based on personal preference which information to accept as true and which to reject as false.

I'm pretty sure this old trope about letting your baby pacify at the breast will teach them to overeat is false and not based on any actual evidence.

Sometimes this calculation is based on false statistics or inadequate evidence, or lack of sufficient personalisation.

Research has shown that more and more people feel that infant formula is equivalent to human milk, based on manufacturer claims that are false, misleading, and not supported by the evidence.

Commentators have focused on the «# 350 million per week» message delivered by Vote Leave, as evidence that the referendum was held under false pretences.

The historical evidence I'm asking for may include cases of covert operations that had been blamed on another party, false flag operations, etc..

On February 17th, 2009, an Italian court sentenced Mills to four years and six months in jail for accepting a bribe from Berlusconi and giving false evidence on his behalOn February 17th, 2009, an Italian court sentenced Mills to four years and six months in jail for accepting a bribe from Berlusconi and giving false evidence on his behalon his behalf.

«As to whether she made false statements,» Carman went on, evidence presented at trial is «legally insufficient.»

Responding further to questions posed by Karim Naatogmah about his ban, Dr. Bilal said «the ban on me in the USA came about in the 90s and it was based on a false accusation which had no evidence to support it.»

It seems to me that the key distinctions should be (i) owning what you do and not running false flag operations; (ii) scrutiny and negative campaigning being based on evidence, and something you can stand behind as legitimate argument under scrutiny of it.

It is false to claim that there is still a «debate» going on over the origins of the Giant's Causeway, because the creationist viewpoint has no scientific evidence to back it up, and it is completely wrong to portray it on an equal footing with the genuine scientific account.

Offering no evidence or details, Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama of having Trump Tower telephones «wire tapped» during last year's election — a claim that an Obama spokesman said was false.

Judge Peter Lynch wrote in his 11 - page decision on Tuesday that evidence presented to a grand jury was «legally insufficient» to back up the three felony counts of offering a false instrument for filing on which Ortt was indicted.

In a terse, five - page ruling on Wednesday, the Second Judicial Department Appeals Court agreed with the defense lawyers, saying the Brooklyn district attorney's office had indeed failed to turn over crucial evidence and had never corrected «the knowingly false or mistaken material testimony of a prosecution witness.»

Ornstein called on scientists to be vigilant against false information and evidence - free arguments.

Although their analysis does not include data after 2004, the researchers note that they doubt that the use of DNA identification technology would have much impact on false conviction rates — because DNA evidence is primarily used in cases such as rape rather than homicide.

«We're barely starting to scratch the surface on the scientific evidence about false news, its consequences and its potential solutions.»

If we interpret to «know» as «is judged to be the case based on the available evidence», the statement is patently false.

On the plus side, Aisner points out, testing via circulating tumor DNA returns very few false - positives — when a test discovers DNA with a cancer - causing genetic change, it is strong evidence that this alteration is, in fact, present in the patient's cancer.

In legal terms, the false positive rate means the proportion of cases in which, on the basis of the evidence, a suspect is found guilty when in fact they are innocent.

Ryan and Roverts believe that some or many of the other American scientists must have: (1) foresaken their search for the truth, (2) knowingly espoused false conclusions, or (3) remained silent about the scientific and engineering evidence supporting demolition as the true cause for the collapse of the 3 buildings on 9/11.

It is clear, however, that evidence of an excess of amino acid substitutions (at least from site - by - site tests) is no longer a sufficiently convincing demonstration of selection, not only because a high ratio could result from selection on synonymous mutations rather than positive selection on proteins [5], but also because there is potentially a high false discovery rate of selected sites [6].

See «anti-cholesterol attacks on eggs resulted in severe economic loss through a reduction in egg consumption,» so the egg industry created a «National Commission on Egg Nutrition» to combat the anti-cholesterol, anti-egg publicity with ads like this, exclaiming there is no scientific evidence whatsoever that eating eggs in any way increases the risk of heart attack,» which the U.S. Court of Appeals found patently false and misleading.

Dr Greger — How can you make a «probably false» claim on such little evidence such as that to suit your stance when it could also very well be «probably true».

Is it possible a doctor with a medical license maybe wants their patients to get evidenced - based treatment, and discourage the use of things that could be harmful by sheer lack of proven effectiveness alone, instead of being sold over-priced, false promises that prey on people desperate for help who often can't afford the cost, but pay it out - of - pocket anyway?

(The whole play) Also included: - medium term plan - revision activities - practice exam questions - context revision Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources are matched to the new specification literature course and enable students to: - analyse language and structure - explore context and make links within answers - explore character presentation - explore themes - explore effect on the audience - using evidence Resources also provide some opportunities to develop skills needed for the new specification language exams including: - speech writing - imaginative writing - true or false practice - selecting and retrieving information - «How far do you agree» evaluation practice - language analysis

While it's understandable why school districts and others may want to claim a particular school works given pressure to perform (and pressure on balance is good in that it has led to some great new effective school models), we all have to be far more careful in not reinforcing false claims before having more substantial evidence that a school is working.