Sentences with phrase «on flawed studies»

It was initially based on flawed studies, but somehow became public policy (with disastrous consequences).

«It's ironic FDA would choose to ignore dozens of studies funded by [the National Institutes of Health]-- this country's best scientists — and instead rely on flawed studies from industry.»

The thing is, that argument was based on a flawed study funded by disposable diaper manufacturers.

Not exact matches

And Ross, who had gone quiet on NAFTA after it looked for a while like he would be running the show, re-emerged last week to promote a new Commerce department study that he said proves American auto workers are the victims of a flawed arrangement that favours Canada and Mexico.

Two Cornell University researchers have reported health impacts on cattle near drilling operations, but industry backers called the study «deeply flawed.»

The study on federally regulated workers indicates that the sector shrunk by 20,000 between 2008 and 2004, though cautions that the «2004 survey is deeply flawed» and advises against making comparisons between the two studies.

There appear to be no studies of children brought up by two male parents, and the few studies purporting to show that children with two lesbian mothers are in no way disadvantaged are typically flawed: they are taken from limited samples, have not followed the children's behaviour through time, and have generally been compiled solely on the lesbian parents» opinions.

Actually, the intial scientific studies (on whether prayer can effect medical outcomes) were both flawed and inaccurately reported - the studies have been revisited and the scientific data to date concludes is that prayer does not change medical outcomes.

The not - so - late Doctor Reginald Stockhausen proved the theories of the esteemed Dr. Eric M.D. Berne to be base on a small sampling and inherently flawed due to a comprised control study.

STD's / HIV the study was conducted in Africa and since then has been shown to be extremely flawed, studies on STD / HIV contraction in regards of circumcision status have been conducted in the UK Australia New Zealand Puerto Rico and even one conducted by the US navy and it showed circumcision status had no effect in the contraction of the diseases.

I think we can all agree that the quality of research on planned home birth is varied, and proponents and opponents will find flaws with respective studies.

That study may indeed be flawed, but the fact is that ALL the existing evidence on homebirth in the US shows that homebirth increases the risk of neonatal death.

Curiously, they have never demonstrated the same concern for the most widely quoted study on homebirth, the Johnson and Daviss BMJ 2005 study, which suffers from such grievous methodological flaws that it is completely invalid.

[Note: In other posts on infant sleep listed below, my co-authors and I point out flaws in studies of sleep training.

Flawed Study on Diapers Released in Britain.

In an article on the Israeli site Walla, Bransburg - Zabary points out flaws in the study's data and methodology, and explains why its conclusions were so irresponsible.

The paper by Emma Derbyshire is an opinion piece, not a scientific study, and has been submitted for publication in the British Journal of Midwifery, which we note runs misleading formula advertising (some to be featured in the monitoring report) and published a highly - flawed article on Nestlé's practices with multiple errors.

What he found is that nearly every study that purported to prove breastfeeding led to more positive outcomes for children relied on flawed methodology — there was no control group.

So you're saying any studies that show formula yields better results (not that Tanya was making such claims) would be due to the impossibility of developing a fair sampling / testing method, but you have no problem extolling the virtues of breast feeding, not to mention perpetuating this modern day phrenology of head circumference as a determination of future IQ, based on the same flawed science?

And you'll quickly see that some of the «reporting» on this study is quite flawed, and in a few cases, downright inaccurate and missing the point entirely.

Criticism of crying it out and sleep training: Though CIO critics sometimes point to a 2012 study finding that babies» levels of the stress hormone cortisol remained high even after they stopped crying and went to sleep on their own, that study has since been under fire for being too small (just 25 babies ages 4 to 10 months old) and flawed because there was no control group and no baseline cortisol levels reported to define what study author Dr. Wendy Middlemiss of the University of North Texas meant by «high.»

Critics of cry - it - out methods argue that these studies are flawed — they don't have the right measures of harm, they fail to determine whether the parents actually used cry - it - out methods to sleep train their babies, and they rely on parents» reports instead of observation.

That approach was based in part on the flawed notion that it's smart to let an infant's gastrointestinal and immune systems «mature» for a while so they can better handle allergenic foods, and some studies from the 1990s did support it.

Myth # 1 — Kids raised in single parent households have a hard time with their studies, end up on the wrong side of the law, and have serious social flaws.

The new study that lists Buffalo as the most dangerous city in the nation for online dating is flawed because it's based in part on faulty STD data.

However, such a study should be enacted prior to placing any caps on growth on any segment of the taxi industry,» Mr. Diaz said in a statement «The legislation before the City Council is flawed, and would have the unintended consequence of inhibiting the growth of the livery car services my borough and much of the city relies on for transportation.»

The state's proposed project at the land - locked DeWitt site is based on a flawed market study and shuts the door on the potential to create hundreds of jobs at a larger site, Simpson said.

New research finds flaws in a 2009 study that had provided hope and one scientist says CFS patients should stop taking antiretroviral drugs based on those findings

Some climate change deniers have taken encouragement from the pause, saying they show warming predictions are flawed, but Mann, a co-author on the study, notes that «there have been various explanations for why [the slowdown is happening], none of which involve climate models being fundamentally wrong.»

An entertaining but unnecessary solution to a problem that will never come about, from a study apparently based on a flawed premise: «None of the existing payment systems we use on Earth — like cash, credit or debit cards — could be used in space...» What about computerised electronic transfers of money?

Now a study by MIT linguistics professors and a team from Carleton University, based on an experiment with children between the ages of 3 and 6, proposes a new explanation, with a twist: In examining this apparent flaw, the researchers conclude that children deploy a more sophisticated mode of logical analysis than many experts have previously realized.

To some, the deepest flaw in a draft proposal on GOF studies from a working group of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) was its imprecise effort to define those studies that are so dangerous that they should not be allowed.

These studies were flawed, Plavcan contends, because they were based mainly on estimates of a single body part, the knee joint or femoral head, and were from a single geographic region.

In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com

In a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, researchers from Penn State University pointed out a flaw in alcohol studies based on large longitudinal study in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood DevelopmentStudies on Alcohol and Drugs, researchers from Penn State University pointed out a flaw in alcohol studies based on large longitudinal study in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood Developmentstudies based on large longitudinal study in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood Development Sstudy in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood Development StudyStudy.

Calling the study «flawed,» the Sugar Industry Association said that the fact that so many of the participants lost weight during the study «makes it impossible to separate the effects of weight loss from dietary changes on the health variables measured.»

The paper prompted a MailOnline headline of, «Projections of global drought and flood may be flawed», while the Australian followed suit with, «Climate model projections on rain and drought wrong, study says».

Califf declined their appeal but issued a 126 - page critique of the approval, citing «major flaws» in the study it was based on.

«Even in some of the industry - funded studies, genistein was shown to cause reproductive toxicity,» said Elbek, «but the panel chose to focus on perceived flaws in these studies as a way of dismissing them.»

As one of my co-workers stated to me regarding the claim made on a recent study that «Beef Lowers Cholesterol» (which he left on my desk, and when asked, explained to him how the study was designed and flawed in their conclusions)-- «You weren't actually supposed to read the study.»

The Weston A Price Foundation, a non-profit charity that disseminates information on ancestral diets, also published an article that called into question many of the study's methods and accused it of flaws.

Olive oil appears to contain anti-inflammatory compounds, but again, the methodology is flawed: two of the positive UVB ray studies were conducted on mice.

Since the flawed study a few decades ago on the effects of cholesterol & fats on our hearts & arteries, Americans have been advised to cut dangerously back on both.

NutritionFacts.org has five dozen videos on women's health, including many others on breast cancer, suggesting that a plant - based diet may be beneficial in preventing, slowing, and treating breast cancer, despite flawed or deceptive studies to the contrary.

Mattson believes it is flawed, pointing out that the studies supporting this idea were based on schoolchildren who usually ate breakfast; a decline in their academic performance might simply be due to the ill effects that occur when people begin fasting.

Another issue with flawed studies is that many studies have lumped artificial trans fat intake together with saturated fat intake, and mistakenly laid the blame on saturated fat despite the overwhelming evidence that artificial trans fat is the REAL health risk.

This is why many of the studies on the health effects of saturated fats are flawed.

Another flawed study relied on birth certificate data to conclude that still births are 10 times more likely in home birth.

Saturated fats are good for you; your body can not function without them and studies that claim they cause heart disease are based on flawed data

This is a major part of the solid science you will need to know if anyone seeks to disagree with you when you share this information; this study is really the foundation that triggered the massive emphasis on low - fat diets and the flawed belief that cholesterol and animal fats are so pernicious.