Sentences with phrase «over false evidence»
«Man wrongly imprisoned for 20 years can sue San Francisco police over false evidence claims»: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued last Friday.
https://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/ Not exact matches
It points to evidence showing that 2,100 women need to be screened over 11 years to prevent one death, but one in three of them get false - positives.
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).
Behe presented the evidence for his hypothesis, Ken Miller proved how each piece of evidence he put forward was false, and the theory of evolution once again proved to be the top candidate to explain the phenomena of biological changes over time.
«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.»
The other interesting aspects of this article are the possible anecdotal evidence for one of the benefits of free birth over a birth with an unskilled midwife, possible resulting in a false sense of security - she realised something was wrong and went to hospital - and also the description of the birth - the first twin's head essentially becoming trapped by the second twin - which seems to match something Attitude Devant raised as a possible complication of first twin breech, in one of the Lisa Barrett threads.
But when we are presented with the same pattern over and over again it is easy to fall victim to what is known as confirmation bias, or coming to false conclusions because the evidence we use does not come from a broad enough sample.
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.
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.»
Times have changed, though, and Nippon Ichi's American branch announced they were bringing over Sakura Wars 5 as Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love on both the PlayStation 2 and the Wii, and unlike all the other false starts over the years, I have physical evidence that the game is out in my native language.
History shows that is also inevitable when enough people gather increasing evidence over long periods of time, that established ideas that are false always succumb to the weight of increasing evidence, and that they are held by an increasingly smaller percentage of the active scientists in the discipline as the evidence grows.
When reviewing convictions, we focus on the forms of weak evidence which have been proven unreliable over the past few decades — such as mistaken eyewitness identifications, false confessions, and bad forensics.