Sentences with phrase «own flawed studies»

The green coffee bean manufacturer, Applied Food Sciences Inc., agreed to pay a $ 3.5 million settlement after the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using the results of the flawed study to make baseless claims, the agency announced in September.

It contains an abundance of useful information, even though it is in many respects a flawed study.

Most people still cling to the old misguided «science» of saturated fats causing obesity and heat disease created by one flawed study and carried by the medical establishment and the media, enough to create a huge no or low fat industry that actually has contributed more to obesity and heart disease than any other dietary choice before.

While most laypeople won't likely want to read the entire analysis and rebuttal of Wax's work, it is significant because these researchers pretty much refute all of Wax's work and show, step by step, how flawed the study was and how referencing this study as a basis for decision making is also flawed.

This flawed study is hugely disappointing, and I'm not surprised people are using it as «proof.»

just the type of parents you can dupe into second guessing themselves and buying school lunch for their kids merely by publishing a flawed study???

So there is no responsible way to draw generalizable conclusions from this set of flawed studies.

Flawed Study on Diapers Released in Britain.

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

«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.»

Is it alarming that the AAP uses flawed studies to strongly recommend against a natural human behavior?

Saini's book is full of examples right up to today of scientists who have started from this and other flawed premises, which have led to generations of flawed studies and results that reinforce stereotypes.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security used a scientifically flawed study to justify its selection of Manhattan, Kansas, as the site for the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, according to a federal report obtained by The Washington Post.

The publisher eventually admitted that the flawed study should not have been published.

Continue reading Instead of retracting a flawed study, a journal let authors re-do it.

As a citizen of the United States and a taxpayer, and as a practicing biomedical applied statistician, I am especially concerned about the possibility that the funding garnered for such potentially flawed studies is detracting from other groups» ability to obtain funding to perform valid research in the valuable arena of personalized medicine.

Well, the diet that I recommend usually freaks people out initially, but it's rooted in sound science and facts, and not influenced by flawed studies funded by companies with ulterior motives.

While it was once thought that giving hormones like estrogen and progesterone to women could be dangerous (some flawed studies seemed to indicate that hormones...

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

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.

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.

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

A few flawed studies over the past years made it appear that testosterone replacement therapy increases cardiovascular risk and incidence of heart attacks.

I can also spot poor experimental and clinical trial design and methodologically flawed studies — and I know that the evidence for cause and effect in humans is incredibly tenuous at best.

You can read the full details of these flawed studies here.

Drawing conclusions from single case, especially personal experience, is even worse than (clearly) flawed study.

Flawed studies and misinformed doctors will kill you faster than eating eggs.

While it was once thought that giving hormones like estrogen and progesterone to women could be dangerous (some flawed studies seemed to indicate that hormones could increase the risk of breast cancer or heart attack), we now know that these hormones might actually help prevent the very diseases they supposedly made worse.

Thus a deeply flawed study was catapulted to national prominence.

Here's something you don't see every day - in fact I can't think of it happening ever before (though surely it must have): The ED of the Cowen Institute at Tulane, John Ayers, has resigned after a report came out and had to be withdrawn, according to Higher Education via Politico (Education Think Tank Head Quits After Flawed Study).

So are some leading education traditionalists: Parents Across America co-founder) Leonie Haimson's Class Size Matters picked up $ 25,000 from the union last fiscal year, while Western Michigan's Gary Miron (whose rather flawed study on KIPP's charter schools earlier this year was the subject of Dropout Nation «s analysis) picked up $ 5,000.

«Mid-and Late - Career Teachers Struggle With Paltry Incomes» is the latest flawed study to claim that American teachers are underpaid.

Second, we believe that claims made on the basis of this flawed study feed the false hopes of many Americans, including policymakers, educators, and the general public, that we can find a single, simple solution, such as directly teaching phonics, to the real and complex problem of improving the reading of young children in high poverty schools.

Like climate change deniers, TNR advocates ignore the preponderance of scientific evidence, but love to cite a few flawed studies and anecdotes that they believe prove their point.

This is especially true when it comes to «experts» that have no excuse for falling for such a horribly flawed study.

Flawed studies that get through the formal process will soon be forgotten, unless of course, they have a legion of quacks who want to use their flawed results to advance their religious, philosphical, political, or economic agendas.

ISO - NE's concerns derive from an incomplete and flawed study about ISO - NE's long - term fuel security.

Regarding Peiser and Oreskes: Peiser has said: «my critique of Oreskes» flawed study was later found to be partially flawed itself».

Critics of President Barack Obama's landmark regulation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions almost always highlight a series of flawed studies (which are often paid for by utility or fossil fuel interests) to attack the Clean Power Plan.

But, as we see, it has spawned discredited studies, such as the Mann et al. hockey stick, or apparently flawed studies, such as the Marcott et al. copy «shtick».

It is like the movie Groundhog Day, with the same flawed studies being refuted in the same ways.

And predictably, Dominion has followed up its win with a deeply flawed study it plans to use as a basis for a new round of standby charges on customers who net meter.

Sadly, as I've explored the issue in detail, my faith in «science» has been badly shaken by what I perceive to be the deliberate suppression of debate and the quick, unquestioning embrace of terribly flawed studies that happen to support AGW.

The hockey stick story reveals that the IPCC allowed a deeply flawed study to dominate the Third Assessment Report, which suggests the possibility of bias in the Report - writing process.

This is not the first time that the Pacific Research Institute has used flawed studies to attack clean energy progress, as they continue to do with the heavily - touted, heavily - debunked «Spanish study.»

97 % was a flawed study from the start.

In short, this is a deeply flawed study and if it were to be published as anything resembling the draft I have examined, that would certainly raise troubling questions about the peer review process at the Annals of Applied Statistics.

The accusation of flawed studies is echoed by the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency which said of Bayer's clothianidin application, «All of the field / semi-field studies, however, were found to be deficient in design and conduct of the studies and were, therefore, considered as supplemental information only.

Seizing upon a single, deeply flawed study in Energy and Environment by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, he convened a hearing to call into question «the entire science of climate change.»

We're suspecting that Bayer submitted flawed studies to play down the risks of pesticide residues in treated plants.»