Sentences with phrase «point rebuttal on»

Not exact matches

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

Professor Matteo Luigi Napolitano, one of Italy's top authorities on contemporary Church history, followed with a comprehensive point - by - point rebuttal of Corriere della Sera's story, noting, in particular, what Yad Vashem's file on Palatucci found, in contrast to what the newspaper claimed.

It's basically a point - by - point rebuttal to Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life and is a ruthless attack on evangelicalism.

@Christine «You might want to add to your list of rebuttal points that it's crazy to think that our ability to translate and interpret the bible without bias is somehow greater than our ability to tell right from wrong on our own.»

Just wanted to compliment you on your excellent, detailed 20 - point rebuttal to that apologist's video in a conversation from last night.

Senate Republicans, not surprisingly, seized on the seven - person dissent in the commission's preliminary report that gave a pointed rebuttal to the public financing recommendation.

In a briefing with reporters at NYPD Headquarters, a news release that contained a point - by - point rebuttal and an appearance on national television by the current commissioner, Bill Bratton, police officials denied any altering of statistics and defended the city's low crime figures for 2015.

When Horton ran complaints made by two more unnamed critics of the CDC center on 3 March, CDC Director Thomas Frieden and the head of division under attack, Kevin De Cock, decided to take on the critics point by point, which they do in a rebuttal (PDF) that yesterday appeared online in The Lancet.

Pick any of the substantive points and I'll point you to a good rebuttal (check the index, or the guide on «A few things ill - considered» (see sidebar)-RRB-.

In response to the President's 2013 State of the Union address, Morano published a point by point rebuttal to the section on climate change.

I believe that Dr. Greger tries to keep an eye on requests for topics which are made in this forum, so I'm thinking that your request has been heard and hopefully you will get your rebuttal either in a blog post or video at some point in the future.

President Bush issued a pointed rebuttal last week to critics of the No Child Left Behind Act, rejecting arguments that the law heaps unrealistic demands on schools and vowing to oppose any efforts to weaken it.

Comments — Tom Semple's rebuttal to a couple of points made by James McQuivey in the interview last week, GuitarLover 1999 on the Joe Konrath interview, and Al MacDiarmid on the wonders of Calibre.

I wrote my own rebuttal to LL Barkat's piece on my blog a few weeks ago http://bit.ly/11ZlMay I stressed the importance of not walling yourself into an ivory tower and pointed out that Hugh Howey says his blog is one of the major things that contributed to his success.

I just want to make a quick rebuttal on point 2, which is not quite what price elasticity suggests.

All of this is a preamble to a point of rebuttal to my commissioning colleague, and one that I think will be carried through to the East London Painting Prize: no, painting does not have to be on canvas.

Rebuttals are not hard to find (if you go to «start here» on the top of the RC page, and scroll to the section that says «Informed, but seeking serious discussion of common contrarian talking points» each one of those links discusses this claim, and similar ones).

Pick any of the substantive points and I'll point you to a good rebuttal (check the index, or the guide on «A few things ill - considered» (see sidebar)-RRB-.

Brian, I'd recommend that you run the talking points through a reality check before attaching your name to them — one excellent resource is skepticalscience.com, from whence (after.1 second of effort) I reached the rebuttal to «Scientists predicted an impending ice age in the 1970's» («Is it really appropriate to compare the scientific evidence for an impending ice age in the 70's to the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming today?»

Even if you did rebut all ten points, it would have little effect on the general public's understanding of the issue — other than to note that the «ten points» were important enough to merit rebuttal by an expert, so there must still be large uncertainty.

Duarte touches on it well but why even quote the fictitious «97 %» propaganda talking point as having any rational foundation at all as rebuttal?

Monbiot, unlike Kleiman, makes some attempt at a reasoned rebuttal of Wills, with four points (really three: on the global cooling hysteria, arctic ice disappearance, and the current absence of global warming).

He spent months painstakingly crafting a point - by - point, fact - based rebuttal to Monckton's claims, then posted it on the faculty website.

Scientists generally supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings on climate change see this correction of the UAH temperature analyses as a significant vindication of their findings on this issue and, as such, as a major rebuttal to climate contrarians who long had pointed to the differences in surface and upper atmosphere warming trends as supporting their viewpoints.

Perhaps you didn't notice, but below Indermühle, et al., 1999, on the same page in Science, was a written rebuttal by Wagner, et al., that points out that Indermühle, et al., rested their critique on stomata measurements from «altitudinally and latitudinally contrasting growth areas,» and on stomatal density measurements rather than the more reliable normalized stomatal index.

I wrote a rebuttal to Feldthusen's letter that expands on some of these points: http://www.youthandwork.ca/2012/12/who-let-dogs-out-rebuttal-to-bruce.html.

[13] I also note that the oral evidence of Dr. Makin reporting on these studies is not significantly narrowed from the point he makes in his written report and the defendants had agreed earlier that this was the proper subject of the rebuttal reports of Dr. Caillier and Dr. Prout.

[8] In my view this is a proper basis for rebuttal evidence on this narrow point; i.e., is a neurologist of the opinion that there can be a diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome in the absence of positive signs and a nerve conduction study?

There are limits on rebuttal evidence, however, and one such limit is that the evidence called in rebuttal must be truly responsive to the other sides case as opposed to addressing the points that needed to be proven in the «case in chief `.

One argument that I already made is that modifying Bitcoin at this point is simply too risky to be worth it; however, an even better rebuttal can be made by simply flipping the argument on its head.