Sentences with phrase «purported causes»

I think it would be fair to say that these purported causes might be only...

Typically medical science demands rigorous testing of any purported cause of a disease.

What is most bizarre about this, besides Judith's continued evidence - free assertions and a purported cause - and - effect, is Judith then looking for solutions in th areas of journalism and poltiics, areas where public trust is abysmally low.

There is no such research, either as to these purported outcomes, or their purported cause, or even in the assumption that children lose close connections, etc., i.e. that the purported situation even exists in its own right.

Not exact matches

McGurk posted a photograph Wednesday of surrendering IS militants, saying: «once purported as fierce, now pathetic and a lost cause.»

Although the recent report of the National Commission on the catastrophe (http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/) purports to provide «thorough analysis and impartial judgment» on the «causes» of the explosion and «the lessons -LSB-...]

«Despite the level of hysteria and partisanship in American politics, we are surprised and disappointed by the unprecedented attack on a media company by an organization that purports to value free speech,» American Media officials said in a statement Tuesday about the Common Cause complaint.

Now, the Common Cause watchdog group wants the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress to investigate a $ 130,000 payment that President Trump's lawyer is alleged to have arranged weeks before the 2016 election for a former porn actress in an attempt to cover up her purported affair with Trump.

This is lazy, and it commits the genetic fallacy by shifting from the rational grounds to the purported non-rational causes and motives for opposition.

For if one argues that past causes produce the effect, this purports to be a total explanation.

The Bible definitely makes wonderful sense apart from Dispensationalism, which is a recent (less than 200 years old) theological innovation that causes far more problems than it purports to solve.

Media Statement 9 October, 2015 New campaign against soft drinks fails to tackle real health challenges Responding to the «Rethink Sugary Drink» campaign, which targets sugar - sweetened drink consumption and its purported impact on health, Geoff Parker, Australian Beverages Council CEO, states: «Continuing to vilify soft drinks as a leading cause of obesity is distorting the -LSB-...]

Obviously there are still issues to sort out in respect of the stadium safety issues, but if you look at some of the still photographs of the faces of some of the people involved, purporting to be both West Ham and Chelsea fans, you can see just why they are there, namely to cause trouble.

The purported mechanism is thought to be the sensory deprivation caused by baby wearing and extended breastfeeding.

I pulled up one a couple of weeks ago on breastfeeding and its purported relationship to all cause mortality and SIDS mortality.

Dr. Ericksonಥsearch has demonstrated that some infant formulas dissolve tooth enamel, significantly reduce pH, and cause dental caries and pulp involvement.1, 2 Other authors have also questioned the purported link between breastfeeding and infant caries.

Many babies can not wear disposable diapers: the plastic causes rashes; perfumes or chemicals purporting to contribute to «skin care» and the general airless quality of disposable diapers increases diaper rash and allergies.

Crib bumpers probably do prevent some injuries caused by babies» limbs getting entrapped between crib slats and heads getting bonked against the hard crib sides, but as the CPSC noted in a November 2016 statement, «we strongly believe that the risk of death from padded crib bumpers far outweighs any purported benefits.»

The two purported incidents caused hundreds of NPP supporters to troop to the three - time flagberer's residence with the intention of protecting him from an intended raid by the BNI, which the party said its intelligence had gathered.

The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has rubbished some documents making rounds in the media, purported to be the outcome of investigations into the causes of the NDC's defeat by the Kwesi Botchwey committee.

Many people agree with some of their aims, but the fact is, UKIP as a party is amatuerish and has displayed electoral vanity and ineptitude, damaging the very cause they purport to support.

The scientists do not purport that lead is the only cause of ADHD symptoms, nor does the research indicate that lead exposure will guarantee an ADHD diagnosis; rather, the study demonstrates that environmental pollutants, such as lead, do play a role in the explanation of ADHD.

A study purporting to show that genetically modified food causes health problems has been republished in a second journal after the first one retracted it

Such concerns have been fueled by a now thoroughly debunked but high - profile 2012 study by French researchers purporting to show that GM corn caused cancer in rats.

The data has been massaged to make them fit the models, but then the new figure are completely incompatible with the effects of aerosols which it is purported are causing global dimming.

As with any purported statistical result (lack of significant difference is also a result) a cogent hypothesis linking cause and effect is necessary.

In my opinion, we SHOULD care if something is purported to do something but does nothing, regardless of whether placebo causes similar results or not.

Although supplements purported to increase testosterone have been around for awhile, recently we have seen the introduction of novel new nutrients which are research proven to increase testosterone levels such as various forms of aromatase inhibitors such as pZole seen in the supplement Triazole, which reduces estrogen and causes a rise in testosterone, as well as D - Aspartic Acid (Testforce 2) and those based around the Prolensis herb (Tropinol).

The artificial food coloring Red No. 3 has yet to be banned — despite its purported role in causing thousands of cases of thyroid cancer.

Like this summer's other slapstick cause célèbre, «Pineapple Express,» it's a comedy with as high or higher a body count as the movies it purports to be parodying, and the problem isn't the violence per se but rather the fact that neither movie ever finds a satisfactory balance between tongue - in - cheek and guts - in - hand.

They act as if there were no underlying cause for the often - unsound educational practices, or frequently uneven teaching capacity that exist within our schools They confuse these symptoms of the problem with the problem itself, which is that our public schools have been persistently under - resourced, under - supported, and undermined for decades, including by many of the same people that now purport to «fix» them.»

Last week, Democratic Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado, who purports to be a «a progressive,» called Diane Ravitch an «evil woman» and compared her to the Koch Brothers tweeting, «Can't think of anybody else who has caused more harm to public schools, except maybe Koch brothers.»

For the Alabama teachers who are eligible, they are (after a staggered period of time) to be primarily evaluated (i.e., for up to 45 % of a teacher's total evaluation score) on the extent to which they purportedly cause student growth in achievement, with student growth being defined as the teachers» purported impacts on «[t] he change in achievement for an individual student between two or more points in time.»

VW has no excuse for faking emission data, but the purported double - digit billion - dollar damages seem blown out of proportion in relation to the Ford / Firestone tire blowouts, the Chrysler / Jeep fires, and the GM ignition switch disaster, which caused hundreds of fatalities and cost the culprits mere millions.

«Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively,» Scalia wrote.

«In tearing down similar faulty research,» the ESA say, «the U.S. Supreme Court specifically ruled that «psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively.»

The data has been massaged to make them fit the models, but then the new figure are completely incompatible with the effects of aerosols which it is purported are causing global dimming.

In amongst the multimedia examples in the column was one from Teddy TV titled «Trend and variation» — purporting to teach the viewer the difference between trend («an average or general tendency of a series of data points to move in a certain direction over time, represented by a line or curve on a graph») and variation («common cause variation is also known as «noise» or «natural patterns,»» the squiggles on a graph).

I can remember reading studies that purported to show that higher UV radiation from ozone depletion was causing frogs to disappear, this despite the fact that the experiments amounted to the same increased UV exposure as relocating the frogs about 50 miles south would have.

Based on a series of columns written for the National Post (a newspaper that gives a tremendous amount of space to climate change deniers), the book purported to highlight research that dissented from the scientific consensus that climate change, caused by human activity, is a severe threat to the planet.

In his paper «Unhealthy Exaggeration: The WHO report on climate change,» Goklany writes: «In the run - up to the UN climate summit in September 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released, with much fanfare, a study that purported to show that global warming will exacerbate undernutrition (hunger), malaria, dengue, excessive heat and coastal flooding and thereby cause 250,000 additional deaths annually between 2030 and 2050.

This argument notes that the correlation is too good to support CO2 causing temp because CO2 is only one of many purported temperature drivers under AGW, so it supports the (reverse) temp causes CO2 hypothesis, in which case AGW is completely false.

It is clear that half of Congress is still completely in the dark about the dominant cause of the warming (or purport to be) and its effects and what three times more emissions will do to the climate by 2100, hence the need for a reminder especially about the connection to emissions.

You can pick any number of criteria that purport to show that CO2 causes global warming, but that is nothing more than the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy.

There exists a particular science experiment that is done within primary, middle and secondary schools that purports to prove that there actually is a carbon dioxide and water vapor caused «greenhouse effect» in the greater atmosphere that is causing global warming.

The article starts by making this statement, «There exists a particular science experiment that is done within primary, middle and secondary schools that purports to prove that there actually is a carbon dioxide and water vapor caused «greenhouse effect» in the greater atmosphere that is causing global warming.»

The Guardian purports to be «bemused» at the idea and is indifferent to the disclosure of Jeff Id's personal information, presumably on grounds similar to those proffered by David Leigh in relation to his phone hacking (where the Guardian apparently condoned illegal conduct if it believed the cause to be virtuous or if they disapproved of the target.)

It purports to show the economic damage that one ton of carbon dioxide emitted in a given year will cause over the next 300 years.

Economic actions over purported climate trends are causing an increasing political / financial row: Airline industry split widens over EU carbon «tax» row

The cost blows away the purported healthcare costs supposedly caused by coal generation.