Sentences with phrase «sketchy evidence»

Further, they may forecast catastrophic futures about the relationship, sometimes based only on sketchy evidence.

And some of the very people who accept this evidence, sparse evidence, low resolution evidence, are far more skeptical of evidence that is spatially denser and higher resolution than they are of sketchy evidence.

But fossilized tracks are sketchy evidence at best.

I think it's presumptuous for us to think that we can determine their diet on such sketchy evidence and even arrogant if we insist on specific evolutionary dogma the way my molecular cell biology professor does.

[xiii] There is some sketchy evidence of hasty reorganisations of leadership in the police and internal security in the closing stages of President Kibaki's term [xiv] and these do not exude confidence in the police's ability to arbitrate independently if Kenyatta were to claim (however spuriously) that groups connected with CORD a threat to the peace of election day.

His doubts and fears go much deeper than just sketchy evidence, he had something nagging at his conscientiousness that was an echo his days in Seminary.

Several skeptical researchers and authors have been hammering away at the foundations of the foodie cause, arguing that everything Pollan and his acolytes stand for — from the dangers of GMO foods to the benefits of local farming — is based on sketchy evidence at best, and at worst is just plain wrong.

Not exact matches

Bragging might feel sketchy, but there's increasing evidence to support banging your own gong in a professional context.

The Steele dossier, per Schiff, was used as supporting evidence to further establish that this trip was sketchy.

A lot of this evidence, when examined alone could be compelling but a lot of it is very sketchy.

I would call that sketchy hearsay at best... not «eye witness» evidence.

Evidence is sketchy and so we must be careful when drawing conclusions.

There is no evidence in the state's latest sketchy proposal that promised changes will meet the needs of real people and communities.

However, Zika's early history remains sketchy, partly because most evidence of its spread comes from blood serum surveys that flagged active antibodies in people.

Based on sketchy fossil evidence, some anthropologists argue that Neanderthals could make limited vocalizations but that they lacked the full range of modern humans; in particular, they were probably limited in the vowel sounds they could produce.

But the map is sketchy, owing to the lack of older evidence.

But until now the evidence was «sketchy,» Turgeon noted.

Shelter statistics from those days are sketchy, but our best guess from the available evidence is that the situation for homeless pets reached a crisis point around 1970 due to their massive numbers.

Again though, the evidence that the Little Ice Age advances were as synchronous worldwide as the current glacier retreats are today is sketchy.

Isn't it rather the case that famous papers turn out to be questionable, and the evidence is all much sketchier than we are generally led to believe?

I've often said that the evidence for actual periodic (or even pseudoperiodic) behavior in ocean cycles is sketchy at best.

The above illustration depicts, in a very abbreviated and sketchy form, that as the scientific evidence of the threat from human - induced climate change became stronger over a 40 - year period and as the US political opposition to climate change policies successfully fought to prevent the adoption of robust US climate policies, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 rose from below 320 ppm (parts per million) to current levels of over 400 ppm.

Yeah, the evidence is sketchy.

In most jurisdictions courts are generous to the state and police, so won't agree to dismiss charges on that basis unless the evidence is extremely sketchy or virtually nonexistent.