Sentences with phrase «spurious evidence»

The protection of children should always be society's first priority but individuals should avoid making accusations based on spurious evidence.

To find otherwise would be to leave any decision by the tribunal, based on the most spurious evidence, beyond the scope of the courts» review.»

The Application of Size - Robust Trend Statistics to Global - Warming Temperature Series Thomas B. Fomby and Timothy J. Vogelsang Journal of Climate 2002; 15: 117 - 123 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0442%282002%29015%3C0117%3ATAOSRT%3E2.0.CO%3B2... recent studies have pointed out that strong serial correlation (or a unit root) in global temperature data could, in theory, generate spurious evidence of a significant positive trend... A serial - correlation — robust trend test recently was proposed that controls for the possibility of spurious evidence due to strong serial correlation....

This is not the first time that the House Science Committee has used spurious evidence to dispute the existence of human - driven climate change.

Practically it will be a huge inconvenience to retailers, will bolster the black market and it is quite clearly based on spurious evidence.

Not exact matches

I don't mind them using their freedom of speech to lobby others to adopt their view, but constantly proposing spurious legislation with absolutely nothing concrete to back it up should be view the same way frivolous lawsuits are and those who can not give any evidence to their claims should be penalized for wasting everyone else's time.

Michael Walzer calls this stance «realism,» emphasizing by the quotes that its claim to self - evidence is spurious.

John Donvan doesn't cite any study and it seems spurious at best without some kind of evidence.

They also often lead to spurious claims and bogus evidence.

There is no evidence of anyone worrying about spurious belief anywhere in the old testament.

The judgment does not mean that vaccines can be blamed for illness without scientific evidence, or that spurious cases can win when the scientific evidence is against them, says Stein.

«It's all totally spurious but there's evidence that it's working because the average Scot is concerned about these things.

It does not matter how many times one adduces cogent and credible facts and evidence to disprove the spurious personal attacks and character, honour and integrity assassinations.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus — related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

By producing a multitude of spurious studies purportedly showing that MSG is safe as a food additive they can say with impunity, «The weight of the scientific evidence demonstrates that MSG is safe for human consumption»».

However, the report they filed had no evidence of a registry number or status for its trademark and the accusations of trademark violation were proven to be spurious.

Yet they continue to push their claim by ignoring the evidence and diverting attention with new specious and spurious claims.

In absence of that the statistical evidence must be very much stronger because the number of combinations to test is so large that it results easily to spurious conclusions.

«Adjustments» To Create Spurious Sea Level Rise Have Now Infected The PSMSL Tide Gauge Data In a new paper published in Earth Systems and Environment this month, Australian scientists Dr. Albert Parker and Dr. Clifford Ollier uncover evidence that Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) overseers appear to have been engaging in the «highly questionable» -LSB-...]

Benestad's 2004 article comment (and Schmidt's 2009 article) provide clear evidence that McKitrick's analyses yield spurious correlations; Schmidt's latest comment summarizes the state of play:

But more relevant for the current discussion is more direct evidence of spurious correlation.

We show evidence that MSUs on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's satellites (NOAA - 12 and − 14, 1990 — 2001 +) contain spurious warming, especially noticeable in three of the four satellite datasets.

Anyway, there is so much documented evidence of spurious shifts and trends in hydrological variables in the reanalyses (and even in temperature and wind) that I would not place any more store in trends from them than I would in a Ouija board.

Perhaps the evidence is spurious.

Thus, we interpret the increase of short duration storms as further evidence for a spurious increase in Atlantic tropical storm counts since the late - 19th Century.

Look over the review decision again and if your evidence was rejected for spurious or non-nonsensical reasons, you may want to consider appealing it.

But in a legal context, it's often rational to conclude that when a legally significant event is followed by a result, that result probably flowed from the event.177 For example, a criminal defendant could claim her medication prevented her guilty plea from being knowingly and voluntarily made.178 It sounds reasonable, but absent evidence that the medication affected the defendant's cognitive function, it's spurious.

Expert evidence of such abuse appears to be accepted no matter how spurious or if it is later discredited.