Sentences with phrase «trial than a scientific»

But the fact that they all turn out bad makes the case appear more suited for an adversarial trial than a scientific statement.

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That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

As Scientific American reported earlier this year, more than half of the current cancer clinical trials do incorporate some form of immunotherapy but still oncologists are often only in the early stages of understanding how to use such treatment on a larger scale.

Thus, although it is common for patients to be willing to «do anything» to try to save their vision, it is important for the scientific community to judge any new treatment carefully — and show it to be of more benefit than harm — before offering such treatments to patients outside the context of a controlled clinical trial.

For fasting to be more than a weight - loss fad, greater scientific rigor is needed from interventional trials than is found in the literature.

Various on - line dating sites claim that their methods for pairing individuals produce more frequent, higher quality, or longer lasting marriages, but the evidence underlying the claims to date has not met conventional standards of scientific evidence including: (i) sufficient methodological details to permit independent replication; (ii) open and shared data to permit a verification of analyses; (iii) the presentation of evidence through peer - reviewed journals rather than through Internet postings and blogs; (iv) data collection free of artifacts, such as expectancy effects, placebo effects, and confirmatory biases by investigators; and (v) randomized clinical trials (3, 9).

The USDA in 1910 was trying to be scientific, but despite having gained a basic understanding of the roles of microbes and viruses, the USDA scientists still understood disease transmission only slightly better than the judges at witch trials.

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He says the RACGP has called for a rigorous trial subject to academic and scientific evaluation, rather than rushing into a phased roll - out, and says the Government's plans for evaluating the HCH implementation are still being developed.

The RACGP has called for a rigorous trial subject to academic and scientific evaluation, rather than rushing into a phased rollout.