Sentences with phrase «undermine facts and evidence»

Not exact matches

In response to the first study, May Berenbaum, head of entomology at the University of Illinois, noted to The Boston Globe that there's been «no evidence of neonicotinoids in commercially available high fructose corn syrup» and that fact «undermines the premise of bees being exposed to pesticides through the food provided by beekeepers.»

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

The UCS report cited several examples of Wall Street Journal or Fox News contributors dismissing climate science, disparaging or mocking climate scientists and cherry - picking scientific evidence to undermine the fact that most scientists agree that global warming is occurring and is driven by human activity.

While it may seem like stating the obvious, the fact is expert evidence can be undermined if the expert's approach to preparing and writing a report is sloppy, or oral testimony is not argued effectively under examination.

Razi Mireskandari, partner at Simons Muirhead and Burton, says: «The lessons from this are that if you know who the publisher of the story is likely to be then you need to tell the court, there needs to be a genuine reason for a super-injunction, the person who is complaining needs to give first hand evidence to the court, and if you are bringing a privacy argument then the fact your finances will be affected undermines your argument.»