Sentences with phrase «uses dubious»

So does this advance the notion that Wikipedia is unreliable because it uses dubious sources, or the notion that it is reliable because it uses authoritative sources?

In another discipline, a person uses dubious data, he games the system and self - audits in order to hide that for a number of years.

They believe some heads of schools are using dubious means to rake in money and have implored the Education Ministry to sanitise the system.

But do not assume that proper training is a guarantee that therapists will not use dubious analytical techniques.

Is it the purpose of Ofsted to use dubious evidence to pronounce schools inadequate so that they are forced to become academies?

Holder, using dubious data, argues that the exit of black children from failing schools would «impede the desegregation process» in Louisiana.

The testimony seems to be nothing more than an ill - fated assault on credit counseling using dubious numbers and calculations in an effort to simply line the pockets of TASC member companies through misdirection and falsehoods.

The same techniques are also accepted as standard currency of the adversary process itself, in which the law takes such pride, which makes it particularly absurd to propose defining it as unlawful racketeering to «use dubious information to advance a cause.»

All processed using dubious data on energy - sapping supercomputers at enormous cost to the environment and the tax payer.

At times, Nixon is willing to use dubious sources to support his claims, including hearsay cited in blog posts.

«Yes lets use dubious paleo estimates to falsify estimates from the relatively reliable instrumental record, and also lets forget that climate sensitivity is state dependent»

Judith Curry wrote: «Yes lets use dubious paleo estimates to falsify estimates from the relatively reliable instrumental record, and also lets forget that climate sensitivity is state dependent.»

No snark here, but which graph would you cite that has a degree of authority, i.e one not manufactured on wood for trees using dubious end points and data.

JC comment: Yes lets use dubious paleo estimates to falsify estimates from the relatively reliable instrumental record, and also lets forget that climate sensitivity is state dependent.

Trouble is that these are usually dismissed as «anecdotal» whilst computer models using dubious data are considered sciemtific and factual.

Attribution issues are compounded when using dubious sources such as those we have discussed, especially when extensive passages are used.

I had checked out the online resume companies prior and looking at the reviews by some duped folks who had used these dubious companies was a key reason why I decided to use a professional like yourself.

Most measures had no evidence that they had undergone any sort of psychometric evaluation although a small number of researchers had attempted to evaluate some measurement properties but used dubious methods or the property being assessed fell below suitable quality thresholds as determined by Terwee et al. 12 In addition, some authors referenced that their measure had established psychometric properties but then modified the scale or used it with a completely different population without re-examining the properties in the revised scale.

Not exact matches

The use of dubious billion - dollar lawsuits to apply pressure on Alfa's partners — filed in remote regions of Russia by obscure private shareholders whose interests somehow overlapped perfectly with Alfa's — became a favorite calling card.

The New York Times reported last weekend that Republicans were likely to use the memo to contend that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein acted improperly in approving an application to extend surveillance of Page that was partly based on dubious research funded by Democratic organizations.

Green makes it clear that they're not in the same dubious business as the so - called «buy - here, pay - here» used - car dealers that were the subject of one of comedian John Oliver's recent televised rants — and definitely not in the same line of work as payday loan operators.

Using so - called «exploding termsheets» to pre-empt other offers is not uncommon in the VC world, though even there it's considered a slightly dubious tactic.

Meanwhile Nix himself was suspended as CEO by CA last month, following a Channel 4 News investigation broadcast video footage of Nix talking to an undercover reporter and appearing to suggest the firm uses a range of dubious tactics, including front companies and subcontractors to secretly engage in political campaigns.

Initially, they were a bit dubious about using AdWords to grow their business, but they told me that as long as we could produce leads through AdWords at the same price as their current channels, they were willing to give it a shot.

We've already voiced concerns about the Obama administration's use of drones and its dubious claims about the program.

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

Be it for my incessant posting of political material on Facebook, my regular morning explosions of rage at the Today Programme on Twitter or my shameless use of social media for self - promotion and dubious jokes.

If you don't use the right language or go along with the theology that's taught there, then you are considered dubious.

Further, using «they» is an acknowledgment that the insistence on «he» as the normative personal pronoun was what constituted the original attack on the language, made on the dubious grounds of strengthening some «natural order.»

Yet The Nation still felt constrained to use quotation marks in alluding to black «crime» and the «deterioration» of the black family, as if these were phenomena of dubious factuality.

The church clings to its condemnation of any homosexual activity, justifying itself by means of dubious Biblical warrants of a sort it would be ashamed to use on other issues.

Moreover, the word Elohim is of dubious origin and meaning; quite probably it denotes not the sky in particular but strength in general; variously translated in our English Versions, it is used in the Bible of household gods, (Judges 17:5; Genesis 31:19, 32.)

I'd agree that use of the word «gay» is dubious, as that primarily refers to a sexual orientation or identity, not to behaviour.

These cookies are the closest to «cookies» I've ever had while cooking GF without using a bunch of dubious gums and weird other substitutes.

Beyond the realms of the German Purity Law, brewers are using weird and wonderful ingredients which, despite their dubious nature, are...

Cheesecake without cheese always sounds a bit dubious, but by using coconut butter this «cheesecake» tastes amazing.

It may look dubious, but believe me, it's super delicious and a nice variation for the one you're used to!

Sometimes, these can be buzzwords used by companies to lure you into paying higher prices for artisanal goodies of dubious quality.

maybe wenger should have bought so and so over so and so, maybe he could of used this formation rather than that formation but overall I don't think we couldn't of done much better unless we gave in the «sugar daddy» way of things with the shady usmanov a Russian oligarch notorious for involvement in dubious politics and business.

From one where players were content to miss call - ups, using the excuse of dubious injuries for justification to a situation where the opposite was true.

They may use a 10 - or 20 - unit bet for most plays, but then make 100 - unit «locks» to inflate their results or as a dubious attempt to get back to even on the season for advertising purposes.

Scottish side East Stirlingshire have the dubious honour of fielding the most goalkeepers in one game, using four different keepers in a match against Albion Rovers.

There's «whataboutery» which is an effective part of political disinformation and is used to elide all kinds of unethical or dubious activity.

I know jewelers use it for scrapes and such, but I was always dubious, otherwise why would they put all the warnings on the label?

And Dr. Fitzpatrick, whose invention of this cream earned him the dubious honour of being named Allure magazine's «physician who has most influenced beauty,» now works with a supplier that uses foreskin fibroblast to make injectable collagen.

While UN missions come and go, and non-engagement with the Assad regime may be of dubious use, at least the rebels are talking to each other.

Why should parents who move home, fake religion, bribe schools or use any of the other dubious methods employed to ensure children get into a good state school be rewarded just because they have not gone down the route of the «evil» private schools?

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been dubious about legalizing weed beyond limited medical use of non-smokeable forms.

It's calling into question Labour's choice of Justice spokesman, using one example from Khan's history of dubious associations (including others with people who were not his clients), and seemingly inconsistent accounts relating to them.

And let's insist the money is used for our infrastructure immediately and not shared on dubious bore holes by the National Assembly!