Sentences with phrase «very flimsy evidence»

We're not convinced by the supposed science of brain training - it's a sector that makes bold claims based on very flimsy evidence - but there's no doubt that spending time learning or practicing useful things is better for you than mindlessly swiping through trivia on Twitter.

The establishment of an early consensus on very flimsy evidence, driven by very forceful personalities, has proved disastrous.

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I think the causal link between working hard and being successful is a very flimsy one — there's very little in the way of empirical evidence to back it up, even Buffet himself talks of winning the «ovarian lottery».

«The evidence in this analysis is too flimsy to warrant getting very excited,» says Thomas Kirkwood, a gerontologist at the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Pielke Jr. has checked in here and seems very concerned with matters of exaggeration, of creating narratives from flimsy evidence or no evidence at all.