Sentences with phrase «without empirical support»

These results suggest that without valid population - level data, speculations regarding the role of energy intake in the rise in the prevalence of obesity are without empirical support, he said.

Not exact matches

Critics complain that this massive change to American education — one of the most significant shifts ever — was rushed through without any real democratic process or empirical data supporting the value.

Stanford University education professor Martin Carnoy declares his intent to interject a «balanced perspective» in an empirical literature written «mainly by researchers who openly and actively support vouchers» and media that «report results from these analyses without necessary caveats and alternative views.»

Teacher Match and Hanover Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions about teaching and teachers, highly false claims about value - added (without empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above

And without the empirical data to support it, CAGW is just another unproven hypothesis.

Instead, the group weighed in on its area of expertise, saying the proposal «lacks empirical support for its claim that an emergency situation justifies massive, abrupt intervention that will likely cost consumers billions without any clear benefit.»

This is the way that science works (without the interference of politicians): some ideas are supported by empirical evidence and are gradually accepted by the scientific community, while others that lack empirical support are discarded into the dustbin.

Not very likely, since it is without question that this and other climate science empirical evidence does not support, nor validate, the foundational Arrhenius greenhouse global warming theory that dominates the consensus orthodoxy.

Just an old cartoon that attempts to explain the GHE, but which has NO empirical support that I have seen (as I am sure you know, there can be NO science without empirical evidence.

Cases Without Counsel is a qualitative empirical research study consisting of one - on - one interviews with self - represented litigants in divorce, separation, and child custody / support cases.

Empirical evidence supports both the main effect and buffering models of social support in predicting the adjustment of children and adults, with or without chronic disease.