Empirical information that reaches the highest EB status should be trusted more in action-oriented decisions than empirical information that does not satisfy the criteria of evidence.
Empirical information per se is necessary to give concrete and context-specific reality to ethical principles.
Without bringing in additional empirical information, I am not in a position to exclude viewing the current informant as suspect because of his affinities with the previous one.
Our three recommendations derive from the science, including logical inferences based on empirical information about the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of specific past policy approaches.
We suffer from the loss of facts — a body of empirical information that American citizens can accept as a common starting point for public debate.
The conversation was started by Pete Seeger's ruminations on whether "an infinite increase in empirical information is a good thing".
There is a huge amount of empirical information on how alloying affects heat-treatment conditions, microstructures, and properties.
Beyond suspicions about rounding up the usual suspects, how do we know whether generalizations are based on sound empirical information or are a jumble of pop culture shorthand and bad science?
There is little empirical information on whether people saved or spent their tax rebates, and it is possible that the summer spending spree stemmed more from low interest rates than lower taxes.
Sam Zarifi, director of Amnesty International's operations in Asia, said the cables had provided valuable "empirical information" on abuses in several countries.
Here possible empirical information might cause all citizens to approve the law.
