The selective activity, or lack of toxicity, of active compounds in tea extracts is an important aspect to investigate, particularly as the herbal tea industry is less willing to accept evidence of traditional use as an indication of safety [ 32].
Prosecutors and judges too readily accept evidence obtained illegally, such as by torture, giving the police an incentive to seek it that way.
In the case of the DO annotations, curators accept evidence from model organisms as sufficient for forming an association.
Although we cannot discuss how animal studies (as well as other studies) can establish causation, absent epidemiological evidence, if the exposure to which animals are subject is different from its human equivalent, US courts will generally not accept that evidence as being analogue of human exposure and response, as held by the US Supreme Court in General Electric Co. v. Joiner, 522 US 136 (1997).
As a society, we have accepted DNA evidence as a reliable tool both for bringing the guilty to justice and for exonerating the wrongly accused.
In both diagnostic testing and subgroup analyses, prior probability estimates are often unsettling given their inherent uncertainty and subjectivity, but failing to grapple with this tends to bias us towards falsely accepting new evidence as truth.
There are however, questions of validity in accepting this evidence as it is largely based on employer rating of vignettes as part of a survey study [ 41, 50, 52, 74, 76], or else participation in an experimental exercise [ 73, 75, 77, 78].
Fixed features labeled as "homologies" may therefore be difficult to accept as evidence of evolutionary change, because they do not convey the impression that anything is actually happening, or, by extension, has happened.
What do we accept as evidence?
They accept as evidence the same types of sense experience that the rest of us do; and in most circumstances they are attentive, just like the rest of us, to potential errors in the interpretation of sense experience.
