The Rorschachers simply harbor a "romantic" devotion to the test's efficacy, Wood says, one based on "an uncritical, even gullible, acceptance of ridiculous claims that the Rorschach is like a medical test, a sort of brain scan".
To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical, especially in the context of the U.S. media's supine acceptance of administration claims relating to national security.
Decisions by IQWiG and G-BA were analysed and compared regarding their acceptance of those claims.
I studied how distortions of the persuasive aspect of social citation may result in broad acceptance of unfounded claims as fact.
People in the lowest SES post code area of Playford were slightly more inclined to challenge the validity of the claims in the newspaper report than in the other areas, while in Burnside, the highest SES post code area, acceptance of the claims was almost universal.
As it concerns our understanding of the evolution of microbial genomes, acceptance of such claims about universal trees upon which all of life's events can be mapped -- or worse, belief in their truth [ 2] -- is more likely to impair progress in understanding early evolution than to promote it (for the evolution of multicellular life, trees are fine).
Where we took issue with Aspinwall and Tedeschi was mainly with their uncritical acceptance of the claims made in the literature, which we have shown to be biased in publication of positive findings, regardless of the quality of studies, biased in its portrayal of findings in subsequent publications, and exclusion of null and negative findings.
Here, too, we appear to be failing, both at the level of individual science classes and programmatically in the science core, given the ineffectiveness of these courses to either improve students' scientific knowledge or mitigate their acceptance of pseudoscientific claims (Walker et al., 2002; Johnson and Pigliucci, 2004; Impey et al., 2011; Carmel and Yezierski, 2013).
This concordance in the acceptance of pain claims may be explained in part by the fact that patient-assessed core symptoms of a disease such as pain are well-accepted primary and secondary efficacy endpoints in registration trials, according to the EMA reflection paper on HRQOL measures [[ 14]].
But despite widespread acceptance of this claim, there is virtually no evidence that it's true.
