Mr. McAteer disputed that assessment in a telephone interview, and said that some of the report's conclusions "simply don't make any sense," like the assertion that the high levels of natural gas in the mine after the explosion were evidence that a big gas infusion was the cause.
The review also found that fewer than a third of the stops and frisks had occurred because the police were looking for a particular suspect, countering the mayor's assertion that the high rate at which blacks and Hispanics were stopped was justified by the rate that they were identified as suspects.
Bratton's assertion that the high number of killings was an anomaly has been largely borne out as the homicide rate has fallen significantly in recent months.
Furthermore, we found that baseline tuberculin skin test positivity rates were low (7%) among newly incarcerated inmates, which further supports the assertion that the high rate of TB among prisoners was caused by transmission in the prison setting, rather than by exposure to the disease in the community before incarceration.
There is, however, no evidence to support the assertion that these high rates are a consequence of psychiatrists misdiagnosing serious disorder at extraordinary levels in these populations.
The weakest link in the story, however, may be the assertion that increased productivity would translate to higher wages for rank-and-file workers.
Moore particularly takes exception to VaxGen's assertion that the vaccine triggered higher levels of anti-HIV antibodies in blacks, which would putatively explain why the vaccine worked better in that subgroup.
That support will increase to a cumulative $1 billion by 2016-17 — belying Dirks' assertion that reduced state dollars for higher education was the "new normal," according to H.D. Palmer, state finance department spokesman.
Implicit to our study is the assertion that the detection of high-risk coronary artery disease is clinically important.
Given that adult workers are more likely to be employed and so are more likely to receive benefits from unemployment insurance, the above empirical results are consistent with the assertion that a higher replacement rate makes unemployment acceptable for adult workers, while empirical results on this effect are mixed (Atkinson and Micklewright 1991).
