President Clinton's desire to "save" Social Security might be laudable too, but as Alan Greenspan has pointed out, his plan is based on shaky budget assumptions.
These assumptions are problematic because they are based on shaky evidence, have potentially dangerous effects or should be articulated more carefully.
But others are based on shaky figures that are calculated differently in different countries.
They offer tales of inspiration that we find comforting and satisfying, but they're based on shaky thinking".
The Crown attorney Peter Eccles refuted Sandford's position, saying that it's based on shaky grounds.
An expert writing in the MIT Technology Review argues that the technologies to reduce global warming are based on "shaky" scientific grounds.
Or is it slight, a novelty or built on shaky assumptions of use patterns?
Furthermore, the specific complaints of the correspondents are based on the shakiest of assumptions, not least that there is no foreign sector in the economy that can absorb the impact of changes in government borrowing.
Forecasting is based on assumptions, and technology changes those assumptions," says Mr Khosla.
The question is based on daft assumptions.
