Still, impatience with all methods except those of natural science is a poor basis on which to identify those exceptions.
The bias towards co-investors on measures of ability is weaker: investors with degrees from the best universities are just 9% more likely to get together.Rapport is a poor basis for selecting partners.
Social obligation is a poor basis for a general condemnation of suicide because it can just as easily be used to justify, and even promote, suicide in certain circumstances.This problem is avoided by another class of arguments against suicide based on the axiom that there is an intrinsic value to all human life, and that suicide is therefore wrong.
Moscow has behaved badly and Ukrainians are suffering as a result, but such humanitarian considerations, though real, are a poor basis for issuing military commitments.
The scientists I know have the same personality quirks as people in any other profession.The unemotional Spock was the Enterprise's chief science officer, but science fiction is a poor basis for characterizing all scientists.
Here we demonstrate that the hybridization intensity of genomic DNA is a poor basis on which to select unbiased probes on Affymetrix expression arrays for studies of comparative transcriptomics, and that doing so produces spurious results.
As a generality, a relatively small change in an animal model is a poor basis for the development of a therapeutic programme, whereas large improvements in multiple measures provide more confidence.
For this to happen, though, we must recognize that selfishness (even of the enlightened sort) is ultimately a poor basis for morality and introduce a new philosophy based on the values of compassion, aesthetic sensibility and humaneness (ren) instead.
The term "ethnic Hungarian" is convenient journalistic shorthand but a poor basis for legislation.
That is a desperately poor basis for sound financial planning.
