Ms. Hammer said that gun-owning parents had complained to her for many years about pediatricians' inquiries, which she believes are ineffective at preventing gun injuries.
In the worst case, we can be misled into believing that ineffective treatments are worth using; more commonly we are misled about the relative merits of competing treatments, exposing patients to inferior ones.
The bottom-line here is that QEII which we believe is ineffective anyway was unnecessary, especially when the ball and chain of fiscal policy is under attack.
"There are a variety of unknowns, they include amongst others: can they physically get the material in place and get it to stay there without disturbing the existing sediment?" Mr. Weisberg, who left a technical advisory committee for the project because he believed it was ineffective, said more scientific review was necessary before the E.P.A. proceeded.
Benzodiazepines are sometimes used for obsessive compulsive disorder, although they are generally believed to be ineffective for this indication; effectiveness was, however, found in one small study.
When excluding the WD repeat sequences, RIP inactivated NWDp1 and NWDp2 pseudogene sequences are about 80% identical, corresponding to the threshold level beyond which RIP is believed to become ineffective [26].
Thirty-eight percent believed it was ineffective and 22% reported lacking confidence in their ability to discuss smoking cessation with their patients.
Pragmatically, they believed it would be ineffective.
Of these students, 75% believed it to be ineffective while 25% reported personal reasons (e.g. embarrassment) for their response.
In summary, we hypothesized that where legal recourse is believed to be an ineffective or an otherwise unreasonable strategy of action, parents appraise violent behaviour as reasonable responses to conflict or threatening situations in contexts bereft of formal social control rather than as indicative of trait-based predispositions.
