The researchers suspect that great white sharks — a protected species — are to blame, based on identifiable tooth fragments, telltale half-moon tooth punctures or distinctive scratches in up to 25 percent of bitten otters, Mr. Hatfield said.
Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L.A., said it's standard practice for mayors to take credit or reap blame based on their cities' economic fortunes.
But that officer was never interviewed by the Army's investigators, and so was blamed based on the comments of others.
"They can't be blamed, based on their past data, for getting it wrong," said Fiona Hill, a Brookings Institution scholar who is studying the role of public opinion in Russian politics.
Others blame Vodou based on Eugene's Haitian heritage.
People who were transactional Chavistas blame Maduro based on feeling that the policies he's implemented have made him ineffective.
Director Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters the assessment that Syrian government warplanes were to blame was based on several factors such as the type of aircraft, including Sukhoi 22 jets, that carried out the raid.
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple takes it a step further, noting that the Cain campaign has blamed Perry based on pure, unsourced speculation, which means that they're not willing to hew to the same standards as they've demanded from Politico.
Thus, studies "blaming" IL-6 based on statistical analyses or cell culture at high IL-6 concentrations could be partially biased by the mentioned intrinsic drawbacks.
For teenagers, Simon Mayo's first YA novel, Blame (Random House), is based on an intriguing concept of "heritage crime": the sins of parents are visited on children, who are imprisoned for their family's failings.
The traditional medical approach to error and perceived underperformance has been to "name, shame and blame", which is based on the perception that medical mistakes should not be made, and are indicative of personal and professional failure [10, 30, 63].
