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.
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.
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.
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.
Even so, in early October 2008 Irish officials were insisting to the US embassy that they did not foresee any need for a government bailout of the banks and blamed "herd mentality" based on "rumour and innuendo" for creating the need for the blanket guarantee of deposits.
People are often hired and fired, blamed and liked based on things as subjective and intangible as interpersonal relations.
