The owners of the Mets suffered dual setbacks Monday when a federal judge ruled that they must pay millions of dollars to the victims of Bernard L. Madoff's fraud and go to trial on the gravest accusation against them: that they blinded themselves to evidence that Madoff might have been up to no good during their many years of profitable investing with him.
The process of study selection, as well as of data extraction and risk of bias assessment, was not performed blinded, since scientific evidence does not strongly recommend masked assessment [25].
This study contributes objective, double-blinded evidence that pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation can be therapeutic for gait freezing in Parkinson's disease.
This study provides objective, double-blinded evidence that in a specific subgroup of Parkinsonian patients, stimulation of a caudal pedunculopontine nucleus region selectively improves gait freezing but not background deficits in step length.
Blinding to authors, institution or journal title was not done, given the contradictory evidence relating blinded reviewing and bias [ 10]; additionally, two reviewers (JG and SC) were very familiar with the literature.
We want good things to happen to good people and this desire blinds us to evidence to the contrary.
Picard had accused Wilpon and Katz of illicitly profiting from investing with Madoff while acting willfully blind to evidence of his fraud.
Maddox pointed to Gellhorn's divorces, abortions, and suicide (by a poison pill, when she was eighty-nine, ill, and nearly blind) as evidence of a miserable person who "never felt deep love".
A federal trial, one that would have explored whether Mr. Wilpon and Mr. Katz had been "willfully blind" to evidence of Mr. Madoff's fraud, was set to start Monday morning with jury selection.
The accounts may well not factor much in the ultimate resolution of the case, as a federal judge decides whether the men were "willfully blind" to evidence Madoff might have been a fraud during their history of investing with him.
You go blind to evidence that contradicts your group's moral consensus, and you become enraged at teammates who suggest that the other side is not entirely bad (as New Jersey's governor, Chris Christie, is now finding out).
