The firm got its start uncovering patent-busting prior art for defendants in high-stakes patent infringement suits, where it quickly earned a reputation for finding invalidating prior art in hidden corners of the globe that Google search could never reach — an unpublished Korean-language PhD dissertation, a rural Norwegian library, even in a New York City pawn shop.
Badrick et al. suggest this finding invalidates our study.
This finding invalidates the assumption that less exposure of roe deer to infected midge bites explains the almost complete absence of seroconversion against BTV-8 in this species.
The delusional entrepreneur will procrastinate finding that invalidating data for as long as possible, and then still be dismissive of the results.
Recommendations to address these media challenges are many and include describing scientific roadblocks and the possibility of findings being invalidated by further studies [ 30]; encouraging reporters to consult independent sources of information about the implications of scientific advances [ 41]; and encouraging researchers to disclose conflicts-of-interest to reporters [ 21, 22].
These findings also invalidate use of ergosterol as an indicator of biomass of certain fungal taxa (e.g., Glomeromycota).
In fact, our findings partly invalidate a statement that we made in a previous study [ 2] that the injection of contrast material does not influence the distribution of CT numbers in ALI; this statement is true in healthy volunteers but it does not apply to patients with ALI.
Finally, the study is limited by the small sample size, although the findings are not invalidated by this since qualitative research seeks theoretical rather than statistical generalizability [ 41].
One of the justices in attendance also said that this evidence invalidated the findings of the jury in the first trial, as the jury had heard testimony that the water shortage resulted from the poor condition of the ship, brought on by unforeseen maritime conditions, rather than from errors committed by its captain.
Some courts have invalidated such clauses by finding inequality of bargaining power or unconscionability in the contract.
This finding does not invalidate Wagner and Krall's work, but it demonstrates that we cannot generalize Wagner and Krall's result – derived for a one-dimensional fitness landscape – to higher dimensions.
