Inquests have no powers to compel witnesses to appear if the witness is outside the court's jurisdiction, although the soldiers apparently volunteered after Pizzarello declared that the inquest would be "meaningless" without their evidence.
It's a conundrum: if you believe a conspiracy, you ally yourself with the superstitious and the paranoid, for whom no statement is as trustworthy as the wildest speculation, and evidence is meaningless unless they can bite it to see if it's real.
If university rape complaint judgments may seem meaningless, given shifting standards of evidence and non-transparency about possible outcomes, it's because they are.
When a prosecutor is personally convinced the defendant is guilty, it can take enormous self-discipline to turn over evidence she thinks is meaningless when she knows the defense could use that evidence to plant doubt in jurors' minds.
The findings from these studies provide compelling evidence that dreaming is not meaningless "noise" but rather a coherent and sophisticated mode of psychological functioning.
We don't try to eliminate race (despite evidence that the construct is meaningless, at best, or even invented).
There is no bright line at which a particular piece of statistical evidence goes from being meaningful to meaningless.
If you want to criticise China Swimming, please show us the evidence, facts, figures and statistics, stop meaningless suspicion and insults".
Supporting evidence for 'community engagement', for example, is meaningless unless the intended concept is specified.
Dr. Schwenk finds the new mouth glands intriguing, but he considers most of the evidence for venom in the study to be "meaningless, irrelevant, incorrect or falsely misleading".
