But Dr. McLeroy says his rejection of evolution — "I just don't think it's true or it's ever happened" — is not based on religious grounds.
In practice, the definition of environmental harm and where to set the threshold for significant adverse effects is not based on scientific grounds only.
The scale captured the essence of GY's "residual awareness" in his blind field, which he described as "a feeling of something happening", although the scale points were not based on empirical grounds in the same way as PAS.
The judges added that Mrs Finucane had not shown that the government's decision against holding a public inquiry "was made in bad faith or that it was not based on genuine policy grounds".
Doctors Without Borders, the organization most responsible for fighting Ebola in Africa, agreed with that sentiment in a press release: "Any regulation not based on scientific medical grounds, which would isolate healthy aid workers, will very likely serve as a disincentive to others to combat the epidemic at its source, in West Africa".
"Any regulation not based on scientific medical grounds, which would isolate healthy aid workers, will very likely serve as a disincentive to others to combat the epidemic at its source, in West Africa," said Sophie Delaunay, the U.S. director of Doctors Without Borders, in a press release Monday.
However, the application of the more rigorous Kolmogorov Smirnov test demonstrated that some apparent power-law scaling (as seen from log-log representations) is not based on solid statistical grounds, in real data as well as in the theoretical laws computed, in agreement with previous studies (see e.g. [15]).
In addition, the maximum value itself is not based on reliable scientific grounds.
It was noted that this strategy was not based on any statistical grounds and may be reviewed.
Augean said it appealed the decision because "we believe that the refusal was not based on sound scientific or planning policy grounds".
