Rather than conduct honest research to refute or confirm the criticism, the accuser panders to feelings of fear, confusion and anger, all of which are animated by unexamined beliefs and images within his own mind.
Trudy Turner, helped by Jeffrey Nelson, did an astoundingly good bit of historical research to refute Tierney's and Terence Turner's claims about Neel (in AAA 2002a; see also Turner and Nelson 2004).
A12 The Iraqi government gave a tour of buildings it said were used for peaceful research, seeking to refute United Nations inspectors' claims that the country is rebuilding sites linked to Mr. Hussein's nuclear efforts.
Bankers argue that increased capital requirements will impede lending, though academic research tends to refute that assertion.
What research has yet to refute is the fact that the brain is remarkably malleable, even into late adulthood.
But the latest research is hard to refute: estimates by conservationists, and some officials, put the population at 1,200-1,500.No Indian leader since Mrs Gandhi has shown much interest in protecting the great felines, including the current head of her Congress Party, her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi.
The efforts by tobacco and energy companies to refute research on lung cancer and climate change, respectively, show that such opposition is an occupational hazard for scientists who find connections that may threaten profits.
A group of seven doctors from leading university research hospitals came together to refute Delgado's paper and APR's claims.
Australian cell biologist Professor David Vaux recently published an essay regarding his own attempts to refute research and retract his work from arguably the most influential scientific journal, Nature (Vaux, 2013).
Secondly, the inevitable lag between the publication of research which sparks a controversy and the accumulation of evidence to refute or support that research (which may give rise to subsequent changes in best practice) is particularly problematic for health professionals working on the front line.
Atrazine's major manufacturer, Syngenta AG of Switzerland, now says it will offer studies of its own to refute the frog research, and it continues to challenge many of the agency's findings as being too cautious.
