So what I do, and I hope others do as well, is to think about policy issues both ways, and try to "bracket" things in a way that leads to reasonably secure conclusions.
Numbers were too small, and the variation in infection rates too great, to draw secure conclusions from the paediatric data (figure 1F).
The only secure conclusion is that nothing digital is secure, certainly nothing in the realm of government.
However, relatively few patients have been included in randomized trials, indicating a need for more studies to secure valid conclusions.
"My view is that the people of Puerto Rico should be able to express an opinion on this issue, and if they decide they would like to be a state, I will help in the effort in Washington to secure that conclusion," he said, as he shopped for fruit in a market here before offering brief remarks to a small crowd gathered in a plaza.
For Kant, dogmatic rationalism fails to secure the conclusion that moral obligations have unconditional authority over us (Kant G, 4: 441).
The comparative judgment is enough to secure Socrates' conclusion: because the philosopher is a better judge than the others, the philosopher's judgment has a better claim on the truth.
The large sample size secures that the conclusions drawn from the statistical analyses are reliable and cannot have been caused by random effects.
Together, the electrophysiological and binding experiments would allow the authors to be more secure in their conclusions, which at this point are more speculative than presented in the manuscript.
Going further, he warned that ministerial control would also jeopardise the rigour scientific research, as 'a keen and energetic minister... would constantly be tempted to endeavour in various ways to secure that the conclusions reached by organised work under any scientific body... should not suggest that his administrative policy might require alteration' [ 6].
