Sentence examples for sham reports from inspiring English sources

Some of the sham reports carry a sheen of officialdom so seemingly credible that they are difficult to ignore.

But in fact this was a sham, reports our correspondent, as its main purpose appears to have been to ferry hundreds of millions of dollars out of Afghanistan.

Although mainstream media reporters were slow to expose Ryan's sham report, other media outlets were responsible and vigilant, interviewing policy experts (some of whom said that Ryan's report misquoted them), examining studies with real data, and identifying serious problems with the Ryan manifesto.

"This report is a sham, this report is a whitewash, this report is a confidence trick dressed up as independent scrutiny and given invisible clothes of reliability," she said.

In the second phase of the study, patients receiving sham acupuncture reported a more significant decrease in pain and symptom severity than those receiving placebo pills for the duration of the trials.

Those trials found that patients who had a real treatment or a sham treatment reported similar benefits, pointing to a placebo effect.

No sham subject reported light-headedness.

Table 3 shows that, under TETRA conditions compared with sham, controls reported significantly higher levels of anxiety only.

Two participants in the moxibustion group and one participant in the sham group reported rubefaction with or without an itching sensation.

The other two studies, which involved 30 patients in the experimental group (SD + active rTMS) and 22 patients in the control group (SD + sham rTMS), reported normally distributed data.

Indeed, the fact that both the acupuncture and sham groups reported significant improvements in the patient's global score and a trend towards a reduction in the pain score suggests that acupuncture may elicit a greater placebo effect.