Sentence examples for unfavourable evidence from inspiring English sources
To content oneself with favourable evidence is not enough; one must be searching all the time for unfavourable evidence.
Conflicts of interest can distort many stages of the experimental process, from biased experimental design (stacking the deck in favour of desired results), selective sampling (for example testing unrepresentative people) and partial reporting of results (such as burying unfavourable evidence).
Further, it must be possible, if the hypothesis is genuinely scientific, to specify in advance what would count as unfavourable evidence; the circumstances in which the hypothesis needs to be abandoned, or at least modified, must be indicated precisely.
"Frankly, I feel the US Justice Department should come in, confiscate their computers, and do a thorough investigation of at least the last 10 years," said Henry Mosier, a recently retired public defender, who in 2010 threw a Kern County prosecution based on a police sting operation into chaos by uncovering that a detective buried unfavourable evidence in the desert.
First, if the cost-effectiveness of the experimental intervention is highly uncertain, new and unfavourable evidence on health outcomes and costs may lead to the rejection of the experimental intervention.
In UK, the MS disease-modifying drugs were financed at a premium price, but the scheme assumed sliding reduction of the price as soon as unfavourable interim evidence from the CED becomes available.
For diabetes, however, the link was generally unfavourable, despite earlier evidence associating nurse staffing with better care quality.
There was good sensitivity and specificity for all ROIs to distinguish between patients with favourable versus unfavourable recovery as evidenced by the area under the receiver operating curve (ROC).
However, we found evidence of unfavourable trends in body mass index and diabetes that threaten to reverse these trends.
This evidenced that unfavourable climatic conditions for the disease development can be counterbalanced by conditions of high vine growth and associated canopy and cluster features.
Risks associated with those genes became substantive when two unfavourable genotypes were combined, with evidence of biological interaction between them.
