At this point, evidence in an email from Verstraeten, the lead investigator, written to a colleague outside of the CDC (obtained by the authors via the US Freedom of Information Act of 1950 as amended), suggests that Verstraeten could have been receiving pressure within the CDC to apply unsound statistical methods to deny a causal relationship between Thimerosal and autism.
Colonel Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
(He did say that Verizon no longer wanted to do the I.P.s' billing and collecting, or to have its good name sullied by the few whose methods were unsound).
"THEY told me," Martin Sheen's Willard says to Marlon Brando's Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now," at the end of a long journey up the river, "that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound".
Captain Willard: They told me, that you had gone totally insane and uh, that your methods were unsound.
There would also be no need for the environmentally unsound and politically unpopular method of "fracking" for shale gas.
Indeed, more than 40 experts in breast health care have severely criticized these methods as 'scientifically unsound' [ 8].
Controlling wolves by killing them or by the use of non-lethal sterilisation techniques is biologically unsound as a long-term method for reducing wolf populations and protecting hoofed animals (ungulates) from predation.
The failure to define outcome measures on how accurately a weight estimation method must perform is methodologically unsound, however.
We are aware, however, of a growing body of academic criticism of the serious limitations and unsound conclusions that may be drawn from using these methods.You also note that, "not to be outdone", the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) "has come up with a rival measure, Total Shareholder Returns (TSR)." It is wrong to attribute this measure to BCG.
