However, something is amiss, when, in the service of advocating a particular policy, activists and health authorities have to base their claims on a weak body of evidence and ignore a much stronger and more rigorous body of painstakingly accumulated data, which helps put the matter in perspective.
On June 29th the UN finally published the report with its main body of evidence.
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Another study adds to a growing body of evidence centering on chewing gum satiety and cravings.
Economic data released on Wednesday added to a growing body of evidence that America has past the worst of its slowdown.
The new study adds to an increasing body of evidence that the injection of wastewater is correlated to an increase in seismic events.
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Researcher Dr Michelle Miller said the findings added to the growing body of evidence suggesting that sleep duration played a key role in heart health.
And oh by the way, an adequate body of evidence reveals that most others in your position have not fared so well in that planning.
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It comes after a Leeds University study has added to a growing body of evidence about the ability of bacteria to float on air currents.
Those arguments were reopened by the Dead Sea Scrolls, whose discovery 50 years ago provided a huge body of evidence on the history of monotheism.
Professor Jane Wardle, director of Cancer Research UK's health behaviour unit, said there was a growing body of evidence linking obesity with post menopausal breast cancer.
Five hundred experts analysed vast quantities of data and produced what they claim is the first coherent body of evidence about the state of Britain's natural environment.
The good news is that policy experiments carried out by governments, NGOs, academics and international institutions are slowly building up a body of evidence about methods that work.
Thus, there is a disconnect between the best research on predicting heart disease in well-defined populations and the much weaker body of evidence addressing the effect of smoking bans.
"This is especially important now that a growing body of evidence indicates that concentrated gas hydrate accumulations ... such as those in Northern Alaska, can be produced with existing technology, " he said.
But the euro has now been in existence since the start of 1999, with notes and coins circulating since January 2002, so there is an increasing body of evidence based on its experience.
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Dr Whitelaw's work is one part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that understanding inherited epigenetic features may be necessary to work out how animals pass on physical characteristics or susceptibility to disease.
The body of evidence was graded as moderate.
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"This study adds to a growing body of evidence about just how dramatic and tumultuous the Pleistocene climate actually was, " Dr Beth Shapiro, a scientist from Penn State University in the US, told BBC News.
And as a result of that diligence and their analytic capabilities, they were able to track this and continue to build a body of evidence that suggested, circumstantially, that bin Laden was at that compound.
But Franklin exercised his discretion and reviewed the case over a three-week period and concluded "that the entire body of evidence was insufficient to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, " Hagel wrote.
Still, this study builds on a growing body of evidence that when doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, community organizations, and patients themselves work together, seniors are more likely to do a better job caring for themselves.
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The study, which appears in the January 18 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, adds to a growing body of evidence that "prolonged sitting is bad for health, " says Barry Braun, Ph.
For example, there is a growing body of evidence that the years beyond midlife are one of life's most creative, innovative and entrepreneurial periods, and that the older population itself constitutes an undiscovered continent of ingenuity.
Those who have the money obviously have the ability to determine on what basis they will allocate it, and there are no assurances that these factors will change, even if the body of evidence is dramatically improved.
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Yet there is now a strong body of evidence, led by the research of David Dollar, Craig Burnside and Paul Collier, all economists at the World Bank, that aid does boost growth when countries have reasonable economic policies.
What makes the promoters of the new orthodoxy so sure that they have succeeded where Plowden went astray is that there is now a far stronger body of evidence about which teaching methods seem to be most successful.
These findings are not surprising in light of the growing body of evidence linking intake of sugar sweetened beverages -- of which soda makes up the largest percentage -- and diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity and high cholesterol.
It may sound fanciful, but a growing body of evidence seems to suggest there may be a link between violent crime and - no, not policing strategy, or sentencing reform, or even trends in drug abuse, but - exposure to lead.
The results add weight to a growing body of evidence that suggests that the U.S. is lagging behind many of its international counterparts, most of whom have much higher levels of competition and, in turn, offer lower prices and faster Internet service.
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What can you do, spending as little money as humanly possible, to gather a persuasive body of evidence that the customers will really buy your product or service at a good enough price, in enough volume to make your idea worth executing?
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