Cosmology, in other words, is a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence.
Ethnohistorical research combines early documentary sources as well as archaeology, linguistics, and social theory with biogeographical evidence of the earliest cultures.
One piece of evidence in favour of this theory is the growing influence of tax-free retirement plans, which have made it possible for younger workers to channel their savings into mutual funds.
X-ray pulsar being spun up, and the theory rested on titbits of circumstantial evidence.
Part of the evidence for that theory comes from the Whitehall study, a giant 20-year study of British civil servants conducted by Sir Michael Marmot of University College, London.
The fox keeps an open mind, adjusts theory to evidence and is wary of ideology.
But it is always nice to have more than one line of evidence to back a theory up.
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Even in the absence of plausible theory (or just common sense), rigorous clinical testing could provide evidence of homeopathy's effectiveness, but the data suggest otherwise.
But some seriously logical economic theory and empirical evidence suggest that this set of options is much too bleak.
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Critics of the amyloid theory have to come up with convoluted arguments to account for all the genetic evidence in favor of amyloid, Schenk says.
Allen West said further nanodiamond evidence in support of the impact theory would be published in the coming weeks.
After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.
There is also longer-term evidence to support Dr Elsner's theory of two stable hurricane patterns.
If Professor Henshaw is right, his theory would be backed by epidemiological evidence - an analysis of every childhood cancer case would show more cases than expected living in these conditions.
In a scathing report, he concluded that investigators in the Willingham case had no scientific basis for claiming that the fire was arson, ignored evidence that contradicted their theory, had no comprehension of flashover and fire dynamics, relied on discredited folklore, and failed to eliminate potential accidental or alternative causes of the fire.
They also encourage teachers to discuss with their students such things as gaps in the fossil record, molecular evidence, that they say raises questions about the theory of evolution.
But some of his peers have questioned whether the evidence really supports the theory.
But neither statistics nor judicial evidence substantiate the theory that free trade is the root cause of the violence against women.
At a recent meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience in Sydney, Dr McGrath and Alan Mackay-Sim, of Griffith University, Brisbane, presented strong evidence for this theory.
There is not a lot of evidence to support the Anslinger-Hearst-DuPont-Mellon theory.
Alpha has always been a slippery concept: in theory there should not be much of it about and academics have struggled to find evidence that the industry consistently realises it for clients.
This concern prompted 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts to send a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on April 10, admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change, while neglecting basic empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.
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As Hugh Pennington, professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, says, there is some circumstantial evidence to support the theory.
Though most climate scientists are confident of this theory, they have had, so far, to rely on indirect evidence for it.
Those who worked with what was alive in an infinity of yesterdays complained that even though they had no good explanation of why punctuated-equilibrium theory worked, you couldn't argue with the evidence in the rocks, maths or no maths.
He calls them Black Swans, after the philosopher Karl Popper's observation that only a single black swan is required to falsify the theory that "all swans are white" even when there are thousands of white swans in evidence.
Take a theory which predicts that a certain thing will happen if real wages rise and look for evidence of that occurrence.
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He hinted that police have some idea of what happened to Hall that night but are seeking forensic evidence to support their theory.
But although their article documents a correlation of privatisation and mortality at the country level, it provides no evidence for their theory that privatisation causes job loss.
Some economists say the theory explains why many people don't feel great about their financial situations, despite statistical evidence of a very strong economy.
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