In its capacity as a media-watchdog, CSI has “ mobilized thousands of scientists, academics and responsible communicators ” to criticize what it regards as “ media's most blatant excesses .” While much of this criticism has focused on factual TV programming or newspaper articles offering support for paranormal claims, CSI has also been critical of programs such as The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which its members believe portray skeptics and science in a bad light and help to promote belief in the paranormal.

This edition has been subject to some negative criticism ( e. g. in Private Eye ) owing to the significant number of typographical and factual errors that it contains.

In 2006, John Fusco, the screenwriter of Hidalgo, responded to criticism about the factual basis of the film.

Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overly burdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment of the reader ( a meaning that was quite foreign to Greek thought ).

Case Closed also drew widespread criticism from assassination researchers who contended that it contained factual inaccuracies.

The book has met with criticism, primarily for the inaccuracy of geographical information, compounded by numerous factual errors and an apparent reliance on largely unverifiable claims.

His writing about the game was innovative, turning what had previously been in general a purely factual form into vivid description and criticism.

A secondary criticism was that editors were being self-indulgent, because they spent time on minor alterations while leaving important factual inaccuracies in place, and thus were disregarding the needs of the readers.

While Fulgentius ’ works remained popular during and well after the Carolingian period, his factual inaccuracies and questionable interpretations came under harsh criticism in the 19th century.

The factivity thesis, the proposition that relational predicates having to do with knowledge, such as knows, learn, remembers, and realized, presuppose the factual truth of their object, however, was subject to notable criticism by Allan Hazlett.

The feature came in for some criticism on the basis of its factual correctness and bias in favour of the Kilcoynes.

The Appeal Court verdict of 30 months ( above ) has come under severe criticism in a leading Danish legal journal for being extremely complicated and not easily accessible – from a factual as well as a legal point of view.

The film dramatization Hilary and Jackie, supported by Hilary Finzi, changes the story line of the memoir on several key factual points, and has been criticized by some for imposing a scandal on Jacqueline's personal life.

Whereas an intermediate appellate court hears general appeals from a lower court grounded on issues of law and procedure as well as errors of fact and reasoning, the Court only decides matters on points of law or procedure as applied in a case, not factual errors.

The radio show host quickly points out the factual errors in the caller's assertion and the logical fallacies of his plan.

This is done by attaching relevant documents and by summarizing all relevant factual points within those documents in a separate statement of facts.

Presupposition ( 5 ) points out that the validity of an understanding reached in theoretical or practical discourse, concerning some factual knowledge or normative principle, is always expanded beyond the immediate context in which it is achieved.

Markoff is ridiculed as the narrator, director Goldstein ( a hacker himself ), points out his factual errors during the interview.

Kononenko points out that there is no factual basis for this image, and her research showed that the minstrel tradition was still very strong and creative up until the 1930s.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

Nor do supposed metavian groupings like flamingos and nightjars or tropicbirds and hummingbirds seem to have a factual basis rather than being artifactually grouped based on molecular homoplasies or lack of informative characters within the group, as Fain and Houde originally suggested ; Metaves instead may be a " wastebasket taxon ".

Hergé's lack of accurate knowledge about the Soviet Union led to many factual mistakes ; for instance, the story contains references to bananas, Shell petrol and Huntley and Palmers biscuits, none of which actually existed in the Soviet Union at the time.

Around two thirds of these were related to alleged factual inaccuracies, one in five related to alleged invasions of privacy and the rest included the lack of right to reply, harassment and obtaining information using covert devices.

Mikael Rothstein notes that a lack of objective factual information is often a problem in studying religious leaders, even for new religious movements.

It also provides for sanctions against the attorney or client for harassment, frivolous arguments, or a lack of factual investigation.

The moving party can show that the disputed factual issues are illusory, can show a lack of genuine issue by producing affidavits or can make a showing through discovery.

Scientists, dietitians, and doctors, while generally judging ' detox diets ' harmless ( unless nutritional deficiency results ), often dispute the value and need of ' detox diets ' due to lack of supporting factual evidence or coherent rationale.

In his recent evaluation of Kennedy's potentialities for leadership, Walter Lippmann has cited the `` precision '' of his mind, his `` immense command '' of factual detail, and his `` instinct for the crucial point '' as impressive in the extreme ; ;

Joking and talking may be freer and easier, but the important factual information is still lacking for far too many newly-married men and women.

: Alexander insisted on the need for strategic reasoning because kinesthetic sensory awareness is a relative sense, not a truthful indicator of factual bodily relationship in space.

Others hold that an Alford plea is simply one form of a guilty plea, and, as with other guilty pleas, the judge must see there is some factual basis for the plea.

Steiner's stated prerequisites to beginning on a spiritual path include a willingness to take up serious cognitive studies, a respect for factual evidence, and a responsible attitude.

Generally speaking, unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information to cover the thing or concept for which the article name stands.

Seddon claims that arguments for economy of scale are a mix of a ) the plausibly obvious and b ) a little hard data, brought together to produce two broad assertions, for which there is little hard factual evidence.

In the United States, Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and similar state rules require that an attorney perform a due diligence investigation concerning the factual basis for any claim or defense.

By inventing and inserting documents that appear to be factual, an author tries to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected suspension of disbelief for a work of art.

Although the Social Democrats showed strong support for the expellees especially under Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer, social democrats in more recent decades have traditionally been less supportive — and it was under Willy Brandt that West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse line as factual as part of his Ostpolitik.

di • as • ka • go • gy-goj-ee A neologism developed for preschool education that focuses on schema building: Caregiver demonstrates factual knowledge.

** Quasi-realism, defended by Simon Blackburn, holds that ethical statements behave linguistically like factual claims and can be appropriately called " true " or " false ", even though there are no ethical facts for them to correspond to.

Prescriptivism is also supported by Imperative logic, in which there are no truth values for imperatives, and by the idea of the Naturalistic fallacy: even if someone could prove the existence of an ethical property and express it in a factual statement, he could never derive any command from this statement, so the search for ethical properties is pointless.

" More comprehensive is the description by Richard Alan Nelson: " Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages ( which may or may not be factual ) via mass and direct media channels.

Sometimes it is enough for a symbol of the object which enables factual control to be handed over ( e. g. handing over the keys to a car or a house ).

In the U. S. federal system, the court must also satisfy itself that there is a factual basis for the guilty plea.

When a plea agreement has been made, the judge's factual basis inquiry is usually perfunctory, and the standard for finding that the plea is factually based is very low.

Noam Chomsky roundly criticized sociobiology and many of its proponents, saying " Even if we grant every factual conclusion for which some shred of evidence is claimed, nothing of interest follows, except on assumptions that reflect ideological fanaticism, not science.

Defamation — also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander ( for transitory statements ), and libel ( for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words )— is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation a negative or inferior image.

The CIIR was critical of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights ( PCHR or CPDH in Spanish ), claiming that the organisation had a tendency to immediately publish accusations against the government without first establishing a factual basis for the allegations.