Assertion of claims that a theory predicts something that it has not been shown to predict Scientific claims that do not confer any predictive power are considered at best "conjectures", or at worst "pseudoscience" (e.g. Ignoratio elenchi)

The law prohibits people from pursuing claims against the state.

"It is not in the public interest to spend federal dollars pursuing claims that have little or no chance of success," the agency said.

There is evidence that these charges are being used to discourage applicants from pursuing claims.

They hold the TV companies responsible and are pursuing claims for damages.

Other lawyers are pursuing claims on behalf of Ohio.

Some lawyers are pursuing claims of cancer caused by asbestos cigarette filters used in the 1950's.

Landfrieden formed the political basis for pursuing claims without resorting to the private use of violence.

For all the difficulty of pursuing claims against the names, some of them nonetheless remain worried about their fortunes.

But pursuing claims for Erisa-protected pensions can be burdensome.

"G.M.A.C. is pursuing claims against the estate to recover more property and money."

The same is true for workers covered by the Railway Labor Act, which does not provide any administrative procedure for pursuing claims against a union.

He said the prosecution was not pursuing claims that she threw his clothes out of a window because it was doubtful this amounted to a crime.

We are pursuing claims for serious damages that we have sustained as a result of an act that we view as reprehensible.

Still, people pursuing claims against the power companies greeted the Enron memos as hard, written evidence of the circumstantial suspicions that had guided their lawsuits for months.

'Patent troll' is the name given to a company which has the sole purpose of pursuing claims to get third parties to buy licenses or go to court.

In an interesting twist of fate, descendants of the Calvert brothers are now pursuing claims to the treasure recovered from Hisarlik.

Instead the cash is dangled in public to eight of the 24 victims who are pursuing claims in the courts, from Sienna Miller to Andy Gray.

Turkey has repeatedly threatened that it will not allow the Republic of Cyprus to proceed with pursuing claims to hydrocarbon deposits in waters south of the island.

Through a statement read to court on 24 January 2011, Crossley announced that he was withdrawing from pursuing claims against alleged illegal file sharers, citing criminal attacks and bomb threats as reasons.

While helping the less fortunate, the Sevilla Somozas have also been pursuing claims to scores of Somoza family properties the Sandinistas expropriated the day after they entered Managua in July 1979.

He in particular had to school John C. Calhoun on the diplomatic ramifications of pursuing claims after slaves mutinied aboard a ship plying the American coast and sailed it to The Bahamas.

As Trade Representative, Portman is cited for initiating worldwide trade agreements between other countries and the United States, and pursuing claims against China and the European Union at the World Trade Organization.

The three-judge panel, in a decision that could still be appealed to the Supreme Court, ruled that California and other Western states can keep pursuing claims that they were overcharged billions of dollars for power during the regional energy crisis of 2000-1.

As of 1904, Frances Amelia Bartlett de Oviedo von Gluemer was still alive, though in significantly reduced circumstances, pursuing claims under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War, regarding property left to her by her first husband in Cuba.

Lawyers familiar with the inquiry said the prosecutors were also pursuing claims by Mr. Chang that Mr. Torricelli and a few of his allies had discouraged Mr. Chang from cooperating with the government and had even suggested that he flee the country until the federal investigation ended.