Dr. Kellner cites a study purporting to show an absence of cognitive impairment in eight subjects after more than 100 lifetime ECT treatments.

(See electrical current) Recently, however, the results of the studies purporting this theory have come under some minor contention.

Distant Healing Yet while the Rosas and their colleagues, Larry Sarner and Stephen Barrett, were saying the holistic healing Emperor has no clothes, another researcher in San Francisco was promoting a study purporting to show that the Emperor is quite nicely dressed.

During the day, Democrats like Representative Charles E. Schumer of Brooklyn rolled out studies and analyses purporting to show that a balanced-budget amendment, if enforced, would devastate state governments that rely on Federal aid and wreak more suffering on the poor and on welfare recipients.

She had worked with Africans long enough to value their skills and ability and be totally incensed by studies purporting to prove that Africans were of lesser ability than Europeans.

Most studies purporting to show positive results either lacked a placebo control or could not be sure patients were unaware of who was wearing real magnets.

The WSJ and WP each run stories describing a new study purporting to show that the differences between black and white investors are considerable.

Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively.

In November, when New York City Comptroller William Thompson released a study purporting to show that New Yorkers purchase more than $23 billion in counterfeit goods each year, The Times repeated the analysis as if it were credible.

Medical studies purporting to show that wine can be harmful are countered with other studies that show it is not.