What's the difference between evidence and hogwash?

Evidence


Definition:

  • (n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
  • (n.) One who bears witness.
  • (n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.
  • (v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
  • (2) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
  • (3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (4) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (5) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (6) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
  • (7) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (8) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (9) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
  • (10) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
  • (11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (12) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
  • (13) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
  • (14) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
  • (15) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
  • (16) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (17) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
  • (18) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (19) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (20) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.

Hogwash


Definition:

  • (n.) Swill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former UBS chief economist George Magnus called the comments from Navarro about the euro “hogwash” because it was not “Germany’s currency to influence or manage”.
  • (2) Those accusations are absolute rubbish – hogwash."
  • (3) Critchlow puts in a valiant effort during a visit to a community initiative with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who dismisses as "hogwash" the idea that the Tories have given up.
  • (4) The idea that the leadership doesn’t understand how bad the problems are and that foreign experts have a much better idea of what is going on in the Chinese system I think are hogwash.
  • (5) Because this is what happens in a hermetic system defined – more narrowly by the day, and especially by night – on the catchphrasing of hogwash and the homiletics of hokum ethics.
  • (6) On the day of the Newtown school shootings in the US the host angrily confronted members of the pro-gun movement on his nightly show, denouncing as "total hogwash" their argument that more guns mean less crime.
  • (7) Harald Heubaum from the University of London said the idea that shale gas prices could be as low as the US was "fanciful thinking" and that Cameron's suggestion fracking could play a role in the current stand-off with Russia was "hogwash".
  • (8) It’s a bunch of hogwash to think that his medical condition is going to cause him any more pain than anybody else,” he claimed.
  • (9) 4.06pm BST In a time of rigid partisanship, no issue is so purely polar as "Benghazi," with one side framing it as an historically significant crisis and the other side calling it hogwash.
  • (10) That is hogwash.” He insists Poland can achieve western-level economic development while maintaining age-old traditional Polish values and remaining a homogenous white Catholic country.
  • (11) The argument that London or any other city should protect its antiquated cabs from competition is simply hogwash.
  • (12) The statement runs counter to the view of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, who insists any link between climate change and bushfires is “complete hogwash” .