Word: hearsay
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...South Africa's foremost assassin, ran the Vlakplaas, a shadowy vigilante group created by the apartheid-era South African government to fight the ANC with whatever tactics it chose. He and Williamson were contemporaries. "The problem is that a lot of what De Kock says is third-person hearsay," says TIME Southern Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "De Kock is trying to ease his sentence by providing information, and so people are skeptical about his testimony. De Kock is a monstrous, truly evil man who is trying to make as many waves as he can as he faces life imprisonment...
...Both motions are likely to fail, and a controversial new California law, which permits statements of crime victims to be admitted in court, will open the door to a dramatic reading of Nicole's diary, in which she describes Simpson's beating her. Those entries were excluded as hearsay during the criminal proceedings...
...strictly legal terms is that prosecutors may not have enough evidence to charge Lindsey but believe he is linked to a crime. The court will now be able to hear testimony about things that he may have said concerning the alleged crimes that would otherwise be inadmissible as hearsay. That testimony will probably come from the bank's ex-president Neal Ainley, the chief prosecution witness, who has already pleaded guilty to failing to report cash transactions from the campaign...
...most fundamental form, the process by which we make discoveries about the world--like the atom or the gene--that precede practical inventions. At its core, science is a way of thinking--making judgments, often creative ones, that are based on evidence, not on desires, received beliefs, or hearsay. Thinking in this way is not unique to the natural sciences; it is important for many disciplines. But the pursuit of evidence, through experiment and observation, is the lifeblood of science...
...that there never was any challenge to Dr. Mack's right to do research on "abduction," to propose hypotheses or to hold controversial opinions. That Mr. Dershowitz would prefer to believe otherwise is puzzling. He either hadn't seen the committee report, in which case he was relying on hearsay or guesswork, or he had seen the report and chose to misrepresent it. The committee was critical of Dr. Mack not because he was interested in the "abduction" phenonmenon but because he wasn't doing any scientific research on the problem and wasn't being sufficiently objective and detached...