Robust – cf.  robust investigation, robust screening,  robust framework

Whenever the word ‘robust’ is used to describe a procedure,  I smell a weasel in the room.  And most particularly if used in the passive:

• “these allegations were robustly scrutinized”
• “the consultation was robustly undertaken”
• “police insisted there had been a robust investigation”
  

Translation: “we closed our eyes, put our fingers in our ears, and went lalalala”

Oddly enough, “not sufficiently robust” means almost exactly the same thing.

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