Word: bullshitting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...respect the sentiment, but I think it’s bullshit,” said Adams resident Ashley “Aja” Jovanovski...
Studies like Cohen's help ground a young and sometimes fluffy field in hard science, says conference chairman Chris Peterson of the University of Michigan. "It's very, very careful, creative research," he says, while conceding, "There's a temptation to bullshit in positive psychology...
...person, to writing letters, to talking on the phone, to writing e-mails, to, once again, speaking face-to-face, whether from opposite ends of the globe or from opposite ends of the classroom. Vid chat is the closest thing to the real thing. No more of this abbreviating bullshit: “heyyyy.” “sup?” “nm, u?” “brb.” “k.” Those days are, thankfully, coming to an end. Give your fingers a rest...
...psychology book, “Mindfucking” by Colin McGinn, has emerged to expose worrying weaknesses of the human psyche. The author, a prolific figure in the analytical school of philosophy, was inspired partly by Harry Frankfurt’s 2005 treatise “On Bullshit,” which scrutinized our use of another pseudo-expletive. The eponymous phenomenon is one of mental manipulation, a “rhetorical abuse or sleight-of-hand” that involves “a fundamental restructuring of outlook, often with deep emotional resonance, and frequently coupled with resistance...
...calories a day and $8 a week: "It was a strange calculation, and by all acounts a dangerous one ... Could I do it again? I don't know. Would I? I'm even less sure. But I do know this: Hunger is power. And everything else is bullshit...