Word: spuriousness
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Caldwell makes the spurious assumption that any ACS activity not directly devoted to research is wasteful. The author neglects to mention that ACS received the Better Business Bureau’s “Wise Giving Seal” for the efficiency of its activities. Even if ACS could be more efficient—and we are always striving to make it so—the claims of corruption and fraudulence are completely unsupported and fraudulent themselves...
...start of “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” That disastrous invasion was justified by a misinformation campaign full of stories about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, links with al-Qaeda, and human rights violations. Three years later, the first two accusations have proven spurious, and the U.S.’s credibility to address the third issue has become deeply suspect. Abuses in Iraq are, as a top human rights UN official in the country recently argued, “certainly as bad” and extend “over a much wider...
...dismayed by last week’s untimely coup can take solace in the fact that Harvard is more funhouse and less emblem of American society. The resignation is an incident so preposterous, so exceptional that there are no big lessons to be gleaned. Rather, there are only circumspect, spurious lessons—lessons not in the sense that they are morals to live by, but in the sense that they gesture toward the University’s sacred cows, to which a president must pay unabated homage if he hopes to achieve anything.The central lesson of this sordid story...
...Clash of Civlizations,” op-ed). While I recognize the right of European bigots to defame Islam if they choose to, these cartoons cannot be examined outside the context of the anti-Muslim sentiment that has, of late, gained so much legitimacy in European public discourse. The spurious examination employed by Ms. Ingram naturally leads to quaint visions of a "clash of civilizations" or of a noble Europe bearing the burden of free speech against rapacious Muslims who just don’t get it. I also vigorously object to Ms. Ingram’s casual...
Amidst a myriad of flasks and his “black arts” chemicals and wearing an opulent gold brocade robe, the alchemist pursues his treacherous craft. But this craft in not merely the spurious production of gold; rather, the alchemist’s true art lies is his ability to exploit human weakness. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) masterful presentation of Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson’s “The Alchemist” succeeds in transcending its titular seventeenth century pseudoscience to provide a humorous look at the foibles of mankind...