Word: spuriousness
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...people trying to create havoc. If you look at most viruses, they don't create terrible destruction. It's much more like Zorro leaving his Z - these people want to let you know they were there, and that they were successful. Having said that, there is a lot of spurious philosophy evident in their content that's reminiscent of the 1960s. Back then, the counterculture believed that the military industrial complex was evil, and there was a movement to eat away at it from the outside. Today, hackers look at big business as evil, and when they manage to slow...
SHILLER Not necessarily, not with the P/E ratio. You are suggesting there is some spurious--some fallacy in that. There isn't a fallacy here. I look at past historical periods when we had similar leveling, and you know, what comes to mind is 1929. We have had a tripling of the stock market to a record high level in the past five years, and there is only one other time when that has happened, which was '24 to '29. So history doesn't encourage me to think people have suddenly learned something...
...Scientists will continue making incremental advances, but they will never achieve their most ambitious goals, such as understanding the origin of the universe, of life and of human consciousness. Most people find this prediction hard to believe, because scientists and journalists breathlessly hype each new breakthrough, whether genuine or spurious, and ignore all the areas in which science makes little or no progress. The human mind, in particular, remains as mysterious as ever. Some prominent mind scientists, including [TIME Visions contributor] Steven Pinker, have reluctantly conceded that consciousness might be scientifically intractable. Paul, you should jump...
...Burkett's book. When they're not whining about how hard it is to be parents, she complains, they're bilking the government by claiming exemptions for child care they use for socializing, demanding preferential treatment on the job, hogging more than their fair share of employee benefits, filing spurious lawsuits for ever more privileges, coming to work late or slipping out early, and belittling the childless colleagues who cover for them. In short, Burkett's parents behave like a bunch of badly brought-up brats. Childless adults, as she represents them, are mature, sensible--and exquisitely patient. Therein lies...
...true that the discoveries of the initiative are available to the public. And thanks to the electronic superhighway, the gene sequences are available on the Internet with a click of the mouse. So the possibility of a mad scientist-type downloading the information for his (or her) own spurious purposes is not all that far-fetched...