"The television advertising business," says Tim Hanlon, a media director at Starcom Worldwide, a large advertising and marketing conglomerate, "is a science based on specious data".
This makes it all the more important to point out when pundits attempt to influence a political debate by using specious data to exploit that fear.
When, a year later, the investigators repeated the study and matched a large proportion of the participants, they identified only 15% of the excess deaths [ 37], but not before national projections from this specious data was published [ 38].
Correlation is not necessarily causation, and conclusions based on just five data points can sometimes prove to be specious.
Further, as Prof Dimitro Godzinsky, of the Ukranian National Academy of Sciences, states in his introduction to the report: "Against this background of such persuasive data some defenders of atomic energy look specious as they deny the obvious negative effects of radiation upon populations.
They encourage people to avoid specious entries by offering more targeted analysis to people providing more information, which in turn enhances the data they already have.
This issue has previously resulted in phantom mutations in Sanger-based mtDNA data [82], and appears to be the cause of some specious heteroplasmies (both point and length) described in one of the few MPS-based studies that has attempted to report LHP [42].
David Colquhoun's critique of my journal's peer review and editorial processes is based on a single table lifted from the main research paper, in which the detailed numerical data tell a somewhat different story, rendering his analysis partial and his conclusions specious.
In slightly more general terms, Extensional theorists who believe that in our ordinary perceptual experience we are presented with purely phenomenal items (sense-data, qualia or similar) will regard the visual and auditory contents of specious presents as themselves being phenomenal in nature.
In the press, in committee hearings, on Capitol Hill — none of these may be "behind-closed-door" affairs, but they don't engage the public openly, which allows for authorities like the FBI to throw around their authority or use specious legal interpretations of laws like the All Writs Act to bully private individuals or enterprises into relinquishing control of their data.
In the press, in committee hearings, on Capitol Hill — none of these may be "behind-closed-door" affairs, but they don't engage the public openly, which allows for authorities like the FBI to throw around their authority or use specious legal interpretations of laws like the All Writs Act to bully private individuals or enterprises into relinquishing control of their data.
