Comparisons between Eddy Merckx and Vos have been made for a while now, and they are not specious in the slightest.
Now the ICHD-III beta committee could pause there and say the new definition conforms by the definition of "to make like" (Oxford English Dictionary), since like gives some flexibility, although that may be seen a rather insouciant, if not specious, approach.
However, we must discuss the merits of the decision, not specious arguments about judicial bias.
This isn't specious guesswork.
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].
The specious present is perhaps not really specious: the idea that it was specious depended on an idea that the real (nonspecious) present had to be instantaneous.
Steiner quotes Jean Dubuffet's 1962 statement that he found the "specious notion of beauty" with which the female body has been associated "miserable and most depressing": "Surely I aim for a beauty, but not that one".
A cardinal rule of measuring public opinion is that 'context is king.' Binary characterizations of public opinion are not only specious, but can often be dangerous in a world where polling numbers can influence national policies and laws.
Lilly's argument is not entirely specious.
It's not entirely specious to compare him to Stringer Bell in this respect: the striving Bell was in the drugs trade, but his real business was himself.
What strong scientific theories, even those crafted in pop form, have in common with good stories is not some specious universality.
