Sentence examples for dodgy argument from inspiring English sources

The word "probably" is the one that matters: Goldacre is big on probability, and a relentless scourge of "science" journalism: the kind of lazy hackwork that picks up a spurious finding or a dodgy argument and presents it as evidence of cause and effect.

Dodgy line to Port Douglas.

Mr Eichengreen show that for reserve currencies these arguments are dodgy.

With frequent reference to the specious political arguments and dodgy intelligence wielded by Tony Blair in the run-up to the 2003 invasion, and to the calamity it produced, Britain's parliamentarians suggested Syria was too similar a case.

The argument then was that responsible journalists needed to take much more seriously the twin evils of the red-tops' trivialised, salacious editorial content and the dodgy journalistic methodology used to obtain it.

Its argument for accepting dodgy collateral is that ratings are irrelevant as long as countries retain the lifeline of official bail-out money: the IMF trumps the markets.Another openly declared operation has been the ECB's purchases of government bonds of the three afflicted countries (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) in the secondary market.

Another argument is that banks' dodgy assets are hard to value, making it impossible to know how much capital they need — and probably very expensive to provide it.

If robots prove more capable surgeons or artificial accountants are less willing to facilitate tax evasion than the occasional dodgy human version, there would be a solid ethical argument for making humans redundant from those professions.

In one of the many passages that combine bathos with humour and a welcome clarity of historical argument, Johnson notes that it wasn't just dodgy royals and newspaper proprietors who appeased the Nazis.

Still, there is a solid argument to deny bonuses to executives who eagerly gorged on dodgy securities that drove the banks to the brink of collapse.

Forget some of the daft name-calling and some of the dodgy leaflets and claims on both sides; there has been a real argument and its effects will last.