Sentence examples for incorrect arguments from inspiring English sources

They joined many of his other detractors in making old and factually incorrect arguments about what Snowden actually did.

The shorts are wrong sometimes, but in my experience they are usually right in the cases when companies scream bloody murder, rather than simply refute incorrect arguments and then go out and run successful businesses.

"The study put to rest two incorrect arguments that persisted because of an absence of evidence," said Katherine Baicker, a Harvard economist who worked on the study and served as an economic adviser to President George W. Bush.

This can be humorous from an insider's position when one sees the media triumph a paper as 'reigniting the debate over x' when in truth the researchers have looked at the paper, noted an obvious flaw or that it simply rehashes old and incorrect arguments or data, and carried on.

Although he allows that errors in reasoning are common in real life, he thinks that "types of logically incorrect arguments"—fallacies are probably not common (1981, 113).

Baseless and factually incorrect arguments against evolution frequently rely upon evolution's lack of explanatory power with regard to the origin of life (for example, Yahya 2005).

For all his virtues, Galileo, mind firmly shut, was using an incorrect argument to promote a cosmology that has turned out to be wrong.

He has a gloriously incorrect argument with her about Islam, which baffles him, triggered by his refusal to believe that there can be so many Muslims in the world.

"It is an incorrect argument that if you can hold out against that last segment and not complete the ring it will be a bulwark against sprawl, because the sprawl already exists.

That was always both an incomplete and an incorrect argument," he tells Beet.TV in this video interview.

Flawed clinical reports include an incorrect argument that heterofermentative Lactobacillus must hydrolyze arginine [ 25], while in fact L. sanfrancisco and L. fructosus do not [ 23], and labeling the organism as Leuconostoc even though the organism was LAP positive [ 26].