Of course, there is always the possibility of a spurious correlation.
Fear of a spurious threat to the state was turned into a witch-hunt by McCarthy and his aide, a certain Richard Nixon.
We've always thought that her situation had all the hallmarks of a spurious, trumped-up case designed to exert diplomatic pressure on a western country.
She fought the debunkers who, for the sake of a spurious honesty, would denude her of landscape and return her to the marble cell.
Opponents see the efforts of APR conservationists as a kind of gentrification of the wilderness: wealthy outsiders, in search of a spurious authenticity.
However, there is an equal or greater risk in abandoning a coherent and truthful narrative of the violence of the last century for the sake of a spurious quantitative precision.
Ramachandran suggested that laughter occurs as a result of a spurious threat: the insular cortex signals something alarming and then the anterior cingulate gyrus, which detects incongruities, responds, "Don't worry, no threat".
Since late last year, suspicions have been running unusually high because of a spurious map that appeared on Internet sites here and was quickly accepted as real by newspapers and radio talk show hosts.
PCs Fiona Bone, 32, and PC Nicola Hughes, 23, died within moments of the 29-year-old fugitive luring them to the scene of a spurious burglary in Hattersley, Greater Manchester, last September.
Robyn Lawley, one of Australia's most well-known plus-size models and designers, was the centre of a spurious report after an interview with Cosmopolitan about her pregnancy was misreported.
The targets are Mexicans, and the other mostly Spanish-speaking people who are the subjects of a spurious campaign against "anchor babies" — children of illegal immigrants supposedly brought forth to invade and occupy.
