That means it is possible that he is seeing a spurious trend resulting from minor changes in reporting practices.
A year later, a local court sent him to prison for more than four years on charges that were widely seen as spurious.
Skeptical scientists questioned Dr. Belli closely on whether his team might be seeing a spurious variation caused by an incorrect subtraction or a background that varies with the season for unrelated reasons, such as changing levels of natural radioactivity.
To see these spurious arguments deployed in literature at the Conservative Party conference is deeply concerning and serves to underscore once again the mountain the party must climb to challenge intolerance in its ranks".
When Justice Department memos delineating these justifications came to some light, though, we saw no more than spurious legal argument, reliant on dangerously loose and broad definitions.
William Hill has the top few as follows: George: 2/1 James: 4/1 Alexander: 6/1 Albert: 12/1 Phillip: 14/1 Arthur, Henry, Louis 16/1 Benjamin, Richardd: 20/1 And if those strike numbers strike you as spurious, see OddsChecker, which lists … everything.
First, it assumes that God either would not see through the spurious motivations — an improbable assumption given God's required omniscience — or would be beneficent enough to look the other way.
Stamatellos (2007: 102 103) suggests that Fragments 21 and 23 are authentic, but the overwhelming consensus of other scholars regards them as spurious (see Burkert 1972: 242 243, who refers to previous scholarship and Huffman 1993: 343 344).
Fortunately, it appears from this week's argument that the appeals court panel saw through the administration's spurious justifications.
A previous study looked at every intergenic ORF, and found similar numbers, but that study would not have seen genes overshadowed by spurious genes and spurious extensions to genes.
