Sentence examples for specious evidence from inspiring English sources

The legal proceedings, which were based on specious evidence, were highly irregular.

Nicholas D. Kristof's May 6 column confirms precisely what a sizable minority of Americans and a majority of people in the rest of the world have suspected from the get-go: President Bush's war campaign against Iraq was premised on specious evidence because it was meant to compensate for the administration's tremendous sense of powerlessness and vulnerability created by the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Voris cites the "Star Wars" reviews that ended up on the "Shape of Water" page as an example of specious evidence that has been heavily discussed by other outlets (such as Bleeding Cool News) and could easily have been found by Down With Disney after the fact.

Zamora's removal was made on specious grounds, using a constitutional technicality.

Without naming fellow Republicans, Senator McCain dismissed the accusation as "sinister," devoid of any evidence and "specious and degrading".

Iran has insisted such suspicions are specious and based on fabricated evidence, but has so far balked at requests by agency inspectors to investigate for themselves.

Police tend to point to the low numbers of sustained complaints as evidence that they were specious charges filed in retaliation for lawful arrests.

It did not matter that the evidence was meagre, partial, perhaps entirely specious, because the objects themselves were real, had once belonged to real livings beings.

Despite being presented with numerous reports documenting flaws in the use of drug-detection dogs, the U.S. Supreme Court opted to ignore plentiful evidence that drug dog alerts are specious at best.

(Quoted in Kantor 1978, 416) "In no respect have the findings of the Warren Commission been more universally discredited," writes Peter Dale Scott, "than in their specious effort to claim that there was no evidence linking Jack Ruby to organized crime".

The analysis of fluctuations yields more evidence that Howe's 1997 theorem is specious when applied to Poincaré supergravity or 11D supergravity/M-theory.