In today's environment, with ready access to enormous amounts of information, some of it specious, or worse, deliberately poisoning of a person's mental health, it is the investigative mind of the philosopher that possesses the tools to recognize half truths or complete falsehoods.
So, too, with "Homeland," which, though it also extends the specious argument that torture elicits real and useful information, has at least emphasized that it is grim business, both for the body and for the soul.
Even more than in 4A, the most distant alignments in 4B are expected to have errors; in particular, the single edge between the Class A and Class C sequences in 4B, representing a 22% identity alignment over 135 amino acids, potentially represents a specious connection that should be undetectable from sequence information alone.
WASHINGTON — President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser bluntly rejected on Wednesday charges from Mitt Romney and other Republicans that the White House has leaked classified information for political purposes, calling the claims "specious and unfounded".
They encourage people to avoid specious entries by offering more targeted analysis to people providing more information, which in turn enhances the data they already have.
The FCC is charged with the public interest and should have acknowledged our right to examine this information in a timely manner, as we addressed the specious claims of AT&T and Verizon, both of whom filed two objections, each.
United States law also affords publications far more protection than British law when it comes to specious stories, which could mean that reporters for American publications have less need to get information they can prove is true.
Information enters the now box and is retained for a brief time, the "specious present".
"Your references to unnamed alleged sources of information represent the height of irresponsible and unprofessional journalism given the gravely serious and specious allegations of substantial criminal conduct," Gavin Tighe complained.
I found Thomas L. Friedman's notion that the outsourcing of information-technology jobs is symptomatic of a failure of America's educational system specious (April 3).
