It also mentioned the tweet by the Tory MP for Yeovil, Marcus Fysh, who called the Treasury analysis "specious bollocks" (though the paper used asterisks).
There is the concept of the generation, an empirically specious category (as though the human race reproduced itself just once every twenty-five years) that nevertheless captures an element in everyone's sense of identity.
Western countries assert that this argument is specious, and that even though some of them like the United States are willing to subsidize modern environmental technologies in poor countries, the leaders of the latter often find it politically expedient to play to their domestic galleries and oppose measures proposed by the industrialized nations.
Scholarly (though sometimes specious) analyses, historical context, and cultural sensitivity are valuable tools to understand the world we live in, and to slowly improve it, but are not that useful for the day-to-day governing of a nation of 1.25 billion people, which requires making hard choices and taking action.
Although we only sampled five species for the present study, our model system sensu lato is the specious genus Anas, and even though species distributions change over time there certainly have always been several Anas species living in sympatry.
Mr Pepy insists that the TGV business is not itself in question, though that distinction looks specious given it is stuck with the rising track costs.SNCF bosses see three options for dealing with the TGV problem.
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.
In the meantime though, expect a flurry of specious leaks to keep your Galaxy S III appetite whetted over the next 17 days.
It is not about "cowing" anyone; it is about persuading them that you are right and should be allowed to do exactly what you want to do, even though your arguments are completely specious.
Compare them, though, to deliberately withholding benefits on the basis of specious sanctions; mass-scale food-bank usage, as hardship tips into desperation; and a regime in the DWP that is as unlikely to overpay in a rush of generosity to the head as it is to accept opportunity and dignity as government objectives.
