Sentence examples for spurious practice from inspiring English sources

As we argue in our recent book "What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand" (more information is available at www.aristos.org), the spurious practice of calling children "artists" of any stripe not only ill serves them, it also trivializes the enterprise of art itself.

In the last few years, pangolins have become a fashionable cure-all in Chinese medicine -- a spurious practice that's fueling a massive illegal trade that led to over 40,000 individuals of these highly endangered species being slaughtered in 2011 alone.

They opined that the dispensary would also help to stop the "clandestine sale of medicine" and other "spurious medical practices" and to "introduce into India the knowledge of European Pharmacy, to remove by degrees the errors of ignorance and to extend the practice of scientific adepts".

Such changes over time could be due to real shifts in the bacterial populations, changes in the number or type of participating institutions, changes in specimen collection practices, or spurious correlations, as no statistical corrections were made for multiple comparisons.

On this view, rape is a political practice by which spurious beliefs about gender and sexuality are expressed, inscribed, and enforced via the violation and control of women's bodies.

Skewed results showing a spurious effect can alter clinical practice and potentially harm patients as ineffective medication may be prescribed which would expose patients to risks of medication without the benefits.

This has led to spurious advertising claims and other practices currently under government examination.

Using spurious allegations of unfair trade practices, American catfish farmers have been able to hoodwink the federal government into slapping tariffs of up to 64percentt on Vietnamese catfish.

This study uses data from 74 practices that had continuous recording from 1994 to 2001, eliminating possible spurious trends caused by having different practices in the sample over time.

Interestingly, we found the regression for the sub-population of the farmers that practice irrigated rice farming spurious.

This practice may lead to spurious findings [ 28].