Sentence examples for spurious science from inspiring English sources

(Hence the appeal of spurious science suggesting there is a 'gay gene', which would seem to close the argument).

The anti-abortion movement may also be promoting this spurious science because of its fear of the abortion pill.

"You were determined to bolster the illusion that the devices worked and you knew there was a spurious science to produce that end," he said.

But if you spent a while in front of the photographs and documents, what you might well come away with was a sense that from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 on, restrictions on immigration have enshrined some of our very worst impulses and ideas: Ethnic quotas, spurious eugenic science, the scapegoating of immigrants for our economic troubles, misdirected panic over national security.

On the same day, Frydenberg's comments were taken up by News Corp. columnist Miranda Devine who called climate science "spurious" and erroneously said China's demand for coal was growing.

Some of the plans above sound like spurious tales of science fiction, pages ripped from a pulp novel, but they shouldn't be immediately discounted just for that.

This preference leads to a spurious centralization of science to a few journals [29], [30], even though the extent of the centralization has been debated or even refuted [31].

The government's chief scientific adviser has hit out at climate sceptics who attack global warming science on spurious grounds.

Writing for Australia's the Conversation, professors Colin Butler and Helen Louise Berry, and Emeritus professor Anthony McMichael say the focus has been largely on "spurious debate about the basic science and on the risks to property, iconic species and ecosystems, jobs, the GDP and the economics of taking action versus taking our chances".

There's controversy surrounding The Journal of Spurious Correlations, a new social-science journal devoted exclusively to publishing negative results.

SPURIOUS correlation is a bane of science.