On the one hand, these American eugenicists tended to be WASP grandees like Fisher -- ivory-tower dwellers and privileged have-mores with an obvious incentive to invent spurious theories to justify their own position.
It is in many ways a spurious, simplistic theory; wander into any Scottish hostelry on any given night and those two topics will be intensely discussed.
Neoconservative ideologues came up with a spurious "domino theory" according to which regime change in Iraq would be emulated elsewhere and even somehow promote recognition of Israel by the Palestinians and moderate Arab states.
It could be said that every spurious conspiracy theory, too, represents or results from a failure somewhere, if only a political or educational one, or if only in a distorted or inverted way.
The House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation succumbed to this dynamic earlier this year when it became clear in open hearings that some Republicans, including the chairman of the committee, Devin Nunes, only cared about protecting Donald Trump, while some Democrats, like Jackie Speier, were willing to publicize spurious conspiracy theories.
"It is shocking that Travis Kalanick could publicly say that Uber would do everything to support our client and her family in her recovery when he and other executives were reviewing illegally obtained medical records and engaging in offensive and spurious conspiracy theories about the brutal rape she so tragically suffered".
He exclaimed, "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not," when he heard about an experimental contradiction (later proven spurious) of his theory of relativity.
He also points out that the various psychological processes which Husserl's theory assumes are spurious.
According to truthmaker theorists, focusing on truthmakers will eliminate spurious ontological commitments of an entailment theory.
Hence Russell's theory brings about a spurious appearance of semantic harmony where in fact there is conflict and contradiction.
