Nor is the link to economic conditions as spurious as it might first appear.
A spurious tabloid rumour about an Oasis reunion often treads a similar path: "A source" chirrups of some tentative peace within the Gallagher camp.
Along with bad economics, the government has engaged in the kind of scaremongering normally found on the fringes of the environmental movement, holding repeated inquiries into the totally spurious health risks of wind turbines.
There have been some – albeit rather spurious – suggestions that England's captain might have considered his own position during this series, but Cook was adamant he has never been close to resigning.
The story of Game of Thrones is already basically just a Monopoly session writ large, full of aggressive trading and spurious imprisonments and players seeking to gain total control over their peers.
"It is a sad indictment on society that when once spurious claims making false, serious and highly damaging allegations have been made – especially where compensation is sought – that other similar claims may follow," it reads.
The temptation to use these surveys to make much more precise forecasts of how votes might turn into seats proved too great for us all, but the new precision proved to be spurious.
That struggle has for a generation been sent off at a tangent by the spurious principle enunciated in article 141 of the EU treaty and the Equal Pay Act 1970 and parroted everywhere else – that women and men should earn equal pay for work of equal value.
This power need not come with responsibility; no government entity will force the company to discourage abuse and promote quality, just as nobody can force Twitter to remain to open to hosting hate speech with spurious appeals to the First Amendment.
The considered view of the new House of Commons will be to stay in and not to leave the EU regardless of any spurious "renegotiation" imagined by David Cameron.
An adult self-diagnosing with some spurious allergy or food intolerance is their own business; if you want to bore your friends rigid with your entirely imaginary diet sensitivities, then knock yourself out!
