Sentence examples for to be specious from inspiring English sources

And his own reasoning in these pages tends to be specious or skewed.

Correlation is not necessarily causation, and conclusions based on just five data points can sometimes prove to be specious.

To justify his actions, he persuaded Americans that Saddam Hussein had chemical, biological and, especially, nuclear weapons programs — a claim that proved to be specious.

Some of this damage comes from misinformed reporting and speculation in the first days after Snowden's leak – the presumption that the NSA was "tapping directly" into the servers of Google, Facebook, et al. As soon as that assertion was shown to be specious, then came revelations that spies do tap directly into internet fiber, presumably via telecom and backbone providers.

Clearly, it would be specious to equate what colonizing Europeans did to the indigenous peoples of the Americas with what Wal-Mart's done to the United States.

And while it may be specious to build a theory on an empirical sample of two, the experience of belonging to such a counterintuitive migration seems to produce writers preoccupied with places and the spaces in between them.

Wouldn't it be specious reasoning to conclude that there is some platonic ideal one must aspire to?

Overall, no evidence of seasonality was observed, and earlier positive reports from smaller studies (for example Hayes, 1961; Lee, 1963a, b; Gunz and Spears, 1968) were postulated to have been specious, possibly arising due to increased publication of positive results over negative findings.

She knows that the phrase "fidelity to law" is specious because legal reasoning allows so many techniques to count as fidelity that virtually any result can be reached.

Much of this will be specious.

Here are mine: First, the argument that older people are favoured because they are more likely to vote is specious.