Sentences with phrase «nonsense on stilts»

If not being nonsense on stilts was a requirement for all aspects of law, we'd probably have to change more than a few bedrock principles.

I suppose too, they believe too, that the natural rights of man are the «nonsense on stilts» as Bentham claimed, that it is their solemn duty to act in the way that they do.

In her review of Massimo Pigliucci's book Nonsense on Stilts, Amanda Gefter writes that astrology «lacks a consistent explanatory framework.

In his 2010 book Nonsense on Stilts (University of Chicago Press), philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci concedes that there is «no litmus test,» because «the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than Popper (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe.»

Nonsense on Stilts by Massimo Pigliucci (University of Chicago Press) A tour of solid science, shaky science, and pseudoscience, this crash course in critical thinking by biologist and philosopher Pigliucci includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on climate change, evolution, and even UFOs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo eagerly went along, claiming the high court is preparing to «effectively end public labor unions» — which (sadly) is nonsense on stilts.

In a Sunday Times article, Mr Phillips referred to a High Court case being taken by the National Secular Society and an atheist former councillor challenging the holding of prayers in local council meetings as «nonsense on stilts», and said human rights legislation was undermined by using it to settle «parochial disputes».

The S word - The Labour theory of value is nonsense on stilts.

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And Jeremy Bentham, the founder of British utilitarianism, famously said that «human rights is nonsense - on stilts!»