Sentences with phrase «as hoaxes»

He investigates stories of the supernatural and exposes them as hoaxes, or as events that can be explained by scientific phenomena.

Even if Facebook does want to stamp out fake news, it has to rely on human beings to flag those stories as hoaxes.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- For years, President Donald Trump pushed back against the idea of election meddling, dismissing it as a hoax and an affront to the legitimacy of his victory.

While the company has reportedly put itself up for sale, so far no suitor has agreed to a deal, though a fake takeover bid in May 2015 briefly sent Avon's (AVP) shares surging 20 % before the offer was revealed as a hoax (and the shares promptly resumed their downward trend).

Now we have a president who famously described climate change as a hoax advanced by the Chinese to undermine the US economy.

Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he thinks there is «some connectivity» between human activity and global warming, despite previously describing climate change as a hoax.

Russia and Syria dismiss as a hoax the claims that the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al - Assad used chemical weapons in the rebel - held enclave of Douma on April 7.

«Mr. Trump's false, defamatory statements about Ms. Zervos — that, among other things, she made up her descriptions of Mr. Trump's misconduct as a hoax, and that she is creating a «phony» story just so that she can be famous — have been deeply detrimental to Ms. Zervos's reputation, honor and dignity,» the suit states.

So while I can admit that MAYBE, an item or two could be done as a hoax... can YOU admit... that those who want to prove them as hoaxes, ALSO have an agenda of their own, and could be telling you that something is a hoax when it's really not.

You do realize that the whole «fetus goes through evolutionary stages» was disproved as a hoax long ago, don't you?

In that pseudo-scholarly publishing sensation, Michael Baigent and colleagues argued, on the basis of documents found in the Bibliothèque de Nationale but later exposed as a hoax, that the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene were part of the Merovingian royal line of the early Middle Ages.

Harpur (and Kuhn) seem to reject Christianity as a hoax and seek to replace it with gnostism or early egyptian mystery religion.

The tweet was soon uncovered as a hoax when «OurMine», a security company, admitted to the hacking, saying:

We are also left with deep disappointment because President - elect Trump has attacked climate change as a hoax.

Initially he suggested Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK, perpetuated the myth of Obama not being born in the United States (which he later conceded) and repeatedly claimed climate change as a hoax all of which are the preserve of fake news websites.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday in Abuja, described as hoax the alarm raised by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers that his life was being threatened.

Even so, publishing that Gould has erred will inevitably bring joy to racists, much as the unmasking of the Piltdown man fossil as a hoax is a continuing source of glee to creationists, despite the abundant evidence falsifying both creationism and the pseudo-science of racism.

A third - century coin, recently excavated in southern England, has brought to light an unknown chapter of Roman history: the troubled reign of Domitianus, an emperor whose hold on power was so fleeting that the only other archaeological evidence of his existence is a similar coin found a century ago and dismissed as a hoax.

In the West, scientists from nuclear weapons establishments have tended to write off red mercury as a hoax.

In contrast, Trump's Twitter messages use «global warming» more often than «climate change» and often characterize global warming as a hoax.

President Trump has dismissed global warming as a hoax, snubbed the Paris emissions pact and scrapped U.S. EPA climate rules.

July 31, 2004 Added A look at Piltdown Man on the 50th anniversary of its exposure as a hoax, by paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer.

It has since been regarded as a hoax in some quarters and claims made about a number of schools named in the letter have been deemed groundless.

The threats, which are being treated by police as a hoax, warn...

While concerns have been raised about the ability of readers with a political agenda to «block» legitimate news by flagging it as hoax - worthy content, other sources have said it's about time users had steps to take to help prevent comedic attempts from being misconstrued as factual content.

If a Turner prize winner called 999 to report an art critic falling off a mountain, would it be treated as a hoax?

The first fall show at New York's Essex Street Gallery is devoted to paintings by the fictitious Vern Blosum, supposedly a Denver native who lived in Illinois and was invented as a hoax, according to the gallery, by an unnamed artist who finished his studies in New York in 1961.

This will piss off his party and the calamity as hoax theorists — as the first comment shows.

In this case those who attacked The Times's article as a hoax would have better applied that particular criticism to themselves.

For those out there seeing any talk of a human warming influence as a hoax, it's also useful to note that this intellectual tussle over climate sensitivity is over how much human - produced greenhouse gases will warm the world, not if they can do so.

But Perry joins a growing list of increasingly mainstream candidates who hold extreme views about climate that aren't anchored in reality: Michele Bachmann is a famous climate naysayer, and Ron Paul has also described global warming as a hoax.

Rick Perry has kept himself busy since announcing his intention to run for president — after calling for a moratorium on all new regulations and referring to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke as «treasonous», he publicly derided climate change as a hoax perpetrated by scheming, data - manipulating scientists.

Imagine how the electorate will turn when the carbon paradigm is revealed as a hoax, and they won't have to believe that their desire for cheap energy is a venal sin.

And I've also pointed out that since I find you all to be wrong about 99 % of everything else we've discussed, I would be quite remiss, if not insane, to take your word for global warming as a hoax, or even as false.

New research finds even a brief exposure to a film that portrays climate change as a hoax impacts people's attitudes and intentions.

In the first presidential debate, though the moderator disappointingly failed to ask a question about was is arguably the single most critical issue facing human civilization today — human - caused climate change — the Democratic nominee for President, Hillary Clinton, forced the issue herself by calling out Donald Trump for his denial of climate change, noting that he, for example, in a past tweet dismissed climate change as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese (indeed Trump has posted at least a half - dozen climate change - denying tweets over the past few years).

Whether dismissing global warming as a hoax, questioning humanity's role in it, exaggerating the unknowns, playing down the urgency of action, or playing up the

Whether dismissing global warming as a hoax, questioning humanity's role in it, exaggerating the unknowns, playing down the urgency of ac...

Political hot buttons and polarizing figures are absent, apart from a few television clips of bloviating pundits (and Senator James Inhofe's infamous description of climate change as a hoax).

He preferred «State of Fear» by sci - fi author Michael Crichton («Jurassic Park»), which portrays global warming as a hoax.

The insanity continues as the hoax lies of the MSM continue daily.

You've also categorised climate science as a hoax and a fraud.

Tedious as it may be to read, the effort to go through each scientist's testimony — here (Lindzen's begins at pg 27), here, (Lindzen resumes at pg 3, Michaels begins at 10) and here (Idso at pg 3, Balling at 17)-- reveals that none of them offered anything remotely close to simple dismissal of global warming as a hoax.

Appeared in documentary «The Great Global Warming Swindle» which portrays global warming as a hoax.

the framing of climate - change as a hoax creates needless uncertainty in public discourse, and increases the risk of damaging inertia instead of corrective action.

The dismissal of scientific findings as a hoax also has a political element; a 2011 study found conservative white males in the US were far more likely than other Americans to deny climate change [6].

Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Disruption / Carbon Pollution could easily be mistaken as a Hoax, given the constant name changing and how it is portrait as causing everything from shrinking penises to the potential extinction of coffee trees

Now that Dr. Gray has labeled al - Gore's global warming paranoia as a hoax that we will all feel foolish about in a few years, I wonder what all you libs say now?

Nathan Thornburgh, a DadWagon reporter who also writes about Russia for Time magazine, last week pulled back the curtains to reveal the woman behind «Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina,» a video - gone - viral that initially was widely regarded as a hoax and that was later pulled from YouTube, which deemed it too disturbing even for its seasoned, seen - it - all viewers.

However, there is still substantial scepticism in the cryptocurrency community, where his assertions are broadly dismissed as a hoax.