Sentences with phrase «claims of hoax»

Yesterday, 375 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, posted an open letter reviewing the basics of established climate science, decrying claims of hoax and hype spouted by Republicans during the presidential campaign and warning against the United States pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

President Trump took to Twitter again Wednesday to call claims that his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election a «hoax» and laid out a checklist of issues his administration is working on.

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.

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

After all, if the critics want to argue that the Gospels are a hoax, why could it not also be possible that some first century critic of Christianity would try to undermine this fledgling faith by producing a random set of bones and claiming they were the bones of Jesus?

Many people of differing political identities decried the interview before seeing it because it purportedly gave a platform — and therefore, sense of credibility — to the radio show host, who has claimed and stands by unfounded theories that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax staged by the U.S. government and that Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S., among many other alarming conspiracies claimed without real evidence.

For people to defile it with homosexuality or any of the other 200 + perverted attractions, and claim the «born that way» hoax is just despicable.

(If you enter her name into a YouTube search, most of the top hits are for videos claiming to unmask this «hoax.»)

Shalit has little use for the contingent of conservatives who claim that the misery is a big female hoax and remind us that, after all, «boys will be boys.»

In the face of all the extreme weather we've been getting, and all the supporting science for man - caused climate change, she claims climate change is a hoax.

It's hard to keep track of which of these are real and which were proved to be hoaxes like Piltdown Man and others with false claims like Lucy.

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.

If, as Perry has claimed, climate change is a baseless hoax, it makes no sense that he should advocate for a technology explicitly designed to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants for the sole purpose of averting the warming effect of those emissions.

But while UFO claims are often hoaxes or the work of conspiracy theorists, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence — alien life just as smart and technologically advanced as humans — is a legitimate scientific field.

Set in London in 1921, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), author of the popular book «Seeing Through Ghosts,» has devoted her career to exposing claims of the supernatural as nothing but hoaxes.

But there is more going on, something even more malevolent behind the scenes, and at the urging of the Church the Warrens come out of their self - imposed seclusion to learn whether or not the Hodgson's claims of a supernatural assault are genuine or are instead nothing more than an elaborate hoax.

His Wikipedia entry currently devotes four paragraphs to unrealized projects, three to a lamebrained Sci - Fi Channel hoax documentary produced to promote The Village, five to his reliance on twist endings and seemingly unfounded plagiarism claims, and mere passing mention of The Sixth Sense.

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.

All hoaxes, as Diane Ravitch would put it, all of which he is advancing in this Op - Ed without any research evidence whatsoever in support, but because he «believes» in the claims he advances.

In her book, Reign of Error, The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education system.

And guaranties that the cited above G8 deal is dead on arrival... Not that the deal will change anything, except for UK government which has been fantastic on Carbon reductions, The Senator and acolytes would have trouble explaining the disappearing Arctic Ocean ice, not that someone is capable of «Hoaxing» vanishing multi year ice, and even further, failing to match their statements with Polar ice disappearing in tandem with world wide temperatures being flat, not rising for ten years now, as they like to claim, how to explain the disappearing ice then??? Those trying to explain a long term cycle, beware!

And if Skolnick is accurate in his claim that «Pete Ridley is a global warming denier who argues that the «global warming hoax» is being perpetrated by the International Jewish Banking conspiracy led by the Rothschilds», then you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself... however politically charged this issue, such anti-Semite views are disgusting.

If that were ever partly true, AGW researchers» claims of a 97 % consensus would be rightly be outed as nothing less than propaganda to help prop up the hoax and scare tactics of the Left.

Rather, the story claimed that thousands of scientists had come forward to declare that climate change was a hoax.

The short version of it is Senator Ted Cruz displayed two charts created by Steven Goddard, a pseudononymous blogger who is well known for frequently claiming global warming is a hoax and accusing people of commiting fraud to promote it, without saying what the source for the charts were.

And Trump's issues page bluntly declares, «Climate change: It is a hoax,» a claim worthy of a Pants on Fire.

I believe that I have established an error in the methodology of the paper — NASA faked the moon Landings [therefore] climate science is a Hoax — Psychological Science, which impacts on a key claim of the paper.

Global warming skeptics, the internet over, are using the (illegal) hacking to claim that global warming is a hoax, full of fudged data and dishonest, conspiratorial scientists.

so, I guess my explanations referring to the scientific status of knowledge helps a bit to understand why Holmes» claim is a hoax and to prevents public from junk - science distributed by climate deniers.

He then claimed, for the first time, that the paper was a hoax, because he was forced to remove 40 pages of criticism of the seminal Mann, Bradley Hughes ’99 hockey stick graph before it could be published.

recent video - taped admission by the head of Greenpeace that the claim that Greenland would lose its ice in 20 years was merely a propaganda hoax!

Yet some of the most frequently repeated claims made by those engaged in the climate change disinformation campaign have been outright untruths about such things as the claim that the entire scientific basis for human induced climate change is a hoax or that there is no evidence of human causation.

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

The climate change disinformation machine widely claimed that this controversy demonstrated that several key scientists fraudulently developed some key elements of the science on which the consensus view rests demonstrating that the consensus view was a complete hoax, even though the documents that were at the center of the controversy never were foundational to the consensus view and the scientists at the center of the controversy were exonerated by many independent investigations of the controversy.

Hence, the title of the paper «NASA faked the moon landing — Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science ``, which claimed to find a correlation between belief in the principle of a free - market, rejection of climate change science and «conspiracy ideation».

And outlets from Time to CNN cited the hoax claim and tried to make sense of Trump's nonsensical climate views.

If the warmest year was nearly certainly one of the more recent years, very likely to be one of the last two years, then their claims about a climate hoax just ring pretty hollow.

So rather than claiming that climate science is a hoax, a fraud or fundamentally flawed, they now say the proposed climate policies will have little, if any, impact on the planet's temperature gauge and are therefore a waste of time and money.

Senator James Inhofe, R - Ok, who has consistently claimed that the mainstream scientific view on climate is a «hoax,» said the Obama plan will cost the US economy $ 400 billion a year while ranting about other aspects of the Obama climate plan.

The rise of the environmental movement began in the 1970s, but really took off in the 1980s with the greatest hoax of the modern era, the claim based entirely on corrupt computer models and astonishingly stupid «science», that the Earth was within a decade, then twenty, then fifty years, of being destroyed by the rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

Now of course «skeptics» are going to claim that this is an effort at mass indoctrination and an attempt to force their dogma / ideology / hoax / communist world government onto society.

Some of them deny it is even warming, others claim anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a hoax, others claim that there is some magical negative feedback that will result in virtually no warming, others like Lewis cherry pick literature to delude themselves into thinking that climate sensitivity is low, while others are convinced that an ice age is imminent;)

Watch Inhofe, who claims climate change is the «greatest hoax ever perpetrated,» call all sorts of hearings around the issue of climate change and embolden like - minded conspiracy theorists and deniers - for - hire.

I've seen a lot of nonsense passed around here without any of the locals calling it out, from silly stuff about «climategate» (talk about hoaxes) to claims about deliberate fraud and financial motives (while the Koch brothers go on funding denialist think tanks and the «populist» tea party...).

President Donald Trump, for example, has claimed global warming is a «hoax,» and he has named well - known climate deniers to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, among other posts.

Of these, many claim that climate - change is a hoax staged by scientists and environmentalists [18 — 20], ostensibly to yield research income.

That's not to say that there aren't any clean energy startups (or startups in general) that mislead the public about the claims of their products, or that there aren't any scams or hoaxes in the green energy field, but rather that it's easy to take a quick look and say something's a scam, even if you're only talking about a company that overpromises and underdelivers on its marketing claims.

Russia Today is an uncritical purveyor of conspiracy theories and frequently interviews American and British conspiracists who claim that global warming is a «hoax,» too.