Sentences with phrase «disingenuous arguments»

It's a cynical effort to put forward disingenuous arguments, often to attack the integrity of the scientists themselves to try to discredit their findings, not because of a belief that the science is wrong but because of the threat that the science opposes to vested interests.

Point taken, but I'd argue that in any corner of the internet where these types of discussions are held quickly turn into some of the nastiest, most disingenuous arguments held in bad faith that you'll ever find online.

· AFC Press Release: Education Reform Leaders: Union Official's Disingenuous Argument Ignorant of History, «Spat in the face» of Parents and Students of Color

The most disingenuous argument put forth by charter school foes is the claim they will take money out of other classrooms.

It is a false, disingenuous argument.

Arguments of the direct replacement of the equivalent BTU's is a disingenuous argument since the only thing being replaced is the electricity generated.

Conflating anonymous comments on others» blogs with writings by those who publish anonymously with a pseudonym is specious reasoning, at best, and often a disingenuous argument by lawyers smart enough to know better.

Not exact matches

The most disingenuous aspect of creationism is that is alleges evidentiary problems with evolution (generally, nothing more than arguments of incredulity based in arguments of ignorance), but then invariably requires invocation of magic to patch up their «legitimate alternative.»

You called me out as being disingenuous when I said «that as time goes on however, I'm finding things that are helping to disprove things previously held as fact among Christians», so I have provided you an example that not only wasn't it a disingenuous statement, but that I've done my homework, on both sides of the argument, and came up with something that no one has been able to give me a response with even either the slightest chance of being possible, or falling back to the old status qua of «mysterious ways» and «having faith».

The argument «the programs are ineffective» is disingenuous by nature because no money or will is allocated to fix them.

Apologetic arguments can in fact come across as disingenuous and insincere.

You know that we see right through this intellectually disingenuous line of argument, right?

Your argument is disingenuous.

If so, any argument about him needing more work on something is disingenuous.

The Greens — part of the coalition to pass the legislation in NYC — also said that plastic bag fees work and that the arguments made by State Senator Simcha Felder and his cosponsors were disingenuous to the public and their actions harmful to the environment.

Judge Robert Wiggins writes in a ruling filed on Nov. 18 that the state's arguments are «disingenuous.»

What they are doing is a perfectly acceptable political mechanism that has been used numerous times in the past by both republicans and democrats; thus this pathetic argument about them not doing their jobs etc is completely disingenuous because they are, in fact, doing their jobs.

The argument that economic growth helps fight poverty is disingenuous and misguided, says economist Andrew Simms

There are a few on - target jabs at the music industry, but in the end, Dreamgirls is blind and empty glorification of that most disingenuous of businesses masquerading as art (although the argument could be made that they don't even try to fake the art function anymore).

The most frustrating thing about Diane Ravitch's new book, Reign of Error, isn't the way she twists the evidence on school choice or testing, or her condescending tone toward leaders trying to improve educational outcomes, or her clever but disingenuous rhetorical arguments.

After more than a decade of resistance to NCLB by the education establishment, I find something disingenuous about the argument that schools ought not to be held accountable to the standards states themselves set for grade - level student achievement.

Yet as even a non-reader of Bayard's book will have intuited, Bayard's argument is très disingenuous.

Counting the top 1 % from the traditional route and everything from the self - published route creates a weighted argument and is disingenuous.

Aloha E, your argument that stocks are a bad investment is disingenuous.

While there may be reasonable arguments against CAPE, claiming it's BS sort of doesn't fly when your own peaches analogy seems a bit disingenuous itself.

Another reason that argument is a cop out is because it is so disingenuous.

This argument is disingenuous at best.

Well, actually what it demonstrates is that those making the argument are either ignorant or disingenuous.

In fact, Eric Carlson's disingenuous comment by itself seems like a good argument in favor of a strong carbon standard.

We both know that kim is being disingenuous, but the response that a bunch of non-researchers also believe in AGW is more of a political argument than a substantive one.

There may be various good arguments in regards to Thomas 2004 and Miles 2004, as one would expect for any preliminary predictions of the future, but criticizing a studied sample on the simple basis that it is a just sample is disingenuous.

Using the lowest estimates justified disingenuous can buy to «influence those that do control the pickers are» is no better than your caricature of Very Tall's argument.

Before I get to the classic disingenuous conservative argument that is the cornerstone of Goklany's essay, I must first deal with one of the most astonishing statements ever seen in a serious climate debate.

But that is a spurious argument for I was stating that the extermination of the MWP by the AGW / CO2 promoters is disingenuous.

This sort of argument is quite disingenuous.

The argument seems to be that Curry uses models therefore her critique of climate models is disingenuous.

That they change their arguments on a whim is standard practice for disingenuous people with an agenda.

I think you're being disingenuous here, by subtly changing the argument.

Unfortunately, that argument is disingenuous.

As someone who knows several realtors and has listened to them boast about how easy the business is once they've established themselves in a particular community, I find the arguments put forward by realtors (in this forum and in the media) to be disingenuous and misleading.