Sentences with phrase «factoid out»

But was it really true that waxing was leading to diminished pubic - lice populations, or just a case of the media blowing an obscure medical factoid out of proportion?

Molyneux admitted he's pulled more than one videogame factoid out of his ass to keep press junkets interesting, adding, «I could name at least 10 features in games that I've made up to stop journalists going to sleep and I really apologize to the team for that.»

While the IPCC analyzes the issue using relevant peer - reviewed science, the NIPCC offers the tiniest slice of information possible, cherry - picked factoids out of context and without regard to the overall picture.

Not exact matches

To put some numbers to those factoids, 12 percent of women, and 7 percent of men, would pretend to be sick in order to get out of making a presentation; 70 percent of those surveyed said presentations are critical to their career success.

Before tacitly or explicitly endorsing an outside opinion or factoid, consider first of all whether it is actually borne out through your own research, and second of all, consider what you accomplish by repeating it.

(published February 2007 by SPCK), does not set out to answer each and every one of Dawkins's «aggregation of convenient factoids, suitably overstated to achieve maximum impact.»

Dave DeWitt and yours truly will be rolling out our new book: Dave DeWitt's Chile Trivia: Weird, Wacky Factoids for Curious Chileheads.

There's also the inconvenient little factoid that this is simply the continuation of a Labour policy first rolled out in 2009 http://www.smarthealthcare.com/111-pilot-09jul09 But Andy Burnham is from t «north so that's OK then.

, I'll try to pull out some of the interesting factoids from the study throughout today.

Datopia.com really is a blend of multiple social networking sites into a dating site and they use their twitter feed to pump out tons of celebrity news and dating related factoids.

And people will throw out factoids about how many movies ever won without a director nominations (three) until your ears bleed.

Interesting factoid: Highway safety researchers say that the sooner roads are plowed, sanded, and salted, the sooner more motorists venture out... and get into accidents.

As Kindle lover Chen is apt to point out, the Kindle 2 is just half the weight of the DX, but I counter with this lazy man's factoid: Even using a slightly larger font, I can see the equivalent of two and a half Kindle 2 pages on a DX screen.

There is also an extensive franchise section where you can find out all manner of statistical information about your favorite team, along with almanac - like capsules presenting interesting factoids.

In those posts I pointed out some important factoids regarding both programs, but I never did a point by point analysis of how to actually obtain Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Check out these amazing cat factoids and see for yourself:

She's got a fistful of factoids straight out of the animal kingdom, and she's dropping some mad science about panda poop and narwhal horns.

I can't verify if this is one hundred percent true or not, (mainly because I don't want to Google it just to find out that it's not true — I like this factoid, even if it's as fake as Britney Spears» singing voice) but I read somewhere that the guys at GamePro couldn't beat a single level of that game, leading several forum members to unofficially dub them GameNoob.

Morano's entire job is to aggregate every misleading factoid, every attack on climate science or scientists, every crank skeptical statement from anyone in the world and send it all out periodically in email blasts that get echoed throughout the right - wing blog world and eventually find their way into places like Fox News and the Weekly Standard.

Sifting out the facts from the factoids usually leaves an unsatisfactory result — unsettled questions, way too much uncertainty, vague understandings.

oldfossil == > You are right — one must realize when your own viewpoint is represented by factoids (facts plus opinions or hypotheses) and make some attempt to sort out the difference «twixt the two.

My understanding of the post is that if one seives out factoids and spin on science matters (not politics), there are still alternative facts.

Those answers ruled out «fake news», but left «alternative facts» and «factoids» as possibilities.

You see, scientists use many methods of measuring and that is why when someone throws out meaningless factoids such as «the world is cooling» based on a very short time period, you need to look deeper.

Even if he accurately quoted the one little factoid he is so exercised about, it is one little token of data taken out of context and misused to bolster a vacuous argument.

The vultures who use technology in an effort to infiltrate the practice of law and medicine, to circumvent the judgment and advice that distinguishes what real professionals do versus the bot that spits out factoids, want to convince you that they are the future, that they own the future, that they own us.

They toss factoids galore into the manager's blender; the manager presses «puree,» and out comes... mush.

The lessons are laid out with vivid images, illustrations and factoids.

As we're busy heaping praise on the Google Pixel, one interesting factoid has come out that suggest what Google does next might really blow the iPhone away.