Sentences with phrase «false equivalence»

When you're a tech journalist who has direct, pre-release access to practically every smartphone the mobile industry releases, you run the risk of subscribing to a version of the false equivalence fallacy: You test and write about all the devices, so you mistakenly begin to see them on somewhat equal footing, at least in terms of brand recognition.

A programme oozing false equivalence that included Nigel Lawson whinging that «sceptics» never get fair coverage — you couldn't make it up!

Joseph, I understand, but they are drawing a false equivalence.

Engage these people if you like, but it does no good to pretend they are not what they are; it feeds false equivalence.

You seem to be trying to make some sort of false equivalence with or alternative explanation for modern warming.

Joshua's comment was just another case of him drawing a false equivalence to act as though there was a contradiction where there was none.

This is false equivalence, being a logical skeptic doesn't promote a large policy except perhaps lighter carbon restrictions which I do support.

TCO, Sorry, I think you are once again asserting a false equivalence between Mann and McIntyre's behaviour, or their contributions for that matter.

If it is, it means media should move their focus from both «consensus» and skeptic blogosphere (including the too - much touted short - term pause), suspend talk of false equivalence, and start hold the consensus side up against a Holocene - paleoclimatology side, both being inside scientific - community sides.

Yet, failure to do so represents a double standard, and it is also false equivalence, because «skeptical» science has been subjected to critique, it has repeatedly shown to be seriously lacking in rigor, repeatability (e.g., Loehle and McCulloch — it is impossible to compare their analysis with other reconstructions, and that is just the start of the problems), and has failed to even meet acceptable scientific standards (e.g., works by Douglass, McLane, Lindzen and Choi, Soon and Baliunas, Carter, de Freitas, McIntyre and McKitrick et cetera).

She then goes in search of a denier, and unsurprisingly finding one, immediately embraces him, going beyond false equivalence (which is bad enough) to actually favor this ill - argued know - nothingism.

Although global warming strikes me as one of those issues where there is no real balance and it is wrong to create an artificial or false equivalence, there is no harm and some possibility of benefit in inviting skeptics about the human contribution and other factors to speak, but in a setting in which the context of the vast majority of scientific evidence and speakers is also made clear.

John Rennie, the former editor in chief of Scientific American, criticized me for engaging in «false equivalence» — a habit that I, and many others, have long criticized, particularly on science stories.

(Both will probably be unhappy that I've put them in the same sentence; this is not about false equivalence, but about gauging the landscape of ideas.

On election night, Peter Dykstra, writing for The Daily Climate, had posted a thorough critique of false equivalence in stories (including in The Times) equating the two efforts to influence races in which coal, climate change or related issues were relevant.

But to me, the debate over whose money mattered more and the warning about false equivalence (which is valid) both miss a factor I've been noting for awhile.

It makes polite non-denialists feel bad for wanting to throw you out the proverbial window and, engage in false equivalence, allowing you to remain and keep misleading the world.

It's because the comparison relies on a false equivalence between the two series.

-LSB-...] Self - vs. traditional publishing = false equivalence Rather, he argues, the choice writers face is between self - publishing and submitting to an agent.

Centrally, Howey tackles the false equivalence made when critics of self publishing snort that most self - published books do not sell many copies.

The movie is actually about two very different groups, on opposite sides of the Mexican - American border, who are fighting the cartels, and Heineman cuts back and forth between them in a way that creates an entirely false equivalence.

Another problem I often see is when people make a false equivalence between andropause and menopause.

In most cases, this appeal is invoked to give false equivalence to a concept like intelligent design, which lacks evidence.

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the $ 800m bid rigging scandal centered around SUNY Polytechnic, SUNY Research Foundation, and state controlled non-profits controlled by his administration.

That's what we call false equivalence.

We are still mulling over what he wrote, but we are struck by how cynical it was for the governor to begin his statement with a long attack on CUNY and an attempt to create a false equivalence between CUNY's problems and the -LSB-...]

Don't lead with the false statement in the headline or the standfirst (the introductory paragraph), and don't succumb to false equivalence («Views on the shape of the Earth differ.»)

Fans are making the false equivalence of his sales tactics with what he really thinks about the team.

That's a false equivalence.

Mr Woodcock added: «Anyone who seeks to draw a false equivalence between this grotesque gassing of their own citizens in Syria risks aiding and abetting this gruesome activity.

But carry on with your false equivalence if that gives you the comfort you seem to need.

I am almost certina that people are driven away by the false equivalence.

Calling it a theory is false equivalence.

sorry yours is a false equivalence.

But false equivalence is also a danger, and arguing that some private conversations that amount to virtually nothing but political scuttle - butt on a range of boring political issues is the same as what Trump has done is ridiculous.

When reports draw a false equivalence between the actual facts and the president's so - called «alternative facts,» then you will know a line has been crossed.

Regardless of the ridiculousness of his claims, media entities felt they had to entertain them in order to disprove them, and in the process got trapped in the quagmire known as «false equivalence.»

Although the FiveThirtyEight founder doesn't mention it (at least not yet), the media's desire for false equivalence or false balance likely played a role in the election's outcome as well.

The election was a perfect storm of misinterpretations, confirmation bias, and false equivalence.

Not exact matches

Very early in the curriculum students are asked whether statements of equivalence are true or false, basically «Are these two values the same or not?»

the equivalence you're always pointing out in your eagerness to impugn skeptics, is false.

Three such approaches appear: a prescriptive approach that requires the use of digital signatures, based on a «false promise» of equivalence to manuscript signatures and «incorrect assurances that digital signatures are secure»; a minimalist approach that does not prescribe any technology, though some countries have followed UNCITRAL in requiring that e-signatures be appropriately reliable; and a hybrid or two - tier approach that allows e-signatures at large for some purposes and requires digital signatures for others.