Sentences with phrase «hoax about»

His name is so tied to Ethereum, that there was a death hoax about him on June 25, 2017 that caused a flash crash in the price over Ethereum.

Perhaps Internet trolls created another hoax about Vitalik Buterin's death.

Someone, somewhere started a hoax about a deadly substance which terrorists are, apparently, desperately trying to get their hands on.

I make no bones about the fact that I am determined to stamp out the hoax about carbon dioxide having any warming effect, because it is a travesty of physics, a huge cost to society and, indirectly, causes thousands of deaths.

Meanwhile, on this side of the Pond, this massive hoax about global warming that isn't happening is causing all manner of weird effects in dear old Blighty's wildlife.

We generally welcome efforts to dispel e-mail hoaxes about microwaving with plastics, but Julie Deardorff's recent column («Internet hoax on plastic does leak some truth,» Q, June 11) only adds to the confusion.

The Bali provincial administration has accused countries that have destinations similar to Bali of spreading hoaxes about the impact of the volcanic activity at Mount Agung in trying benefit from recent disruption.

Ever since the first rumors about the NX came out there have been a variety of rumors and hoaxes about what it will look like, what it can do, what its controller looks like, and more.

Not exact matches

During his campaign, Trump also called global warming a hoax and promised to quit a global accord to cut greenhouse gas emissions, though he has since softened his stance and said he is keeping an «open mind» about the deal.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

Trump has repeatedly called the Russia probe a «hoax,» and during the transition attacked the intelligence community's warnings about Russian intervention.

As I tried to explain in a previous post about Trump's rise, he took advantage of a media landscape that has never been more broken, more fragmented and more open to misinformation, disinformation, and even outright hoaxes and lies.

After Republican Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race Tuesday, numerous media outlets are raising questions about whether hoax news played a notable role in the candidate's rise and in stoking sharp divisions among users of differing political views.

Joshua Benton, head of the Nieman Journalism Lab, described in a recent essay how residents of the small Louisiana town he was raised in posted and re-posted hoaxes and false news reports about Hillary Clinton and other topics on Facebook.

Our goal is to reduce these hoaxes just like we fight other scams on our platform, but I want us to be especially careful about never being arbiters of truth ourselves — which is why we're working with third - party fact - checkers.

After weeks of denying that the spread of viral «fake news» stories was a problem that it needed to be concerned about, Facebook (fb) has finally announced some concrete measures designed to blunt the force of hoaxes and misinformation, including a partnership with external fact - checking organizations who call out fakes.

That bias manifested Sunday as the promotion of hoax news stories about Megyn Kelly getting fired from Fox News for supporting Hillary Clinton.

---------- Chris MacDonald: Your new book, The Authenticity Hoax, is about the way our pursuit of authenticity is in many ways the pursuit of a mirage, and you argue that the pursuit of it is ultimately not just futile, but destructive.

Cramer considers himself a climate - change skeptic, but would likely steer Trump towards more neutral territory from his brash comments during the campaign about how the whole climate change thing is a hoax.

Some, like neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, dismissed the idea that the Parkland shooting was a hoax but nonetheless attacked the students who have spoken about gun control.

And we've got web artists and hoax practitioners actively trying to fool the media to write about whatever the hell they want, just to get a rise out of people (it's fitting that a performance artist is behind the «National Anthem» plot.

«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.

To James, who seems to think he's scored some kind of point with allegations about the Piltdown Man and falsified research, who exactly do you think found out that those were hoaxes and cheatings?

... Enough said... Think about that one... We are not Perfect beings therefore Religion is far from being perfect... We can see this throughout History and even into the 21st century Religion is A Controlled Evil... Biggest Controlled Beauracracy Hoax over Man's Self yet - is Religion... Brilliantly orchestrated I must say though... Only the Weak Minded can be controlled by Religion... Blessed Be... 696969

The more you know about religion and the supposed evidence for a god, the more obvious it becomes what a big hoax it's been on humans for the past thousands of years!

Religious insti.tutions make grandiose and false claimes about historical events or «miracles» that aren't miracles at all, science has been able to wrap each one up as false, hoax or true but because of natural laws that have no need of a diety.

Morally, then, we can no longer ignore the troublesome issues about the redistribution of wealth; plans for improvement without accompanying demands for social and political reform are a cruel hoax.

The long and short of it is that the big to - do last spring about the rash of black church burnings turns out to have been pretty much of a hoax.

Van Hagar sez: «Scientology is worthy of simple dismissal because it is clearly a hoax — its history, its leadership, its tactics — its a business in the guise of a religion, no ands, ifs or buts about it.»

The one good thing about this farce is that it may head off at least some of the Doomsday cult hoaxes that are going to be triggered in 2012.

When science makes a claim about a particular fossil being a hoax, or that perpetual motion machinery isn't a worthwhile endeavor, they don't shut down the entire discipline..

I had about much faith in this hoax as I do in most modern day religious group who claim anything if people did read the bible they would know before the rapture can happen Israel has to rebuild their temple on it original soil which is still held by 2 other groups.

This whole issue reminds me of a little Colorado boy in a baloon... a bunch of good concerned people worried about a hoax.

Then how about we teach the theory that the Holocaust was a hoax and never happened.

The transfer window is not yet open and the fans are going crazy already about signings, Fans read too much into these hoax stories from the press, i mean come on, how many players have been linked with Arsenal during the lat few weeks?

A very short redemption story in Michigan: Two tea - party - backed former lawmakers who had an affair, and then attempted to cover it up with a hoax letter about a male prostitute, are hoping for a second chance in the Legislature.

De Blasio said NYPD officials «are smart about realizing that many hoaxes come along and they should not be dignified.»

The advisory turned heads for more reasons than just the news value of Ms. Moskowitz saying something about her political plans — on Twitter, many reporters wondered if the press release was perhaps a hoax.

I used to use the dihydrogen monoxide hoax on the first day of a class I taught about the public perception of science.

Here are some ideas about how to conduct a good science hoax:

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Again, it's not just about the hoax itself but also about the network.

Many of the representatives at COP 22 are worried about a Trump presidency because he has called climate change a «hoax,» pledged to «cancel» the Paris agreement, repeal many of Pres. Barack Obama's climate initiatives and has promised to revive the U.S. coal industry.

As he pulls out drawers and talks about the casts, Meldrum shows ones with the hallmarks of hoax and others that intrigue him because of anatomy, hair striations, musculature and an apparent midtarsal break — a pair of joints in the middle of the ape foot that have less mobility in the human foot because of the arch.

Added a page about the ICR and an April Fools hoax.

«It's a hoax,» she had told me in a conversation about the detox industry.

Aspartame received its bad reputation after several e-mail hoaxes spread throughout the internet about its alleged disease causing properties like cancer and multiple sclerosis.

This stuff takes a certain about of patient don't take it for a couple of weeks and label it «hoax».

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