Sentences with phrase «hoax claiming»

It started to work, but was then undercut by an Internet hoax claiming that Ethereum's founder, Vitalik Buterin, is dead.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Trump claimed before taking office that climate change was a «hoax» created by the Chinese to hurt the U.S. economy.

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.

A former Florida Atlantic University professor who claimed he was fired in retaliation for blogging that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax lost his bid to get his job back.

A former Florida Atlantic University professor is not entitled to a new trial over his claim that he was fired in retaliation for calling the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax, a judge ruled Tuesday.

This WH statement on new climate report is a far cry from Trump's claim that climate change is a «hoax» pic.twitter.com / EdnqaTEnaM

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.»)

We have religious nuts claiming Science is a hoax, and science nuts claiming that just because I figured this little thing out it means there is no God.

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.»

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.

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.

For mainstream academics, those who take the view that Jesus was a hoax belong in the same category as those who claim that the moon landings were faked.

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.

«The continued claim by President Akufo - Addo and his acolytes that they have fulfilled their Universal Free SHS for all promise is simply hypocritical... By its inability to roll out Free SHS to cover those in second and third years, the NPP has only successfully vindicated those who said Akufo - Addo's Free SHS promise was a hoax.

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.

The claim that Polo introduced noodles to Europe is also a hoax — though more plausible than the first televised April Fool's prank: In 1957 the BBC showed spaghetti being harvested from trees.

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.

The Catholic Church, working alongside Ed and Lorraine, need verification that the claims are not a hoax in order to become involved in the matter.

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.

«Resurrected,» claims Beth's parents; «Zombie,» claims Zach, after initially presuming it must be terrible 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.

What is also interesting about this supposed law is that many folks claim their State has that same law, so this reinforces my belief that this is just an Internet hoax.

If you hadn't already guessed swatting is where somebody puts in an anonymous hoax call to the emergency services, offering up enough serious claims to have a SWAT team dispatched.

Hack Lizard claimed it perpetrated the PSN attacks and was behind a bomb threat hoax, though another group may have really been behind the PSN outage.

While the owner claimed it was the real deal, many video game historians speculated the game was a hoax due to a 1990 production date visible on the cartridge.

Some claim the manuscript is a hoax.

If science is subjective, then RC has no claim to being any more truthful than WUWT and Global Warming really is a hoax.

But you didn't answer my point — so try again: If someone claims that the science is a hoax but in fact it turns out to very real and very impactful, what «accountability» should be applied?

The book cites a KGB defector who claims that nuclear winter was a KGB 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.

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!

It's when they make more outrageous claims, such as asserting the hoax has been revealed or referring to climate scientists as «jihadists»...

A final fact that is most astounding and perplexing, there are many who claim to be fighting against climate engineering which are actually parroting the preferred propaganda prepared by the power structure itself, that «global warming is a hoax» or even more ridiculous, that the «planet is cooling».

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.

It was in this hearing that Inhofe made his notorious claim that «manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.»

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.