Sentences with phrase «more of a strawman»

Not exact matches

«electronic format is much more versatile (read on virtually any device)» - isn't this a bit of a strawman once we consider that the alternative to «virtually any device will do» is «no device is required in the first place»?

This doesn't mean that regulators should never close a school or should ignore test results (both of which are strawman arguments), but they should be significantly more humble about what they really know about school quality.

Someone writes a guest post on RC and then for eternity it's a done deal and assumed «true» when it was little more than egregious incompetent SPIN more worthy of a biased politician than a couple of biased scientists obviously incapable of thinking holistically and unable to stop creating fraudulent Strawmen arguments out of thin air trying to prove they are «right» and the other is «wrong».

Latimer, you have no excuse to keep dwelling on the terminology, and I have already posted cites that say changing the pH far less than the strawman point of a pH of 7 is bad, but here's more.

«Willis builds a strawman Willis makes a logical fallacy known as the strawman fallacy here, when he says: The current climate paradigm says that the surface air temperature is a linear function of the «forcing»... Change in Temperature (∆ T) = Change in Forcing (∆ F) times Climate Sensitivity What he seems to have done is taking an equation relating to a simple energy balance model (probably from this Wikipedia entry) and applied it to the much more complex climate system.

So if you are losing the science and policy wars, create a strawman of an entity that can be more easily made into a charicature (sp?).

So please, no more of that timewasting strawman.

Though that is more a philosophical than a practically useful statement, and it's not the same as claiming that «AGW caused this», which many of Gleick's opponents are arguing against (i.e. strawman).

The suggestion that scientists were in it to get rich would have to be one of the more amusing strawman arguments seen in this debate.

So even if my reading is the «strawman» reading and yours is «the one true reading», this would still tell us something about whether attempts to persuade in that matter are more likely to influence the target of the communication to take an open minded view on evidence or more likely to influence them in the other direction.

, quotes out of context, repeating the same tired debunked arguments year after year... The only difference is that the ideology behind it is a little more popular — the strawman liberal is apparently a more plausible villain to most people than the strawman atheist.

Curry might say something about the» 76 - ’78 warm phase, but either climate sensitivity is no more her expertise than many amateur bloggers or she is intentionally muddying the waters with a long screed about Balmaseda reanalysis and attacking the strawman of «hiatus = missing heat».

I will say though, on further thought, that what particularly annoyed me about Alex's piece was that he presented such a cartoonish strawman as the position of the Canadian government and, more generally, Israel's defenders.