Sentences with phrase «of a straw man there»

«Annual caps on immigration are unnecessary and could exclude people with valuable skills, the Communities Secretary has said... John Denham has said the Government does not support the idea as applicants with something to contribute should get the chance to come to Britain... «We don't think population is going to go to 70 million, so there is a bit of a straw man there,» he said.»

Good use of the straw man there, Brendan.

Not exact matches

For you to suggest that there may be some other «valid» interpretation if one takes into consideration the «historical / cultural context of scripture», is to invoke a straw man logical fallacy.

For example, there is an article about «Bible analyst John McTernan,» who makes a great straw man for Salon — though no one I know has ever heard of him or his foolish comments.

If all the comments on belief blog were a cartoon there would be a Scotsman (not a true one), there would be a straw man on fire, and there would be Hitler (for the Hitler card) and the three of them would be used as tennis balls being batted back and forth between the opposing sides.

The wise men were there with a handful of shepherds, and of course in the midst of them all the Christ child was there, lying in the straw.

i do nt think ive ever been soo disgusted and outraged to be an arsenal fan and this is definitly the final straw with me and wenger, sanogoals does nt score welbeck does nt score and giroud only scores against small teams, there have been genuine quality p [layers on the market and due to pig headedness stuborness and lack of ambition weve allowed ourselves to watch them go elsewhere and sign a man u reject!

There are in fact very few commentators who postulate the «doomsday» scenario Alex offers up as a straw - man argument through his process of selective quoting.

The statement to petition signatories also perpetuated a straw man argument that the Ministry of Justice has pushed all along - the only consistent line they've had - which is that there is no blanket ban on books.

«Singh bent over backward to try to use the same assays as published, allowing her to knock down what I consider to be a real straw man but that nonetheless was out there,» says retrovirologist John Coffin of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

If you're growing impatient for model - bashing, no fear; there's a whole chapter for you (Chapter 4: «Climate Models are Not Reliable»), which offers up the usual mix of straw man descriptions of how climate models actually work, and red herrings about supposedly missing feedbacks and processes.

I dislike the straw man argument that states there is black magic or violations of Thermodynamic Laws at play here... this diet «fixes» appetite in many patients who have metabolic disorders.

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

He's creating a straw man here, saying that there's something to be gained by consistency across every market in regard to criticisms of pricing vs. cost of production.

«Conservative pundits are quick to cite what I think of as a straw man — that there's some kind of leftist boogeyman coming to take away the Second Amendment, and to my knowledge, there never has actually been one,» the artist Joshua... Read More

There is something gloriously self - referential about playing the straw man card in a post in which you, for no apparent reason, explicitly re-interpret «quite conceivable» to mean «kind of likely», then call it «magical thinking», quote a psych text in case we don't know what magical thinking is and dismiss it out of hand.

What you are trying to do (besides set up a straw man), is to say there is a terrible dearth of physical evidence to work with.

There is not necessarily correlation between them, obviously, and Warmists tend to jump from alarmism about one, to predictions of doom about another, depending on which particular straw man suits their current situation.

There is no inference that the insulating material is the source of the heating, so you are stubbornly battling a straw - man.

And you are setting up a straw man: There are no predictions to have come true, only scenarios, the accuracy of which help to refine models further in the future.

I think we largely agree on most of the facts and even on some of the politics, there is a tendency to exaggerate climate science by deniers (to have a convenient straw man), by journalists and greens (because they think hyperbole will get them more attention).