The point of the hoax, Lundgard told the Gothamist, who picked up the story only to later correct it, was to ask which was more expendable, Cooper Union's long tradition «dedicated to the value of tuition - free, merit - based education, or a three year old trophy building that is partially responsible for the Institution's current fiscal turmoil?»
Keep the faith — at
this point of the hoax it's all you got... that and a bunch of self - styled «lion - tamers of the government education complex who have jumped ship because they see the writing on the WALL and believe me: scientific skeptics don't want them anymore than you do.
Not exact matches
After reporters
pointed it out, YouTube removed the video for violating its policy against harassment, which was updated last year to include «
hoax videos that target the victims»
of breaking news tragedies.
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?
The confusion is a feature
of developments that
point to the fact that the «One constituency — $ 1million» promise by the NPP government
of President Akufo - Addo is a total
hoax.
Trump has questioned the science underlying climate change — at one
point suggesting that it was a Chinese
hoax — and pledged to pull the United States out
of the Paris climate agreement.
I'm not a fan
of the socialist realism school
of writing, which says fiction should make a
point: big business destroys the planet; climate change is a
hoax; Democrats assault children; Republicans kill women.
The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog
points out that Assassin
of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more
of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner
of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section
of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate
hoax.
Scientists too often spend time amongst themselves as to the
point that they lose the possibility
of positive criticism and objective research (see BBC and «Memory
of Water» —
hoax).
And I've also
pointed out that since I find you all to be wrong about 99 %
of everything else we've discussed, I would be quite remiss, if not insane, to take your word for global warming as a
hoax, or even as false.
The statistics however
point out that way too many
of the
hoaxes and misinformation are being perpetrated by Australian commenters.
The documentary takes pains to
point out that the mummy is not a crafted
hoax, but the remains
of a living creature.
Unsurprisingly, a slew
of prominent right - leaning websites are
pointing to it as proof that global warming is a
hoax.
So far, here in the United States, public debate over climate change has been little more than an endless series
of arcane scientific and political talking
points tossed back and forth on the Internet between those who believe AGW will destroy the planet and those who believe the whole thing is a massive
hoax.
-- Swanson's,
of Tsonis and Swanson, proposed alteration to make a
point about his paper to warn off true believers
of the
hoax
Global warming is the greatest
hoax of the modern era and is seriously undermined by the fact that the Earth has been in one
of its natural cooling cycles for the last seventeen years at this
point.
This is as bad as some skeptics who lump all those alarmed about AGW into the «kool aid» room, along with accusations
of hoax, plans for world domination, and other libertarian talking
points.
The
point of this story — remember, now, these are recommendations to the government from some egghead researchers at Harvard, and it's all based on a faulty premise and a
hoax, and that is that man - made greenhouse gases are causing climate change, global warming or whatever.