Sentences with phrase «ridiculous assertion»

Oddly, what looks like intelligence to some people looks like an entirely ridiculous assertion of opinion without any evidence, reason, or evident perspective to back it up.

But then, newspapers have often been more than happy to print ridiculous assertions by their favorite politicians, so that's not really anything new.

The book lost me when it made ridiculous assertions like the current administration was more interested in talking to our enemies then punishing them.

Pearce and others in the media and blogs make ridiculous assertions about (1), but the same pundits never discuss (2).

This is actually one of the most ridiculous assertions when it comes to Skyward Sword.

One of the book's more ridiculous assertions is that the so - called Sangreal documents, held by the Priory of Sion, include «the legendary «Q» Document,» which «even the Vatican admits... exists.»

His opposition stemmed partly from the valid argument that they impose real hardship on Iranians, but also from the very dubious claim that they make war more likely, and from the legally ridiculous assertion that western use of financial tools to block oil sales «is a financial blockade, and blockades are acts of war.»

He / she / they are doing this by posting ridiculous assertions (including untrue paraphrases that grossly distort the words of others) and by changing the subject whenever the daft nature of the assertions is pointed out.

Despite delusions of grandeur [«Steven Mosher is to Climategate what Woodward and Bernstein were to Watergate»] and ridiculous assertions [«He was just the right person, with just the right influence, and just the right expertise to be at the heart of the promulgation of the files»] Mr. Mosher was nothing more than a temporary go - between that he used to inflate his importance in the matter.

Ironically, the only books I am aware of that makes ridiculous assertions about the origin of life popping into existence are the Torah and it's derivatives, the Bible and Qu» ran.

The worst kinds of false news aren't even the most obvious kinds — the clear fakes or ridiculous assertions — the Microsoft researcher and former fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center says:

Probably the best examples are the ridiculous assertions by various companies, including General Electric, that «the quality of our earnings is supported by our cash flow», and that «Cash is cash.

He's just refuting the ridiculous assertions by some creationists to refute clear evidence of evolutionary theory, or suggest that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

The ridiculous assertion that because Christians follow their religion they are somehow outside of basic human rights is absolutely criminal... We are doomed if what you three have posted becomes the common belief.

The type of atheists, like most on this post, that continue with the ridiculous assertion that there can be nothing greater than us that exists above or outside of our little physical realm, are simply either intellectually stunted individuals, or more likely, bitter people who have gotten their panties in a bunch because some religious text contains some apparent condemnation of their lifestyle.

Are you really that mad that I just refuted your ridiculous assertion that you made about Jesus never talking about marriage.

Fan A says, I never said that, I just corrected a ridiculous assertion.

... much like your ridiculous assertions on a return man being as good a CB as Lattimore based on his AV, which was the inflated by his return stats.

«That's a ridiculous assertion.

It should have been taking decisive action but engaged instead in systematic understatement of the danger: it has made ridiculous assertions that the U.S. should not do anything that China does not agree to do and has stubbornly insisted that no action should be taken to improve climate change «if it hurts the economy.»

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten bashed the report, huffing that it's full of «ridiculous assertions» says,

She promptly bashed the report, insisting that it's full of «ridiculous assertions» and countered with half - truths and threw in a little class warfare as red meat for her members:

Pete Domenici has not exactly been helpful, with his push for opening ANWR and his ridiculous assertions that nuclear power will save us all — he claims that it is a «zero emissions» technology, apparently ignoring the use of diesel fuel in mining and transporting uranium ore and the amount of CO2 released by cement production.

Such grants have brought us «studies» connecting «dangerous manmade global warming» to dwindling frog populations, shrinking Italian pasta supplies, clownfish getting lost, cockroaches migrating, and scores of other remote to ridiculous assertions.

All I can say is thank goodness that people such as yourselves, who maintain this site and take the time and make the effort to refute the ridiculous assertions of the manmade climate change (or global warming, or whatever it has morphed into recently) hysterics, are with us and bringing some semblance of sanity into an insane world.

We don't get any closer to science by denying the significant possibility that we are causing significantly adverse changes in climate than we do by the ridiculous assertion that we understand the chaotic complexity of climate well enough to say with certainty how many parts per millions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to how many degrees of global warming.

[DC: Wahl and Ammann did (despite McIntyre's ridiculous assertion that their work validates his).

Not that we should spend too much time making a serious attempt at rebutting the CEI's ridiculous assertions.

That makes the advance blurbs for this distasteful and misleading piece of propaganda all the more shocking, especially Richard Tol's ridiculous assertion that LaFramboise is a «good journalist» who «shines a hard light on the rotten heart of the IPCC».

Everyone should now pester all Scientists with a simple question: «Do you agree with Trenberth's ridiculous assertion that Climate Science is settled and the Scientific Method no longer applies?