Sentences with phrase «something of a red herring»

It is something of a red herring.

We're still to be convinced by this Blackburn & Steve Kean relationship, while we're deeply concerned with the unrealistic targets the club's owners has set for the team, but if they can conjure wins from out of nowhere, as they did during the week at West Brom, then they will remain something of a red herring in betting terms.

IL - 17, however, turned out to be something of a red herring.

But this was something of a red herring.

This paper, for example — it will clear up the reasoning so you can understand why the word «validation» is something of a red herring problem:

But is the focus on behaviour and discipline something of a red herring?

Furthermore, given that «global warming» doesn't mean that the whole world is simply going to get warmer (rather, climate changes will be complex), pointing out that civilizations in the past may not have been affected by warming is something of a red herring.

Not exact matches

The evolution question was poorly written, was I was trying to say was your question of WHY dna is dna and not something else is again, irrelevant to the conversation and a red herring.

Many, if their worldview doesn't hold up under scrutiny and they feel the lack of support for something that is sacred to them, simply resort to repet.itious circular statements, name calling, diversion, red - herrings and such in order to justify it to themselves.

So when critics or advocates of the «charter movement» emerge, the broad brush betrays either a lack of understanding or deliberate red herring - ism, and in either case it stagnates us in a meaningless debate about something that does not exist.

However, I'm fairly certain that the AGWSF is something relevant to viewing the Earth as an open system, which is not the point of this thread and hence is, in the parlance of logical discourse, a «red herring».

Thank you Rasmus for clearing the air of rotten cherries and highlighting the latest red herring «something else» argument.