Sentences with phrase «truthiness on»

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But the truthiness of the narrative is irrelevant - only the level of influence the narrative has on voting behavior.

Late - night television satirist Stephen Colbert urges his audience to rely on their gut for what he has dubbed a feeling of «truthiness.»

Although Colbert deserves credit for coining the word, psychologists have long known that people rely on their feelings to draw all sorts of conclusions, and a recent paper clarifies one situation that seems to lead us to strong feelings of truthiness — the presence of additional related (but irrelevant) information.

At the time there was a lot of truthiness to it, but ultimately I concluded that while there was a sliver of common ground on things like dairy is bad and veggies are good, the rest is pure fantasy.

As America's most fearless purveyor of truthiness, Stephen Colbert shines a light on ego - driven punditry, moral hypocrisy and government incompetence Get access to the latest features of Adobe Photoshop CC.

The fact that Charles Darwin's pioneering On the Origin of Species requires patience to comprehend — inadvertently feeding a phony, fundamentalist controversy about its truthiness — seems to have stymied veteran director Jon Amiel (The Singing Detective), who chose to dramatize everything except what's important about Darwin.

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

Truth vs. «Truthiness» Harvard Gazette, 1/8/15 «One way forward, suggested [Professor Howard] Gardner, is to «go beyond the notion that there's a fixed body of truths located in books or in Wikipedia entries anywhere, and focus instead on when somebody makes a statement, on what basis did they make that statement; what was the evidence?»»

If you are public education advocate on social media, you have probably seen some of the aggressive «truthiness» that has been masquerading as grassroots advocacy on this issue.

This is not a «tax free» way to increase spending on education, and the claim that this increases education spending without raising taxes is pure «truthiness».

We know that people love fun, flashy words like truthiness or the latest Bushism, but we are always looking for a word that is both reflective of the events and concerns of the past year and also forward - looking: a word that we think will only become more used and more useful as time goes on.»

Insulation reducing the rate of heat loss — true — coupled with a misleading statement based on Warmist truthiness, plus leaving out critical information.

In Sunday's Washington Post, yet another inane, deceptive, truthiness laden OPED appears on energy issues.

Not satisfied with publishing George Will's Will - ful Deceit, Krauthammer's fact - free forays into energy analysis, Samuelson's truthiness, and Sarah Palin's paltry shallowness, and others, Kathleen Parker has stepped up to the plate for an attack on the American Clean Energy and -LSB-...]

The continued attention feeds on itself, as ignoring the deceptions and the mediocre interviews booked due to the authors» Super (freaky) star status has the problem of giving it credence due to non-truthful truthiness and -LSB-...]

These are, well, to put it as politely as possible, truthiness bordering on lies.

There is no reason to doubt most of Wikipedia's contents, but the fact that truth can so easily become some anonymous user's take on what is best from a truthiness perspectives, dissuades those with serious agendas, especially those beholden to the principles of best evidence.