Sentences with phrase «use as a red herring»

it's always the same deal with religious folk: show some marketable humble or charitable stuff to pull the sheep in and rake in some dollars to pay for the lavish robes, and provide something to use as a red herring to keep people from focusing in on the nasty bits and priest crimes.

When confronted with your blatant misrepresentations, you resorted to ad hominem used as red herrings.

Not exact matches

Using oranges and apples analogies as red herrings only adds to the belief that the NRA and the gun worshipers truly are not thinking this seriously nor have sensible, realistic, reasonable, practical and feasible solutions to gun violence but rather fallacies and incorrect assumptions.

Red herring: «Christians used to be just as bas 1,000 years ago».

BMI is only one indicator, and not an entirely sound one, of health in children; and I think that using it as a measurement of good nutrition work in schools is a red herring.

Just using the expenses scandal, as Labour politicians and the prime minister are trying to do, to excuse their very bad performance, I think, is a red herring.

An over-illustrative use of flashbacks is another misstep as is a contrived red herring involving Sam's husband's killer.

Yet Anderson uses Rebecca as a red herring, as Phantom Thread's surprises often center on its deviations from such a template.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

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«So long as districts continue to ignore the crushing reality of the looming financial crisis at the hands of unfunded retiree liabilities, and so long as the Legislature fails to fundamentally overhaul the authorizing structure in California, we anticipate that powerful special interests will continue to use charter public schools as a red herring to avoid the hard decisions that lie ahead,» continued Marquez.

Your father uses similar red herring style arguments as well.

It is another red - herring being used by interest groups to further another absolutely useless debate which we all know as «is climate change real» and «are humans causing this?».

And okay I was using «red herrings» as slang, but I know your intent regarding the OCSI test and that intent seems perfectly fine afaics.

The argument to «learn what else drives climate» is a complete red herring, as if scientists are not already figuring out everything they can (which in turn is then being repeatedly re shaped to use to try to refute Climate Change by «skeptic» websites, as is everything), and is just used as another false refutation of, or confusion on, the basic assessment and risk range that the at this point fairly well known and well substantiated general concept of Climate Change represents.

However, the impact was minimal, except as a red herring used to attack climate science.

What I find particularly insidious in the largely manufactured debates over hockey sticks, Climategate, and similar red herrings, is the attempt to portray the real scientific issues as merely matters of opinion, as though choosing to believe Wegman vs. Mann, or Hansen vs. Lindzen, has no more objective validity than one's choice of favorite sports teams (I was going to use political parties, but that's another argument).

It's too easy to use «cycles» as a red herring distraction to divert attention to a more real and serious problem.

If the author is already peddling denialism based on limited facts used out of context, and this new paper is published likely just to be used as the latest red herring distraction in the global warming argument by examining «Svalbard and Greenland temperature records» in a too limited time span without relevant context, which, just in case some may not have noticed does not represent the region known as planet Earth, uses too short a time span in relation to mechanism outside of the examined region because it is in fact a regional analysis; one is left with a reasonable conclusion that the paper is designed to be precisely what I suspect it is designed for, to be a red herring distraction in the argument between science and science denialism regarding global warming.

Excuse me but will you kindly stop using my post as a red herring.

Some men falsely use PA as a red - herring.