Philip K. Dick

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

American Writer

Nazanin Boniadi

I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

British Actress

Neal Boortz

The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

American Journalist

Vladimir Nabokov

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

American Novelist

Roger Scruton

Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.

English Philosopher

William Vickrey

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

Canadian Educator

John le Carre

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

English Writer

Brian Greene

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

American Physicist

Abraham Kuyper

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Dutch Theologian

Spurious often suggests intentional deception or a hidden motive behind something presented as legitimate.

Falseness Implication

Things called spurious resemble the real ones, but lack their authenticity, and this distinction can be important.

Disguising Authenticity

Question claims or arguments labeled as spurious for their evidence and logic.

Critical Analysis

In academic contexts, referring to an argument as spurious indicates strong disapproval of its lack of sound basis.

Avoid in Formal Writing

In biology, spurious characteristics might seem useful at first glance, but are not functional or natural.

Counterintuitive Nature

In technical fields like biology, precise details define what makes a feature or specimen spurious.

Technical Specificity

In statistics, spurious relationships can mislead researchers to assume causation without considering outside factors.

Incorrect Associations

Remain skeptical of correlations described as spurious until all variables are analyzed.

Analytical Skepticism

 likely to be randomly false positives randomly false negatives so they will cluster together the big trials are closer to the true answer then as you go further down at the bottom what you can see is over on this side spurious false negatives and over on this side the spurious false positives if there is publication bias if small negative

Battling bad science -...

 when the storms come? Anyone who tries to tell you that they know the future is just trying to own it, a spurious kind of manifest destiny. The harder, deeper truth is