spurious claim

Larger organisations have the ability to protect themselves against spurious claims.

This effect has led to many spurious claims in the field of astronomy.

He called the commission's argument a "a very spurious claim."

This means that the backlog itself now attracts spurious claims.

Vrolicq makes the obviously spurious claim of having discovered the island in 1612.

Officials also fear an increase in spurious claims.

Employment tribunals are there to weed out the spurious claims.

When challenged, he would choose the offensive, even traveling to Washington to argue for his spurious claims.

Such strict liability makes them an easy target for spurious claims, the builders contend.

The Taliban, however, made spurious claims of massive casualties and destroyed helicopters.

It bestows the enemy position with a spurious claim to some sort of equivalence.

The second is whether scientific journals' procedures for detecting spurious claims can and should be improved.

No supplement manufacturer charged has yet to present evidence supporting often outlandish, spurious claims.

In my view, the reason for caring about the elm has nothing to do with spurious claims for its past.

I worry about a drift towards green tariffs justified on the basis of such spurious claims.

"Or maybe it's that spurious claim of the Theloi?"

At the risk of being attacked for our audacity, we will undertake to declare this a spurious claim.

They know not to make spurious claims and should be always spending tax payers money with care and emphasis on best value.

I am not a Google fan at all, but I really hope they beat these spurious claims.

However, that is a spurious claim.

"Unfortunately they are given exaggerated significance and made the basis for spurious claims of priority and superiority."

Too many lawyers in our litigious society seem willing to press spurious claims on behalf of any client who can met their skyrocketing fees.

The conflicting rumors about the fate of the family allowed impostors to make spurious claims that they were a surviving Romanov.

He is mainly notable for spurious claims to have drawn against Paul Morphy, making himself both notorious and unpopular.

The Guardian criticized the marketing effectiveness as "deeply flawed" and associated it with "websites that make even more spurious claims about 2012".