Are goverments really relying on such spurious evidence.

Changing definitions over time have given rise to spurious evidence of changing prevalence of disorders.

(Just a year later Cromwell was accused of treason and executed on spurious evidence.)

Auld and Grootendorst (2004) show, however, that the empirical version of the rational addiction model tends to produce spurious evidence of addictiveness when aggregate data are used.

Oliver Stone, the film maker, was wrong to use trick photography and spurious evidence to charge that the murder of John F. Kennedy was a coup by the nation's highest officials.

The Fed's initial moves to raise short-term interest rates in February, Mr. Tobin insists, were at best premature and, arguably, based on spurious evidence of inflation in the making.

Van Hulst presented this spurious evidence at the German government compound once or twice a week, wearing the long coat and wide-brimmed hat typically worn by Gestapo agents or Dutch collaborators.