The more credulous members of the media too often bought that act.
|
|
That is, as a guy from TV who tweeted stupid memes sometimes and retained a certain down-market patina among more credulous types while serving as a punch line for others.
|
|
Sherif Mansour, the director of the committee's Middle East and North Africa program, told me he took a dim view of the news media's more credulous accounts of Crown Prince Mohammed.
|
|
I don't want to drag you into the partisan muck here, but this seems to suggest that there are greater market incentives for pro-Trump fake news because Trump supporters, for whatever reason, are more credulous and prone to believe and share them.
|
|
Our evaluation of polls and surveys should meet that same standard, and the initial approach ought to be skeptical: A poll's existence alone does not make it news, and journalists shouldn't be any more credulous about numbers than they are about words.
|
|
He was more credulous than a number of his fellow clerics about another episode, when six children in Medjugorje, a tiny village in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, reported in 1981 that the Virgin Mary had delivered tidings to the public and, eventually, secret messages to them.
|
|
In dialog with host Desiree Schell, the YAS representatives discussed issues that face young members of the skeptical movement, including their role in the larger skeptical community and relating to peers who might be more credulous.
|
|
Castelli, 38; Gaddis, 30-31. In the words of Tacitus, Christians showed "hatred of the human race" (odium generis humani).Tacitus, Annales 15.44.6, cited in Frend, "Genesis and Legacy", 504; Dodds, 110. Among the more credulous, Christians were thought to use black magic in pursuit of revolutionary aims,Frend, "Genesis and Legacy", 504, citing Suetonius, Nero 16.2.
|
|
The judge was clearly more sceptical than the jury of the evidence presented. When an accusation of flying was made, the judge remarked there was no law against doing so. Some historians such as Keith Thomas have suggested, taking this case is an example, that there was generally a difference in attitudes towards supposed witchcraft between educated and less educated people, the latter being more credulous. However, the Wenham case is arguably more complicated than this distinction might imply, as Henry Chauncy, for example, was well educated.
|
|
He described the constant presence of Methodist clergymen near Elizabeth Parsons and implied that the church would recompense her father for his troubles. Samuel Johnson was committed to his Christian faith and shared the views of author Joseph Glanvill, who, in his 1681 work Saducismus Triumphatus, wrote of his concern over the advances made against religion and a belief in witchcraft, by atheism and scepticism. For Johnson the idea that an afterlife might not exist was an appalling thought, but although he thought that spirits could protect and counsel those still living, he kept himself distant from the more credulous Methodists, and recognised that his religion required proof of an afterlife.
|
|
It is not uncommon for acronyms to be cited in a kind of false etymology, called a folk etymology, for a word. Such etymologies persist in popular culture but have no factual basis in historical linguistics, and are examples of language- related urban legends. For example, "cop" is commonly cited as being derived, it is presumed, from "constable on patrol", and "posh" from "port outward, starboard home".; published in the US as With some of these specious expansions, the "belief" that the etymology is acronymic has clearly been tongue-in-cheek among many citers, as with "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden" for "golf", although many other (more credulous) people have uncritically taken it for fact.
|
|
Salford Hundred, one of the four traditional divisions of Lancashire, was centered on Manchester. Bayley, Hay and Thomas Bancroft, vicar of Bolton, formed a discriminating group gathering local intelligence and showing scepticism to claims of their spies and informants, whom they recruited carefully. Their attitude differed from other, more credulous magistrates.Alan Booth, The United Englishmen and Radical Politics in the Industrial North-West of England, 1795–1803, International Review of Social History Vol. 31, No. 3 (1986), pp. 271–297, at p. 272. Published by: Cambridge University Press In 1812, at the time of the disorder at the Manchester Cotton Exchange and the reading of the Riot Act by two magistrates (Silvester and Wright), Hay found an ally in Charles Ethelston.
|
|
Recent scholarship has also shown an increased reluctance to take historical documents at face value when their author had strong reasons to deviate from the truth. For instance, Constanze Mozart had strong motivation to paint a tragic picture of her husband's final decline and demise, since she was seeking both a pension from the Emperor and income from memorial benefit concerts. Cliff Eisen, inserting footnotes in Hermann Abert's book, expresses sharp skepticism about Constanze's account of the end of Mozart's life, contradicting the more credulous view of Abert; for details see Death of Mozart. The content of Mozart's letters also receives a very different interpretation under the view that they often reflect a desire to placate, and reduce the alarm of, his stern father Leopold; this view is put forth, for instance, by Schroeder (1999).
|
|
Ever a sceptic, in his discussions with his biographer James Boswell, he said: Johnson's role in revealing the nature of the hoax was not enough to keep the satirist Charles Churchill from mocking his apparent credulity in his 1762 work The Ghost. He resented Johnson's lack of enthusiasm for his writing and with the character of 'Pomposo', written as one of the more credulous of the ghost's investigators, used the satire to highlight a "superstitious streak" in his subject. Johnson paid this scant attention, but was said to have been more upset when Churchill again mocked him for his delay in releasing Shakespeare. Publishers were at first wary of attacking those involved in the supposed haunting, but Churchill's satire was one of a number of publications which, following the exposure of Parsons' deception, heaped scorn on the affair.
|
|