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There are no footnotes to lend his argument a patina of pseudo-scholarly authority.

Eric Alterman: Think Again: How to Manipulate Form and Content for Fun and Profit (and Conservative Ideology) or 'Enough about You' Eric Alterman 2011

There are no footnotes to lend his argument a patina of pseudo-scholarly authority.

Eric Alterman: Think Again: How to Manipulate Form and Content for Fun and Profit (and Conservative Ideology) or 'Enough about You' Eric Alterman 2011

There are no footnotes to lend his argument a patina of pseudo-scholarly authority.

Eric Alterman: Think Again: How to Manipulate Form and Content for Fun and Profit (and Conservative Ideology) or 'Enough about You' Eric Alterman 2011

There are no footnotes to lend his argument a patina of pseudo-scholarly authority.

Eric Alterman: Think Again: How to Manipulate Form and Content for Fun and Profit (and Conservative Ideology) or 'Enough about You' Eric Alterman 2011

Lose an election and work for them in a lobbying firm or, if you need a more prestigious title, a belief tank that they fund to publish pseudo-scholarly pieces designed to provide excuses for whatever policy they consider best for them.

Paul Abrams: What Joe Barton's Words Show Us About the Republican Party 2010

But the book he produces, The American Nations, is worthless, an interminable pseudo-scholarly unfolding of his theories on the origin of New World societies, which he contends sprang from a voyage of Mediterranean ür-colonizers, the Atalantes.

An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

Miller's portion of the book reveals him to be the kind of genial, enthusiastic amateur who has always poked about in the history of SF, turning up nuggets in a pseudo-scholarly way.

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

And they were right, I guess, in that the paper didn't do what they wanted it to: be a boring and amateur pseudo-scholarly response to some canned question.

Menachem Kaiser: How DFW Got Me a C+ 2009

A look at any best-seller list reveals a thriving subcategory of readable scholarly and pseudo-scholarly books about the "real" Jesus: he was, they claim, a sage, a mystic, a rabbi, a boyfriend.

A Portrait of Faith 2007

The present bit of pseudo-scholarly marketing will fare no better as anti-theology than the book has.

Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007