The second group I would categorise as fake news, and then there is a third type, which I would describe as more
demagogical. This type might claim Plan S will damage academic freedom, or it will put an end to global science co-operation, or Plan S will lead to poor peer review and more predatory journals.
"You can work for security and have respect for rules without becoming fascist," Democratic lawmaker Ettore Rosato tweeted, branding the project as "vulgar and
demagogical."
Stolen wealth poorly justifies itself in newspapers by preaching
demagogical slogans like 'hard work' and 'keep your city clean'.
At one point he was accused by his academic colleagues of "presumptuous political dilettantism, passion for ideological tutelage,
demagogical practice- and in its wake-intolerance, defamation and uncollegial spirit aimed at the dissolution of present order" (4).
Since June 7, the AKP government has been attempting to bring in line the will of the majority -- which voted against its continued rule -- in line with its own, thus exposing the
demagogical nature of its concept of "national will."
Apparently the point regarding Kashmir's special status in the BJP manifesto was merely rhetorical and
demagogical. In other words the BJP included the demand in its election manifesto to attract votes of Hindu radicals and ultra-Indian nationalists.
"Claims that the United States is also being spied on are purely
demagogical," Pushkov said.
The semantic range of the expression is staggeringly wide but always derogatory, from a menial "My two-year old can do that" to a scatological "It's crap," via the usual
demagogical protest against elitism and her-meticism.
However, despite such tactics of
demagogical distraction, an unusual politicisation is reverberating throughout Spain at present.
For apart from self-serving
demagogical rhetoric, which carries with it its own refutation, and apart from those afflicted with "organic mendacity," (45) practically all the respected and respectable moralizing rhetoric that we can hear on television or read in newspapers and journals of opinion, to say nothing of scientific journals, also seems to flow in that direction.
As David Cole has recently pointed out in this vein, President Obama has given up even trying to employ the presidential bully pulpit, here as in other policy arenas too often letting
demagogical critics define the terms of the debate.
Subsequently, Daouk corroborated that stability would not be properly anchored and enrooted had it not been for a rational dialogue, away from narrow personal and
demagogical considerations.