The phrase "astounding claims" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to statements or assertions that are surprising or hard to believe.
Example: "The scientist made astounding claims about the potential of the new technology to revolutionize energy production."
Alternatives: "remarkable assertions" or "incredible statements".
And science journalists, competing for space with political and sports news, welcome astounding claims without always kicking the tires as hard as necessary.
One of the more astounding claims in Pinker's "The Blank Slate" is that parents do not, in fact, exercise much influence on their children at all, apart from the critical contribution of the parental DNA.
The suit makes a number of astounding claims.
It is usually advisable to consider simple explanations of unexpected results prior to making "astounding" claims.
"But the fact that China would make such a brash and astounding claim to the entire South China Sea is disconcerting.
We weren't treated to any evidence to back up this astounding claim, but don't worry – the writer was a neuroscientist.
But beneath that astounding claim was a shrewd understanding, the one that he had made in his famous appeal, broadcast on the BBC on June 18 , 1940 "This war is not limited to the unhappy territory of our country.
One of the defence lawyers backs him up, making the astounding claim that he would burn his own daughter alive if she "disgraced herself" by going out at night.
"Reorganisations are often presented as an exercise in cutting bureaucracy, and this one is no exception, with the astounding claim being made that NHS management costs will be reduced by 45%," he writes.
"The interest in Wits & Wagers has been astounding," claimed Satish Pillilamarri, North Star Games co-founder.
Six months after oil tycoon Marvin Davis died last fall, Davis' eldest daughter, Patricia Davis Raynes, met, she says, with a family financial adviser who made an astounding claim: The Davis family fortune, estimated by FORBES at $5.8 billion in 2004, had dwindled to almost nothing.
