Sentence examples for dubious speculation from inspiring English sources

If you grew up in the 1970s, you may have a dim memory of "Chariots of the Gods," an international best seller by Erich von Däniken full of dubious speculation about extraterrestrial influences on ancient earthling civilizations.

Beside Milford's patient, scrupulous account, Daniel Mark Epstein's "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" seems a hasty sketch, short on narrative detail, long on overheated enthusiasm, dubious speculation and slapdash style.

offered the dubious speculation that hundreds of thousands of soldiers might simply leave their posts if the policy is repealed, an outcome that Gates dismissed as unfounded.

St. Stephen's last words were probably something more along the lines of "Ow! Stop messing about!" (This is all assuming that Jesus and St. Stephen ever existed at all, a dubious speculation at best).

In "Imperial Delhi," Andreas Volwahsen, a German scholar of Indian architecture, entertains some dubious speculations.

As it is, he has had to rely on gossip, anecdote, dubious official reports, speculation and extrapolation.

Google has once again been called out for algorithmically encouraging the spread of dubious, politically charged speculation and misinformation around a topical news event.

Maddow swirled together an array of facts, possible facts, dubious assertions and pure speculation to arrive at conclusions that were based on little more than her zeal to portray Trump as a tool of the Kremlin.

To critics, such as Karl Popper in his popular post-war The Open Society and its Enemies (1945), Hegel had not only advocated a disastrous political conception of the state and the relation of its citizens to it, a conception prefiguring twentieth-century totalitarianism, but he had also tried to underpin such advocacy with dubious theo-logico-metaphysical speculations.

Speculation that he may have tapped into legally dubious information wasn't just whispered in private but splashed across the pages of The Wall Street Journal in a 2006 profile that raised questions about whether his firm traded improperly.

This dubious place of worship, established in the 1820s largely as a burial speculation, contained a modest cellar in which the deceased were laid to rest in their thousands (ie. corpses were regularly surreptitiously cleared away).