Sentence examples for dubious theory from inspiring English sources

Schopenhauer proceeded to expound the dubious theory that nature promoted homosexuality in older men as a way of discouraging them from continuing to procreate.

Some people say this change portends the end of whites as the majority race by the middle of the next century -- a dubious theory as best.

The subcommittee even briefly considered the dubious theory that faster rhythms encourage more drug-taking, echoing the Criminal Justice Act's infamous reference to "repetitive beats".

The tax cut has also forced him to introduce the dubious theory that only two-thirds of the national debt is "available" to be retired and the rest can be ignored for now.

In 1908, Louis Brandeis's brief on behalf of the state of Oregon had helped persuade the Supreme Court to abandon the constitutionally dubious theory of "liberty of contract," and uphold a law limiting the number of hours that women could work.

To figure out why people bought into this dubious theory, Shapiro uses a technique that could, in the hands of someone less committed to treating all sides fairly, be an instrument of vicious satire: he turns the skeptics' arguments against them.

He has propounded dubious theories about how Africans and African-Americans are "right-brain people".

Historians grasp at dubious theories because, in Judeo-Christian society, to compete nude in public seems odd, if not scandalous.

It smacks of bit of the lofty and sometimes dubious theories found throughout the stereo business, but whatever – the things sound great at a bargain price.

"Both bills," he added, "are based on legally dubious theories, and if they become law we will challenge them in court".

Mixing respected scholarship with dubious theories, the author, Shlomo Sand, a professor at Tel Aviv University, frames the narrative as a startling exposure of suppressed historical facts.