"inducing doubt" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means causing or creating doubt in someone or something. Example: The new evidence presented during the trial was inducing doubt in the minds of the jurors, making them question the defendant's guilt.
In the run-up to the big night, the underdog's team has been busy bad-mouthing the favourite, trying to induce doubt in the minds of its supporters.
The heap argument is supposed to induce doubts about the possibility of determining precise limits, especially to quantities.
At times forces may enable the protagonist (e.g. the sudden acquisition of affluence) or block the path (e.g. lack of personal experience and understanding), inducing self-doubt and changes of direction (Fiol, 1989).
The days when one pro gave another bad information or tried to induce self-doubt in an opponent with a sly, "Do you inhale or exhale during your backswing?" have, for good or ill, gone the way of the wound golf ball.
An inability to continue in one's chosen career is an important consideration for health-care providers to acknowledge, for as some of the participants highlighted, vocalization of negative expectations by health care staff had the potential to induce self-doubt and confusion regarding future possibilities.
Robert N. Proctor, who coined the term "agnotology" to describe the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, wrote in American Scientist that Merchants of Doubt is a detailed and artfully written book.
His humorously helpful parentheticals, doubt-inducing scare quotes, casual "like"s dropped carefully amidst otherwise competent sentences, and gratuitous exclamation points litter the online landscape.
Some highway engineers doubt that the induced-travel phenomenon exists, or say that if it does, it is not a big cause of congestion.
We did not check for expression of iNOS in the present study, but as the vasculature was paralyzed by papaverine after baseline measurements, we doubt that NO-induced vasodilatation has contributed to a further enlargement of the filtration area.
While there is no doubt that STZ-induced type 2 diabetes are good models for studying mitochondrial glucotoxicity in β cells, one question often being asked is that whether the STZ type 1 diabetes model is suitable for studying β cell diabetic glucotoxicity as STZ partially destructs pancreas and reduces β cell mass.
