Sentence examples for on dubious assumptions from inspiring English sources

The notion that fatty foods shorten your life began as a hypothesis based on dubious assumptions and data; when scientists tried to confirm it they failed repeatedly.

Hilbert provided such an axiomatization in (1900b), but it became clear very quickly that the consistency of analysis faced significant difficulties, in particular because the favored way of providing a foundation for analysis in Dedekind's work relied on dubious assumptions akin to to those that lead to the paradoxes of set theory and Russell's Paradox in Frege's foundation of arithmetic.

Republican senator Pat Toomey cried "fake news," releasing a statement that asserted, "The Congressional Budget Office's coverage estimates are based on dubious assumptions".

On the day of the accident, the lure of a great run in deep snow, and the accumulation of dubious assumptions it occasioned, clouded the judgment of a dozen experts.

But he also noted that such estimates depend on many dubious assumptions.

Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist and blue chip of Keynesian stock, recently remarked that the entire fundamental basis of the austerity push has been discredited; stating that at its core "results were based on highly dubious assumptions and procedures – plus a few outright mistakes – and evaporated under closer scrutiny".

Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist and blue chip of Keynesian stock, recently remarked that the entire fundamental basis of the austerity push has been discredited; stating that at its core "results were based on highly dubious assumptions and procedures plus a few outright mistakes and evaporated under closer scrutiny".

Beyond these analytical problems, W&D's analysis of CMMB for FFSH on Lord Howe Island critically depends on the dubious assumption that rat predation substantially depresses FFSH reproductive success and that eradicating rats would eliminate all egg and chick mortality except that caused by death of a parent (i.e., pf = 1.0).

There's a ripe example at Stratford-on-Avon right now, where Thomas Middleton's A Mad World My Masters has been "edited" by Sean Foley and Phil Porter on the dubious assumption that modern audiences are too dumb to understand it.

The film rides on the dubious assumption that camp and infantilism are the same thing.

To the Editor: "How to Rescue Education Reform" (editorial, Oct. 10) is predicated on the dubious assumption that schools at their best alone can eliminate the persistent achievement gap between rich and poor children.