Sentence examples for profound misconception from inspiring English sources

This magical thinking betrays a profound misconception about the nature and purpose of such employers.

" We in the United States have long labored under a profound misconception of what schnapps is, perhaps largely because of unfortunate associations with frat houses, flaming shots at happy hours and that ungodly, mentholated monstrosity — consumed in Germany, its country of origin, primarily as a digestif — known as Jägermeister.

But perhaps the most insidious factor in calls for acceptance of the idea of genetically engineering humans is the profound misconception of the nature of living organisms that underlies it.

Although perinatal mortality rates do increase with increasing gestation in fetuses-at-risk models, it is a profound misconception to state that such a pattern automatically implies the need for indiscriminate increases in preterm induction or preterm cesarean delivery.

"The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture," Addario told me.

In the absence of instruction, profound misconceptions develop about the evolutionary context of ethics and pollute the science.

Yet both the discipline of directional radiometry and the radiative transfer theory (RTT) have traditionally been based on phenomenological concepts many of which turn out to be profound misconceptions.

In a review of empirical research studies on K-12 teachers regarding evolution, Sickel and Friedrichsen ([2013]) show that there are profound misconceptions about evolution that color how teachers present the topic and how much time they devote to evolution.

The combination of these sentences and many other statements by Ham in the debate reflect profound misconceptions of the nature of science and an acute lack of trust in science and scientists particularly with respect to biological evolution.

Still, it speaks to something much more profound than simple cultural misconceptions -- it speaks to a general distrust developed over a century of military adventurism and imperialistic tendencies on our part.

The study findings show that young people have strongly embedded misconceptions and profound fears which serve as obstacles to initiation and continuation of contraceptive use.