But scientific reality has caught up with them.
"The long-term, real world, scientific reality is that a ban wouldn't save a single hive.
But this new quota completely ignores the scientific reality of already-decimated tuna populations.
Peabody's official position on climate science is divorced from scientific reality.
"Choosing the sex of your baby: new scientific reality," declared another in the same publication.
Cabinets of curiosities were a strange bridge between atavistic myth and dawning scientific reality.
She feels the Autism Team are "completely divorced from scientific reality".
Apparently for Heffernan, recognizing and explaining scientific reality makes someone an atheist or a devotee of the eco-apocalypse.
The fair maiden of myth appears to have a basis in scientific reality, according to new research.
I was involved in GCC for a while, unsuccessfully trying to get them to recognize scientific reality.
Anyone who fantasizes about the possibility of interstellar travel in the near future will be set straight by the daunting scientific reality, as described by one teacher.
