Sentence examples for scientifically untenable from inspiring English sources

Some conservatives do adhere to the creationist theory of human origins, which Mr. Krugman correctly dismisses as scientifically untenable.

Glaetzer-Dixon Family Vineyards Uberblanc Riesling, Tasmania, Australia 2014 (£19.95, Swig) Mineral is a controversial tasting term, suggesting a scientifically untenable transfer of flavour from rock to wine.

Americans' grandiose (to use Newt Gingrich's malapropism) egalitarianism also helps explain why the eight or nine original Republican presidential candidates suffered little for espousing, or at least not clearly opposing, scientifically untenable positions.

(According to a 2009 paper presented to the Geological Society of America, grape vines do absorb inorganic nutrients from the land, but the notion of granite or schist seasoning wine in any detectable way is "scientifically untenable").

What is scientifically untenable - and indeed scientifically meaningless - is to claim that average differences in intelligence, as measured by IQ scores between different population groups, are caused by genetic differences between those groups - the core thesis of pseudoscientific racism.

By the 17th century, however with the displacement of the Earth from the centre of the universe in the new astronomy of Copernicus (1473 1543), Galileo (1564 1642), and Johannes Kepler (1571 1630) and with the rise of the new mechanistic physics of Descartes (1596 1650) and Newton (1643 1727)—astrology lost its intellectual viability and became increasingly recognized as scientifically untenable.

It's scientifically indefensible".

Scientifically indefensible, no doubt.

So it was thought that hundreds of human eggs would have to be used, which was both scientifically and practically untenable, especially for widespread laboratory use of any cell products.

Where that is obtained, the peer review is more likely to rebut any scientifically untoward or untenable hypothesis and arrive at a successful review.

Apart from showing substantial differences between them on pivotal issues, the guidelines contain various elements that appear scientifically incorrect and/or legally untenable.