Sentence examples for shown to be erroneous from inspiring English sources

Although this view was later shown to be erroneous, it served a useful purpose in allowing him to abolish the idea, held by many previous atomists from the Greek philosopher Democritus to the 18th-century mathematician and astronomer Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, that atoms of all kinds of matter are alike.

In a prison study, Leary claimed that hallucinogens combined with psychotherapy could reduce re-offending among prisoners, but those conclusions were later shown to be erroneous.

Molar masses calculated from a universal calibration curve and the viscometry detector are shown to be erroneous for the freely draining PHIC and should not be used for persistence length determination.

Both of these reported discoveries were shown to be erroneous because the spectrum line that "corresponded" to element 61 was identical to that of didymium; the lines thought to belong to element 61 turned out to belong to a few impurities (barium, chromium, and platinum).

Initial reports that the Nnd-1 protein coding sequence downstream of Ankyrin repeats contains two amino acid polymorphisms were shown to be erroneous by later studies (http://flybase.org).org

The traditional simplification for one commonly used example of repeated collisions is shown to be frequently erroneous for a wide range of coefficients of restitution.

However, this does not mean that these notions and concepts are institutional in content; the idea of an institution-transcendent requirement is not shown to be any less erroneous, Mackie thinks, if we observe that the idea grew out of, and remains supported by, a widely accepted institution.

In fact the report specifically cautions against drawing any link between ethnicity and sexual assault: "Crude generalisations that have given the impression that rapists are only foreigners – and primarily Muslims – are shown to be inadequate and erroneous".

The qualitative flag and quantitative fuzzy logic QC assessments were shown to be highly correlated and capable of flagging samples that were clearly erroneous.

MM, MDR, LC-AHFS, AHFS, and CP were shown to be superior in their scope and completeness of information, and MM, AHFS, and MDR provided no erroneous answers.

Under the assumption that every quartet topology has probability p to be erroneous, we show in the following that | Q T 5 − Q T ′ 5 | has different probabilities to be 0, 2, 4, and 5 (but no probability to be 1 or 3).