Sentence examples for supposed discoveries from inspiring English sources

A series of articles then went on to report some of Sir John's supposed discoveries, including vast forests, lakes and seas, bison wandering across grassy plains, blue unicorns and a race of winged humans that were dubbed Vespertilio-homo, or man-bat.

Neuro-nonsense occurs when people take on board the supposed discoveries of neuroscience – all these brain images that tell us, for instance, that we've discovered now exactly what love is, it's this little bit in the hippocampus, so we have no need to question what the meaning of these things is.

The philosophic question why Newton's rules are appropriate is best addressed not by asking how they increase the probability of truth, but by asking whether there is some strategy in ongoing research for which these rules will both promote further discoveries and safeguard against dead-end garden paths that ultimately require all the supposed discoveries to be discarded.

"This makes Heidemann's supposed discovery downright believable.

Investors lost billions of dollars in 1997 when Bre-X Minerals, a high-flying gold-exploration company, was found to have falsified assay results from a supposed discovery in Indonesia.

Passing reference is made to the Mormon founder, Joseph Smith, and his supposed discovery of sacred tablets on a hillside in New York state in 1827.

The centerpiece of his supposed discovery is that the vocabularies used in the greatest plays of Molière and two comedies of Corneille bear an uncanny similarity.

The evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse confessed that he slept badly for many nights after absorbing this supposed discovery, which he called "one of the most disturbing in the history of science".

This is not just born of Gattaca, but of headlines that proclaim the supposed discovery of "genes for" obesity, binge-drinking and so on, and of the long-running and often futile nature versus nurture debate.

Because of Levi's great reputation, many Italian news outlets — including, for example, L'Osservatorio sul Pregiudizio Antiebraico Contemporaneo ("Digest of Contemporary Anti-Jewish Prejudicarriedcarticlesrticles on Scarpa and Soave's supposed discovery.

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E over the Pacific in 1937 has bred conspiracy theories involving the supposed discovery of her briefcase, military corruption and wartime malfeasance by the Japanese; but the exhibition's sober judgment is more severe.