Doctors today commonly assert that they practice "scientific medicine," and patients think that the medical treatments they receive are "scientifically proven".
That summer, nothing short of a bonfire could have delivered me from the utter dilettantism into which I slipped: we commonly assert that reading is a wholesome activity, but not reading Wodehouse.
Trappers in Alberta, Canada commonly assert otters are major predators of beavers.
It is commonly asserted that they improve communication, listening, and clinical diagnosis skills of students by putting them in a setting where human interaction takes precedence over technology [ 4].
Most native Southern Min speakers in Taiwan are unfamiliar with POJ or any other writing system for the language, commonly asserting that "Taiwanese has no writing", or, if they are made aware of POJ, considering romanization as the "low" form of writing, in contrast with the "high" form (Chinese characters).
However, given that it is now commonly asserted that textbooks are largely out of date by the time they are printed [ 3], does this mean that archived material is of limited use?
It is commonly asserted that someone's compassion might lead them to act wrongly, to tell a lie they should not have told, for example, in their desire to prevent someone else's hurt feelings.
It is commonly asserted that the feast was the pagan festival of the dead.
It's commonly asserted that we walk around with more computing power in our pockets today than it took to get us to the Moon.
In atomic terms, the total energy is the sum of all the kinetic and potential energies of the atoms, and the entropy, it is commonly asserted, is a measure of the disorderly state of the constituent atoms.
