This seems plausible, but in 2010 two mathematical biologists, Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita, and I demonstrated that the mathematical foundations of the kin selection theory are unsound, and that examples from nature thought to support kin selection theory are better explained as products of multilevel selection.
Mr. Jones's theory is "scientifically unsound," Simone Foxman said in Quartz.
Mr. Buchan is not shy about zeroing in on the weaknesses in Smith's theory, noting "the unsound commercial anthropology" and "the disdain for mere fact".
Although unsound information cascades are in theory fragile and fall apart quickly when exposed, 316 this may not occur in biomedical belief systems, where contradicted claims may persist.
First, Hume's conceivability to possibility argument is unsound.
The dilemma, then, is that the best model for developing the theory makes predictions based on the theory unsound, yet the whole point of the theory is predictive.
So even though many compatibilists are committed to thinking that the Consequence Argument is unsound, it nevertheless set the agenda for many contemporary compatibilist theories of free will and moral responsibility.
Partly in response to what he saw as unsound and unscientific speculations by William Buckland and other practitioners of flood geology, Charles Lyell advocated the geological theory of uniformitarianism in his influential work Principles of Geology.
As such, Cherniak proposes that the use of heuristics which may be of benefit to an agent in certain circumstances – even potentially unsound ones – should be regarded as falling under a generalized account of rationality informed by computational complexity theory.
But, of course, in order to show that intelligent design is not good science, and therefore that it's unsound pedagogy to be touting it as an alternative to Darwinian evolution, it helps to remind people how broadly supported the theory of evolution is by recent developments across the sciences — in genetics, for example, as well as in paleontology.
