Sentences with phrase «discards as irrelevant»

Many advocates have more the character of political or religious extremists than scientists, as anything that doesn't fit a preconceived worldview is discarded as irrelevant, and some go out of their way to choose diets opposite to the nutrition consensus as a means of «giving the finger to the man».

But, as Nassim Taleb and Thomas Kuhn have both observed, coming at the problem from two totally different starting points, it is the outliers that may be telling us exactly what we need to know, yet these were systematically discarded as irrelevant in order to «hide the decline».