Sentences with phrase «made dubious assumptions»

The senator recently criticized the agency for releasing a series of white papers on methane emissions which, he argued, made dubious assumptions about the industry and the government's ability to make it more efficient.

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In the field that most interests me, anthropology, where I have a fair amount of training and experience, I see dubious claims being made all the time, based on some combination of wishful thinking, unsubstantiated assumptions and confirmation bias, so I'm used to picking through such claims to separate the wheat from the chaff.

(pauses)(M1): Our models have been classified as «complex» (M2): Make that «very» (M1 & M2): That are built upon assumptions by default are arbitrary; So we get a lot of flack about our «dubious» hypotheses, (thinks) That others take to then promote their cataclysmic prophesies.

You are making all kinds of theoretical assumptions about collective action that are empirically dubious and behaviorally outdated.