He and his workers fit the crazily scattered evidence at their disposal into elaborate theories.

The authors offer both some simple correlations and some more elaborate theories.

Some scientists had even built a whole elaborate theory of "interstellar crystallography" on this assumption.

He said reporters are too willing to construct an "elaborate psychological theory" from a few scattered examples.

Before they can construct their elaborate theories, though, these scientists have to dig hard for answers.

Few have heard the elaborate theories about Druid temples.

"It is an elaborate theory but it's not the truth," Brawn says.

We have even constructed elaborate theories to make us feel better about the lives older people lead.

Had my slowness to understand what she was driving at caused her to abandon an attempt to explain a more elaborate theory?

De Homine consisted for the most part of an elaborate theory of vision.