Here's one for you: we hold to outmoded theories even in the face of overwhelming counter-evidence.

The field of anthropology was moving rapidly from theories of race typology, and The Origin of Races was widely castigated by his peers in anthropology as supporting racist ideas with outmoded theory and notions which had long since been repudiated by modern science.

It occurred to her that Hamilton's faulty orientation might have its origin in the injudicious application of that outmoded, unfounded theory.

The social sciences are complex fields, full of disagreement, and as Pink demonstrates through his debunking of outmoded economic theories on human motivation, often do more harm than good.

The main impediment to such policies, Keynes writes, is the lingering influence of outmoded theories:

He just sort of looked right through us poor plennies, saying, in a very beautiful real educated goloss: "The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penological theories.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the institute's patterning treatment is based on an outmoded and oversimplified theory of brain development, its effectiveness is not supported by evidence-based medicine, and its use is unwarranted.

Samuel J. Meisels, an education professor at the University of Michigan, wrote in the journal Young Child in 1987 that Gesell tests "are based on an outmoded theory of child development, lack reliability and validity, and use a concept of developmental age that has never been empirically verified."

They do not need the outmoded liberal theories that have drawn us into an unprecedented world crisis.

Put on fine airs and entertained outmoded theories.