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Even doctors who actually dissected human cadavers would bafflingly repeat Galen’s mistakes, despite seeing clear evidence to the contrary.
Now, the second thing that everyone already knows is that, contrary to what was believed for most of human history, human beings are not, in fact, the hub of existence.
So, contrary to popular belief, there is not a conflict of interest between empiricism and values.
On the contrary, what they said is, "We're here as a group to pull together with you, so together, we can figure out and fix this problem."
If you think that's nuts, contrary to any reasonable moral intuition, that's because it is and, according to the latest science, not true.
These are the Ayatollahs, mostly based in Qom, who have great clout in the religious community, have been quiet on politics and are going to be getting louder, because they see Iran going in an unhealthy direction, a direction contrary to what Khomeini had in mind.
We persist also in being sidelined by the idea of the expert as the only one capable of coming up with answers, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Contrary to their peers who don't suffer with anxiety, they come to believe that they are incapable of managing these situations.
No, contrary to what's usually said, testability is common in myths and all sorts of other irrational modes of thinking.
On the contrary, it's a complex metaphysical worldview.
Now, contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
To the contrary, we knew that this project would destroy the environment: It would destroy riparian forests, which were the basis for the survival of nomadic groups, the Samburu and the Turkana in this area.
Because they consider this as contrary to the security interest of the people of Great Britain.
Or do you believe the people who tell you that aid is not going to help, on the contrary it might hurt, it might exacerbate corruption, dependence, etc.? Or maybe you turn to the past.
In fact, on the contrary, I think it's still true of a minority of people.
Regularity is the contrary of roughness because the basic aspect of the world is very rough.
These parents could not contemplate giving up the choice, because to do so would have gone contrary to everything they had been taught and everything they had come to believe about the power and purpose of choice.
And I think, on the contrary, that it is very important to solving the world's problems that we take evolutionary biology seriously.
And only one contrary data point can blow your theory out of the water.
On the contrary, because we bring it to every cultural plot where the balance was already disrupted by the chemicals.
And here it is direct on the contrary.
Because these consequences are not spelled out, the movie leaves the viewer feeling sympathetic to Mr. Wilson (hey, check out his latest projects on the Internet) instead of seeing him as an individual whose actions were contrary to the best interests of his country and the West as a whole.
Anyone who actually read "Origin Of Species" would be vividly aware that there was no breach with God in any of Darwin's work; to the contrary, there was an increased awe and respect, and a revolutionary new way of looking at things.
This film is BORING, BORING, BORING, BORING, and BORING!!! It's not the worse film I ever saw, on the contrary, but.......how shall I put this.......IT'S BORING!
Bruce Willis is all the contrary of his "fifth element"'s character.
Director Jaume Collet-Serra molds his take on the twin thing contrary to the theme of the past.
On the contrary: in case you still have to see a classic genre title, beware that bits and pieces of it here don't spoil your future viewing.
Water on the contrary does not progresses at all.
I'm not one of these people who thinks that genius plays are automatically inferior on film (quite the contrary), but this particular genius play has been tremendously under-served by this outing.
It isn't that Lubitsch is overrated--on the contrary, he probably was ahead of his time in terms of a visual narrative--yet the projects he became attached to (or was assigned to) are not quite the landmarks of comedy his fans like to label them.
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