dogma

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Mr. Schaller upended the dogma by observing animals in their own habitats, arriving at the critical awareness that to maintain a healthy planet we must manage whole ecosystems, not individual species.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

For more than a century, the phrase “sell in May and go away, and come back on St. Leger’s Day,” has been treated as dogma by many financial pundits.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

But Bill Sutherland, a biologist at the University of Cambridge, has found that some dogma in conservation is flat-out wrong when put to the test.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

He has called for reform of the policy, a principle he fully supports but believes is being wrongly applied and has become a dogma that can be used to conceal wrongdoing.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

The ultimate demise of the Clovis dogma was inevitable, David Henige, author of Numbers from Nowhere, told me.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann