contrary to reason

It is also contrary to reason,” Alioto said.

The natural human appetite for rich and sugary foods is thereby derided as not only contrary to reason but also something to be tamed, shunned, even shamed.

Writing about Galileo’s work on falling bodies, and the discovery that bodies with different weights fall at the same speed, Boyle later held this up as an example of how as scientists ‘we assent to experience, even when its information seems contrary to reason’.

Delay is fundamentally contrary to reason.

Panahi is a reasonable director; he depicts the exaggerations and absurdities of the regime and the contortions of behavior in response to rules and laws that are silly, contrary to reason.