counter-empirical

In an even more counter-empirical vein, Mr. Gerson insists — without producing even a shred of anecdotal evidence — that “students and faculty” at American universities reject the Declaration of Independence as “a text written by dead white males” and that “few” prestigious academics would “accept the existence of a moral truth that applies to all cultures.”

Bush Speechwriter Flogs Horse, Re-fights the Culture Wars 2007

Yet this crucial element of Linder's story was abandon by most later trade economists in favor of the analytically-tractable but counter-empirical assumption that all countries share identical and homothetic preferences … Adding non-homothetic preferences to a traditional models helps explain such diverse phenomenon as growing wage gaps, the mystery of the missing trade, home bias in consumption, and the role of intra-country income distribution, solely from the demand side of general equilibrium.

Our Word is Our Weapon Jim 2010