She's not allowed to openly doubt something that no one on earth has yet been able to tangibly prove?

As to the latter-making a mark-my father openly doubted his success.

He could not openly doubt that she was alive.

But he followed through, rather than embarrass Zyzzyva by openly doubting her.

It is a position that some analysts openly doubted when downgrading the company's shares.

Even without the overall economic turmoil, bankers openly doubted the valuation of many of the Trump assets.

When Proserpina had first arrived, Earthside openly doubted the images they sent back.

Some critics openly doubted his sanity in writing it.

Still, it would have been extremely impolite to openly doubt her words.

No one dared to doubt openly if they were in the right place, but some must have been wondering.