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The teacher gave him a failing grade for basing his report on discredited research.
I was discredited.
Although scientists and skeptics have many times managed to debunk conspiracy theories, believers nevertheless maintain an unreasoning attachment to the discredited ideas.
Let’s take, for example the myth that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is the cause of autism. This claim has been completely discredited, yet several Hollywood celebrities continue to endorse it, some backing an anti-vaccine film made by pseudo-scientists.
An anthropologist wrongly applied the word "Semitic" not just to languages like Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew but specifically to ethnically and culturally Jewish people. More ominously, from 1880 through the Nazi period of German history, racists extended the word "Aryan," which had meant the Sanskrit-Persian language family, to deliberately foster the vile and discredited theory of a so-called Aryan race.
Jordan Peterson is a weird mystic who bases his ideas on the discredited pseudoscience of Carl Jung.
Neoconservatism has discredited itself.
They discredited themselves.
You discredited yourself.
Most are against it; only a few are in favour. Still, most go along with it, and only a few resist. Those who do resist are publicly ostracised and discredited.
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A reputedly valiant but discredited warrior is speared to death by killers in the service of another warrior, who is also reputedly valiant but even more discredited: it is a false denouement for a false tragedy .
I will tell you though, that as a scientific theory, "Darwinism" is probably THE most discredited theory ever put forth by ANY scientist at ANY time in the history of mankind; and why it is so desperately hung onto, and clung to by educators and scientists the way it is, well it's way beyond me.
Antonia, a day-care center owner in Jardim Sudoeste, said, "Honestly, not just for myself, but for many others, the politician is very discredited. I feel like I have no father or mother.”
Films perpetuate completely discredited historical theories about events (director Oliver Stone based his film JFK on a discredited report on the Kennedy assassination; see Section 13.6).
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