Word: disproven
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Which brings us back to my friend Howard Dean. I strongly opposed his candidacy for president. I was angry about his cheap shots at Dick Gephardt. I was disdainful of his intemperance (well before the Iowa scream), scornful of his disproven theory that all you need to win is an excited liberal base (the base isn’t big enough), and—I confess—absolutely gleeful at the news that Mr. Fiscally Conservative Governor had squandered tens of millions of the Deaniacs’ Internet money...
...objections: the claims that the humorous nature of the writing makes it harmless (“it need not be protested”), and that the writing is protected as free speech and free press (“it cannot be protested”). The first argument is easily disproven. It supposes that mockery, by being different from more severe expressions of racial ill will, is necessarily distinct from them. If this is true, then what taboo bars enjoyment of blackface comedy? The derision inherent in blackface, like that in “Gay or Asian?”, helps...
...INDICATORS Disproven Reserves Shares in Royal Dutch/Shell fell over 7% after the Anglo-Dutch oil group slashed its estimate of proven oil and gas reserves by 20% following an internal review...
Kokkalis has responded to these allegations in a statement posted on the website of his telecommunications firm, Intracom. Entitled “A Reply to the Slanderers,” the statement denies all allegations and says that Kathimerini has published similar allegations in the past which have been disproven...
Even though his speculations have yet to be proven or disproven conclusively, he has appeared in many articles, on television and he is currently on a three-week book tour in the U.S. and the United Kingdom...