refutation

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Every single refutation of their conspiracy theory just proves that the conspiracy goes even further and deeper than they thought.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025

Yet I spelled out the two-part criteria for defining cases, qualifying them as “extraordinary evidence” and opening myself to a decisive refutation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

He also coauthored a detailed refutation of the theory that the Taurid swarm caused a global climate disaster 12,900 years ago.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2025

A Stanford professor and colleagues offer a point-by-point refutation to fight the falsehoods.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

They are interested solely in confirming highly dubious theoretical hypotheses by the logic of analogy and induction, and make no attempt at refutation or intersubjective testing.’

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok