Sentence examples for discredited theory from inspiring English sources

In the 1990s both were part of a relatively popular but now largely discredited theory about rising youth crime.

Vaccines worry parents, in part because of an old, unfounded, and ultimately discredited theory that children who receive measles vaccines develop autism at higher rates than other children.

According to this now discredited theory, bumps on the skull betray the volume of the brain areas beneath each one, granting insight into a subject's cognitive or moral strengths and weaknesses.

Most of the resistance to Mr. Hannas's argument, however, comes from linguists who say he is trying to revive a discredited theory about the connection between language and thought.

The study was later retracted, and the author's medical license has since been revoked; even so, some figures on both the far left and the far right have embraced the widely discredited theory.

He first debunks some of the claims made by Gavin Menzies, a retired British submarine officer who has popularized the largely discredited theory that Chinese treasure fleets reached the Americas in the 1420s.

Tax defiers or "tax protesters" as they've traditionally been known glom onto one kooky, discredited theory or another as to why the income tax is illegal or doesn't apply to them personally or doesn't cover their normal sources of income.

As the cohort of children who were not given the MMR vaccine because of the scare caused by Andrew Wakefield's now-discredited theory about autism grow older, the chances of further large outbreaks increase.

This long-discredited theory, so convenient for the rich, has been exploded by the International Monetary Fund – no lefties – which finds that virtually all countries could raise top rates far higher and bring in significant extra sums.

And over the years, you have taken some positions on the takings clause, for example, on the federal taxing power, on the 10th Amendment, on the now long-discredited theory about economic due process, which seem, at least as I read some of those earlier writings of yours, to be at odds with mainstream legal thought.

Advances in epigenetics spur modern support for a long-discredited theory of inheritance.