The word 'refutation' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in the context of rebutting or denying a claim, idea, or opinion. For example, "The scholar provided a detailed refutation of the original argument."
Assuming their result stands up—and a slew of competitor experiments should provide confirmation or refutation in the coming months and years few would bet against a phone call from Stockholm at some point in the not too distant future.
Labour's lost love Let's go German Sin-free ale The father of fracking ReprintsGeorge Mitchell, who died on July 26th, was a one-man refutation of the declinist hypothesis.
The refutation of plausible hypotheses is the way that science progresses.
In the case of the 126 distinguished scholars and clerics who recently penned a lengthy, 24-point refutation, the dismissal was carefully argued on grounds of Islamic jurisprudence: a caliph can only be chosen by general consensus; anything else would be fitna, Arabic for strife or sedition.The yearning for the caliphate, and its propaganda value to IS, are understandable.
(Our detailed refutation of those accusations is here).Judge Kaplan also delivered an eviscerating commentary on the actions of Steven Donziger (pictured), a prominent New York lawyer who brought the successful action against Chevron, and two of his Ecuadorean clients.
But the judge's refutation is a blow to Mr Nisman's main theory, that Ms Fernández and the foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, cooked up a scheme to shield Iranian suspects in the bombing in exchange for a trade deal that would bring Iranian oil.It is unlikely to ease the political tension.
In his view, the start of war "was a tragedy, not a crime".With its meticulous refutation of the Fischer orthodoxy, the book has topped bestseller lists in Germany.
During the war he crunched numbers for his country, calculating the optimum number of pellets in anti-aircraft shells.These twin virtues are apparent in the middle third of this life, which lightly glosses over Friedman's most celebrated insights, such as his refutation of the bleak notion that capitalism is doomed to underconsumption, and his reassessment of the Great Depression.
Daily bouts of meditation on the immensity of the galaxies, he argues, will offer "solutions to our megalomania, self-pity and anxiety".Had it been written as a direct response, Mr Scruton's book, "The Face of God" could hardly be a stronger refutation of Mr de Botton's project.
The Indian remarks are so ridiculous that they are not even worthy of refutation, according to a Chinese foreign-ministry spokesman this week.
The directive, prepared by the military leaders, Marshall Georgi Zhukov and General Semyon Timoshenko, called for a strike against Germany.This unholy German-Russian alliance so incensed Gabriel Gorodetsky, professor of history at Tel Aviv University, that in 1995 he published a substantial refutation of Mr Suvorov in Moscow and in Russian—"Mif 'Ledokola'" (The myth of the icebreaker).
