The Igs spawned an accompanying journal, the Annals of Improbable Research, in turn no doubt inspiring the Journal of Universal Rejection, which rejects every submission received, and the recently launched Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science, whose acronym (PNIS) speaks for itself.
"Thirteen support Nihon Kaigi, a nationalist think-tank that advocates a return to 'traditional values' and rejects Japan's 'apology diplomacy' for its wartime misdeeds.
The shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, also rejects a binding vote, but admitted he has changed his position on the issue.
Related: Edinburgh university rejects calls to divest from all fossil fuels There wasn't much that was black and white beyond a fundamental agreement that human activity, and as a large part of that the burning of fossil fuels for energy, was driving climate change.
Caborn rejects that with some impatience: "I am close to a lot of people," he says.
I am fed up with complacency and cronyism, and I'm fed up with the floppy-haired Eton club Richard Desmond The newspaper publisher is the owner of the Sunday Express, the Daily Star and OK! magazine, as well as Television X and the Red Hot adult channels, although he strongly rejects descriptions of himself as a pornography baron.
The experimental protocol was overseen by Professor Gary Green of the York Neuroimaging Centre at York University, who rejects the suggestion that he or his team were manipulated by the BBC.
He constantly rejects suggestions that he is close to his peak, holding on to the view that he can keep going, as Andre Agassi has, into his early thirties.
A fair society is not only open and free, it is also one that rejects huge inequalities of income and wealth, opposes coercion of the powerless, and believes in the common good.
The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party is demanding a fresh election administered by an independent interim government, which the ruling Awami League flatly rejects.
Whether or not Lancashire county council grants or rejects Cuadrilla's application, and whether or not any subsequent appeals or legal challenges succeed, fracking has already left its mark on the Fylde.
