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Quotes About Refuted

Worobey's work directly refuted the OPV hypothesis. If HIV-1 existed in humans as early as 1908, then obviously it hadn't been introduced via vaccine trials beginning in 1958.
~ David Quammen
By the 1970s and 1980s, the concept of 'phenotype'—which refers to surface features of humans such as skin colour, shape of nose, texture of hair, shape and size of skull, and so forth—on which those attempting to develop a tenable concept of race and a hierarchy of races had relied, had been compellingly refuted as a guide to genuine human variation.
~ Ali Rattansi
invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as one doomed to decay.
~ Emily Bronte
Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence.
~ Robert P. McCulloch
Arguments may be refuted, but who, it has been asked, can answer a sneer?
~ balfour arthur james vii
The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.
~ Guy Standing
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history
~ Michel Foucault
'The General Theory' was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.
~ Murray Rothbard
Global warming is a religion in the sense that it's a series of propositions that can't be refuted. It's very ironic that the global warming alarmists say, "We are the real defenders of science," and then they adopt the absolute reverse of the scientific attitude, which is openness to evidence. You cannot refute what they say.
~ George F. Will
argued, with the inventive cunning that each of us possesses when a pet theory of ours is refuted by the evidence
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.
~ Murray N. Rothbard