Word: discredit
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...activists "to give my slide show in their voices," with a limited-use license to remix its music and images. But the best measure of the potential impact of the Gore film may be the fact that there's already an oil-industry-financed ad campaign to discredit...
...regarding the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant was full of misinformation that reflected a profound misunderstanding of nuclear plant operations, security, and emergency planning. Zamore not only cited “The Simpsons” but also the Nagasaki bomb and Chernobyl in her effort to discredit Vermont Yankee. The fact is that Vermont Yankee has always operated safely; Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspections have rated it at the highest (best) regulatory classification. This is attributable to everyone in the organization having a clear safety focus, making conservative decisions, and doing timely maintenance and upgrades.The op-ed reflected no understanding...
...attack. So the murder of the Ketheeswarans, who were ethnic Tamils living near a naval base, was viewed by some as revenge by wayward sailors. Others saw it differently: some supporters of the Tigers blamed rival Tamils; an aide to President Mahinda Rajapakse spoke of unspecified forces "trying to discredit the President"; and Sinhalese nationalists even suggested the Tigers had killed their own to justify future attacks. To make sense of the latest fighting, here is a guide to an all but intractable conflict that sometimes seems to make no sense...
...work upon to produce legs from fins. That article presented more evidence of the grip that evolution has on the mind of scientists than it did for the theory. Jeff Prather Diamond Springs, California, U.S. The fishapod article and accompanying Viewpoint used straw-man arguments in an attempt to discredit intelligent design and creationism. They even went so far as to insinuate that without a belief in amoebas-to-man evolution, we are doomed to succumb to a pandemic. Nonsense! One doesn't need to believe in unobservable and unrepeatable macroevolution to have a comprehensive working knowledge of genetics. Creationists...
...Viswanathan for her apparent literary “borrowing.” Some people have said it was too early for us to run the comic because the news story had just broken and that it seemed as if the news and editorial boards were working together to discredit the sophomore. In fact, because of the news-editorial wall, no news editor was part of the discussion of whether the comic should run—indeed, nobody from news even knew the comic would run until late in the evening. The editorial chairs and I decided it was fair...