Word: discreditable
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...students perform poorer than their aptitude scores indicate. I don't believe that Klitgaard included Harvard College in his findings for had he, he would have discovered the antithesis among many of the minority students here. Lastly, the dichotomy of students chosen by Klitgaard is a racist attempt to discredit the presence of Third World students on campus. Certainly Klitgaard would never have compared the aptitude scores of the sons and daughters of Harvard/Radcliffe alumni or perhaps even athletes to the rest of Harvard's white population...
...Gerbner and his associates say that Hirsch misused statistics on TV watching from the National Opinion Research Center by basing his conclusions primarily on data about the heaviest and lightest viewers, who compose only 6% of those polled. Gerbner says that Hirsch is just "nibbling around the edges to discredit what is an ongoing study in the field." Perhaps the only firm conclusion possible now is that TV can indeed foster alienation, at least among social scientists...
...story horrified military commanders. General Richard H. Ellis, chief of the Strategic Air Command, whose men would fly the Stealth, telegraphed the Pentagon that the story "brought the hair up on the back of my neck." He urged his superiors to "discredit" the story...
Administration officials believe that the militants holding the hostages might have directed their allies in the U.S. to stage their demonstration with the hope of landing in jail. This would have given extremist Islamic factions in Iran a cause to exploit and so continue to discredit any efforts by President Abolhassan Banisadr, a relative moderate, to release the hostages. The militants also might be maneuvering to prevent an attempt by their clerical leaders to resolve the crisis. In London, where Iranians have demonstrated against the U.S. and been arrested, Scotland Yard also thinks that militants in Tehran might have been...
...because he spoke a little too well. This theme returned passionately in the countercultural '60s, when inarticulate sincerity seemed the answer to the state's mendacities. Some preached that imperialism, racism and sexism are deeply embedded in the language-a fact that, if true, would tend to discredit eloquence, to make it futile and wrong from the start...