Word: discreditation
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...reams of detective work, there's no smoking gun," says TIME science reporter Alice Park. "It doesn't have solid scientific proof behind it." Don't look for Korber's team to start celebrating their trump card just yet. As befits their profession, scientists remain unwilling to totally discredit any conclusion or wholeheartedly endorse their own; it will take something far more absolute than a new theory to effect anything more than imperturbability from the scientific community...
There's a danger that conservation groups will put out too many messages or that the anarchists who rioted in Seattle will discredit the whole movement. But for now, the greens are betting they can get more of us to think about what we buy and how our pocketbooks can help protect the planet...
However much stronger the Western democracies were after the war, as they went on to discredit not only fascism but communism as well, that strength still came at a terrible cost. "How much happier a world it would be if one did not have to mount crusades against racism, segregation, a Holocaust, the extermination of 'inferior peoples,'" notes presidential historian Robert Dallek. "We don't need evil. We'd do fine without Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. Think of the amount of money and energy used in World War II--if only they could have been used in constructive ways. Good...
...Russian casualties and never show combat. When things go wrong, as they apparently did last week in Grozny, the official response to foreign reports is apoplectic. Accounts of the incident were, said General Alexander Zdanovich, spokesman for the internal security service, "active measures" concocted by Western intelligence services to discredit Russia...
...question is, which is it? Is Monica the pawn of a vast right-wing conspiracy, as Hillary so famously charged, or is she part of a vast left-wing effort to discredit Linda Tripp? Both? Neither? Who knows. The only certain thing is that the fallout from her time with the commander in chief will continue well into the next millennium...