Word: discrediting
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Shockley's views have been open to serious question all along, and other scientists have taken pains to discredit both the quality of his scholarship and the validity of his conclusions (TIME May 15). Under the First Amendment, however, not only does Shockley have the right to propound his notions, but those who would like to hear them are entitled...
...Florida VVAW know that a former CIA agent was paid $1000 a week to "infiltrate, disrupt and discredit the VVAW," Perdue added. He said that there are a lot of suspicious bits and pieces that the group had not yet put together--car break-ins, missing mail and lots of tapped phones...
...subversion. No foreign observers were allowed in the courtroom. Tass reported that both men had freely confessed-in a manner that sounded reminiscent of Stalin's farcical purge trials of the '30s -to various acts against the state. In what seemed an attempt by the authorities to discredit Solzhenitsyn, their testimony supposedly described him as a sympathetic reader of a banned underground newspaper...
...alone, but I'm not so lonely anymore. You could explain me away with ease: a rich girl radicalized, a neurotic psychoanalyzed, and then the political radical rejecting psychoanalytic individualism for feminist collectivism. You could type me and pigeon-hole me and attach your label to my name to discredit me by such convention. And I know you will. Go right ahead. But my experiences are as true as your explanations...
...activities on grounds of national security. His view of national security, in turn, derives from his unabashed right-wing politics and his almost paranoid suspicion of anyone who criticizes U.S. policies. The break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, he says, was DPI not to discredit Ellsberg personally but to find out whether Ellsberg "might he a controlled agent for the Sovs [Soviets]." Says Hunt: "He spent a period at Cambridge, and a lot of defectors like [British Double Agent Kim] Philby and others were from Cambridge...