Word: disproof
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Pasteur interpreted the experiment, which involved opening sealed, sterile flasks containing culture media under different atmospheric conditions, as a disproof of the then-accepted theory of spontaneous generation...
LESLEY STAHL, 35, is telegenic disproof of the premise that girls who wear glasses seldom get studio passes. She has resisted suggestions from her bosses at CBS-and her mother-that she replace her horn-rims with contact lenses. After Stahl's first network stand-up report, her mother complained from Boston: "Sixty million Americans saw you tonight. One of them was my future son-in-law, but he's never going to call you for a date because you wore glasses!" Actually Stahl, who now makes more than $50,000 a year...
...would hardly be more surprised if a live dodo waddled into the Parke-Bernet auction room. Drawings also are not a young man's hobby; they demand a degree of patient connoisseurship (tinged with philatelic mania) that only the old usually have. But late last month a remarkable disproof of the rule went on show at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library: a group of 115 works from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw...
...make thousands of big advertisers produce documentary evidence backing up their claims for product pricing, safety and performance-has so far proved a disappointing dud. Over the past year, the effort has produced a mountain of data but little more than a molehill of definite proof or definitive disproof of product plugs...
...constructed, it becomes reasonable to ask whether the contradiction derived from two experiments is of the same order as the explicit contradiction in a proof of one theory coupled with the simultaneous proof of the other--or, whether a truth is as true without a simultaneous disproof of its converse...