canard

He revived the canard about vaccines contributing to a rise in autism, despite the connection having been thoroughly refuted by years of clinical research.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

They said that distinctive "canard fins", consistent with a PrSM, are visible in the footage.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

Bill Gates jumps off a bandwagon that existed in the first place only as a complete and utter canard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

This year, let’s agree to dispel the canard that “summer reading” or “beach books” are something frivolous or less important than the serious literature celebrated in austere outlets like the London Review of Books.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

One startling individual—a physician and a philosopher—emerged from his professional shell into full-fledged glory, as the greatest canard of all, and published revelations of his own intermediate intercourse with the terrific “Carter.”

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Let’s examine some of the other common canards about gun violence and gun laws, and start thinking about how to move the needle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

Well me too, I'm guilty of one of the great maybe canards of the modern Thanksgiving age which is this notion that you should brine the bird.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2018

In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018

I’d rather see Facebook make mistakes in pursuit of a better one than cling to the old canards about algorithmic neutrality.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2018

He held that Caesar's wife was above suspicion because she was Caesar's wife, and that no canards posted at midnight could affect his faith in his wife or in his friend.

From Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis