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View definitions for discredited

discredited

adjective as in repudiated

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Again, he doesn’t concern himself with the elaborate details of this or that discredited election-fraud conspiracy theory.

From Salon

A number of right-wing influencers and organisations pushing stories about “cheating” and a “rigged” vote pointed to incomplete vote totals and continued to repeat discredited theories about the 2020 election.

From BBC

Trump has said he’ll grant a prominent health role to supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has made discredited claims about vaccines and bucked the advice of pediatricians and dentists by advocating an end to water fluoridation.

The embrace of discredited Republicans may also have contributed to further losses in rural areas, as well as with independent voters and young voters who are extremely unhappy with the status quo.

From Slate

Kennedy has for years claimed on the basis of discredited evidence that vaccinations cause autism and was involved in an anti-vaccination campaign in American Samoa which resulted in the deaths of 83 individuals, “most of them young children,” from measles.

From Slate

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