disproved

This fallacy was amply disproved by the "cat-eating Haitians" lie.

One man told police he had seen Lindsay being dragged into a car and had followed it to a nearby reservoir but his claims were disproved.

Specifically, New York’s decision to disbar Giuliani establishes that lawyers may not make false or misleading statements in court, legislative hearings, or the media based on unsigned documents, unverified websites, and unsupported affidavits that could be easily disproved by a reasonable attorney with minimal effort.

Even after those claims were disproved again and again, Trump persisted.

A hasty experiment disproved that but revealed another surprise: Vaults contained snippets of RNA, albeit ones far too short to be a viral genome.