What is "discredited"

Usage examples of "discredited".

Hundreds of private drug-rehabilitation centers and their leaders keep this policy alive and in front of the media, often quoting discredited reports from NIDA or DEA (see Chapter 16, debunking) - because they earn fat profits selling their useless or destructive "marijuana treatment" for children.

The spurious results of Heath, Nahas, and the pregnant mice and monkey studies at Temple University and UC Davis (where they injected mice with synthetic third-cousin analogues of THC) are now discredited in the body of scientific and medical literature.

Old, discredited Nahas studies are still trotted out by the Drug Enforcement Administration today, and deliberately given to unknowledgeable parents' groups, churches, and PTAs as valid research regarding the evils of pot.

Yet the DEA, NIDA, VISTA, the "War on Drugs," and now-deceased writer Peggy Mann (in Reader's Digest articles and her book Marijuana Alert, wilth foreward by Nancy Reagan) have used these discredited studies on parents' groups such as Parents for a Drug Free Youth, etc.

Even the discredited left breast, with the slash of matted scarlet on its globular underside—even that one was better than anything Star-Mother could offer.

She might see her own discredited breast bobbing, scarlet and matted on its underside.

If Star-Admiral Mennus is discredited with the regent, the regent will be discredited with the Gyrgon.

With Valentine on the run, Daniel missing, and Stephanie discredited, Constance runs Clan Wolfe these days.

Far better, though, that she die a martyr than live to be discredited and bounded into a sandy grave.

If, and I say if with advisement, Komarov can be discredited, his popular support culled away from him, what then, Nigel?

Albert Einstein, a keen critic of prejudice and privilege all his life, considered this "absolute" physics a remnant of an increasingly discredited Earth chauvinism.

Instead of criticizing those who perpetuated the myths, public rancor was directed at those who discredited them.

When all the old religions were discredited - let me tell you about Pope Pius XX sometime - one of the greatest men in history!

Unfortunately, it has been largely discredited by claims that such evidence has already been found - and has been deliberately suppressed by NASA!