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This was widely discredited. I learned about how it was patently false in high school.

I just do not like that a country of over a billion is discredited due to the acts of a few. Neither am I saying that the acts of those few should be ignored, of course not.

> On the other hand, building libraries to abstract unsafe pointers has been somewhat discredited by C++ and shared_ptr. I think we do a lot better than C++.

If the quacks and charlatans aren't purged soon, the either field will be discredited. You can't practice alchemy or voodoo and expect people to treat you like a scientist.

They're being discredited in a very similar way, only much more thoroughly. How do we know that all of that paper's detractors haven't been bought in a similar way?

I love that you just made up all the details to his idea, and then discredited it... and then said you know a better way, but assumed no one would listen.

I think you miss the point, almost anyone can be discredited with enough information and power. Take a look at Russian elections, there were no other viable candidates for a reason.

>It has a long history of shifting its positions, and a long history of debunked and discredited bodies of theory This is not a bad thing on its own. It just means the search space is large and complex with many potholes and convergence will take a while yet.

"It may be asked why it is even worth spending time on these remnants of the utterly discredited postmodernist movement." This is just so ignorant and backward that I have a hard time taking the author of this article seriously.

As for Chomsky - well, he's completely discredited to me after comparing his writings about Southeast Asia to spending significant amounts of time in SE Asia. Also the ex-Communist countries.

Please, please everyone promise me to never base your investment decisions on this discredited form of mean-variance optimization. This method of stock selecting was invented by Harry Markowitz in 1952.

Then concrete examples of "Agile" processes started to appear, and a few less proven or even discredited practices were added to the basically good ideas. Suddenly, despite valuing people over processes or some such vacuous claim, it's all about The Process again.

Snowden clearly indicated that he did not want this controversy to become about him, and he indicated that he only came out to vindicate the Guardian story from being discredited. Nobody knows his current financial situation.

For those curious for more details about "He scores high on the crackpot index, but not high enough to be completely discredited as a lunatic. His litigious nature and ability to wrangle the legal system in order to label everything "mine" is what keeps him in business."

If I am jailed or in some other fashion publicly discredited through an otherwise seemingly unrelated matter in the future, you should always remember that I have made this public statement."

He has utterly discredited the horse race scam of big media political coverage. That is a significant contribution, because such coverage has been so influential in managing public opinion and how people think about politics.

You and I might debate it, but a realistic analysis of the circumstances of al-Awlaki has to acknowledge that the strategy was discredited. Consider carefully what the real differences between al-Awlaki and al-Zawahiri actually were.

* * * I would like to see your sources for the statement “learning styles is more or less discredited”, as it does not align with my experience either as a student, as an observer of other students, or as the son of a school teacher. It seems completely obvious and non-controversial to me that some people have an easier time following verbal conversation than others, that some have an easier time reading/writing, that some people are more attuned to pictures/graphic elements, etc.

The idea that the character of the whistleblowers themselves has anything to do with the quality or impact of the information they leak is a propaganda trick enforced by the media-- a leak with a face can be discredited if the face can be discredited, and in the 21st century, everyone has skeletons in the closet. Additionally, if your aim is to obscure, it's far easier to focus on the flaws of the person behind the leaks than the leak itself.