The widespread rise in measles across Britain followed now discredited research suggesting the triple MMR vaccine could have been linked to autism.
From 1979 to 1982, then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker foisted the now discredited policy of monetarism on the U.S., and the world more broadly.
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But a decade ago many parents refused to have their children vaccinated after Andrew Wakefield's now discredited claims of a link between the jab and autism.
It would enormously strengthen the hand of democratic reformers and, in the long run, would have a positive, calming effect on Russia, where democracy is now discredited.
The reasons for going to war in Iraq - including the now discredited claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which could be used within 45 minutes of an order being given - have been a source of long-standing controversy.
That battle started with the now-discredited 1998 study published in The Lancet by Andrew Wakefield.
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Ruth Thomas, an expert on ancient Egypt, said the town could now be discredited by the Museums Association.
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This was the case in the widely publicized but now-discredited research by Dr. Andrew Wakefield that connected vaccines to autism.
Mr Bush, through his spokesman, treads carefully on this point, since a now-discredited federal school reform is part of the legacy of George Bush junior.
He cited now-discredited the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate as a politicized document designed to preclude any moves by the Bush Administration to stop Iran's advance.
The United States must immediately shift its policy emphasis away from the now-discredited Gorbachev regime and toward the genuine democratic and free market forces in the USSR.
That said the wider cause of globalism is now thoroughly discredited in the UK. Not the least of its problems is its close association with the bankers of the City of London.
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To this end, Brennan stressed that for the Obama administration, the now-discredited Fatah model of conferring political legitimacy and funding on terrorists in a bid to transform them into good citizens must be implemented for every terror group in the world except al-Qaida.
Last month, Dr Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP for Totnes and a former GP, said she believed the reason many parents in Totnes rejected the MMR vaccine was because of claims made by the now-discredited Dr Andrew Wakefield that the jab was linked to autism and bowel disease.
Our response to such appeals should be straightforward and firm: Those profligate Western governments and banks (especially in Germany, Italy and France) which showered credit guarantees and direct loans on the now-discredited central authorities in the Kremlin must shoulder most if not all of the burden and costs of Soviet debt rescheduling and forgiveness.
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That link has now been thoroughly discredited in various large studies.
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"So-called 'sceptics' should now drop their thoroughly discredited claims that the increase in global average temperature could be attributed to the impact of growing cities, " he said.
With that announcement, this committee now amazingly proposes to transform itself into the discredited Burton committee.
The danger now is that with the progressive big government policies discredited, conservatives will embrace the growth deficit, instead of growth policies, out of their ambition to defeat President Barack Obama in the 2012 election.
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Though the concept was discredited by 'picking winners' in the seventies, it is now growing in attractiveness.
Now is the time for them to stop trying to do so through failed and discredited approaches and to encourage one that might just succeed.
In early June, baseball's Houston Astros announced a deal with Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) that wiped the discredited Enron (otc: ENRNQ - news - people ) label from the facility now known as Minute Maid Park.
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