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That common-sense hypothesis has been discredited by research.
This rather pleasing etymology stood for a while but was discredited when R.M.W. Dixon failed to find an etymon in a Queensland language, despite a brave attempt to locate the origin in a putative Jagara word which was glossed as wandering white man.
Taking on corporate welfare might backfire, casting Clinton in the discredited role of Democratic scourge of business.
But once people read about the physical benefits that accrue from writing, I'm sure that writing clinics will spring up in California, land of all good fads, or if the JAMA study is discredited and writing clinics are outlawed, then they will spring up in Mexico.
In between them lay a physical war that wiped out a world and an intellectual war that discredited a past.