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Galileo also disproved the principle that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, by dropping an apple and a watermelon off the top of a tower.
The results do not provide support for a major role for skewed X-chromosome inactivation in female predisposition to autoimmunity; however, neither is the underlying hypothesis disproved by our data.
I do not mean that racism must be assumed and then disproved, although the track record of corporate America would almost make this allowable, but that assumptions must be thoroughly examined for all implications before even the first result is paraded about like the emperor's new clothes.
A few years ago, we thought that notion was disproved when Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Terry McMillan were simultaneously on the bestseller list.
Gripes: 1) Friedman's belief in global economics and American-style capitalism's ability to solve the world's ills reads more like cheerleading than analysis: "[O]nly a New York Times foreign affairs columnist could write a book so relentlessly upbeat about the USA's prospects in an ever more tightly integrated world without being accused of unsophisticated boosterism" (David J. Lynch, USA Today ). 2) Some of his theories have already been disproved: His "Golden Arches" theory of international relations held that no two countries that both had a McDonald's have ever gone to war.