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The following account of Mr. John Coutts and his family were [sic] communicated by the earl of Dundonald to the editor of the Morning Post, in refutation of anecdotes published in a pamphlet, entitled “Life of Thomas Coutts,” &c.
After all, if you draw attention a bad idea by refuting it, you also put your refutation on record.
But it's not clear from any of these stories whether the market's gain of nearly 3,000 points (this upswing is noted by the LAT ) since then is confirmation or refutation of Greenspan's fears.
The number of examples in this category could be increased, and some have already been considered in the literature, for example the spurious discovery of a 'functional PDZ domain' in the molecular chaperone ClpA ([ 46], see refutation in [ 47]) or the finding of an ATPase domain and death effector domains in the apoptosis-associated protein FLASH ([ 48], see refutation in [ 49]).
American history is widely interpreted as the pre-eminent refutation of Karl Marx's social and political theories.