In February 2011, the Bombay High Court reaffirmed astrology's standing in India when it dismissed a case which had challenged its status as a science.

He said the two allegations of misconduct were trivial administrative issues and had nothing to do with the discovery of bubble nuclear fusion or the underlying science, and that " all allegations of fraud and fabrication have been dismissed as invalid and without merit — thereby supporting the underlying science and experimental data as being on solid ground ".

Until the 1970s, literary critics dismissed Thoreau's late pursuits as amateur science and philosophy.

A poll conducted in the 1970s by the United States Information Agency in several countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa found that most respondents were unaware of the Moon landings, many of the others dismissed them as propaganda or science fiction, and many thought that it had been the Russians that landed on the Moon.

They repudiated the cult of the past and all imitation, praised originality, " however daring, however violent ", bore proudly " the smear of madness ", dismissed art critics as useless, rebelled against harmony and good taste, swept away all the themes and subjects of all previous art, and gloried in science.

An advocate of modern science and political teaching, rather than the strict classical education afforded by schools, he was dismissed from his post and entered the Yunnan Military Academy in Kunming.

Although often dismissed as a lightweight forerunner of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Chambers ' book was in reality a programme for the unification of science which aimed to show that Laplace's nebular hypothesis for the origin of the solar system and Lamarck's theory of species transformation were both instances ( in Lewes ' phrase ) of ' one magnificent generalization of progressive development.

" Under questioning from committee member Jay Inslee Inhofe dismissed the notion that he was less knowledgeable than climate scientists, saying that he ’ d already given “ five speeches on the science .” His testimony included mention of a book of his which he claimed was forthcoming, saying, " I won ’ t tell you what it ’ s about, but it ’ s titled The Hoax.

These scientists dismissed conservation issues and distanced themselves from the scientists and the science that raised the issues.

Russian cultural heritage was under attack, churches were closed, old specialists were dismissed, and science and art were proletarianized.

Though Hessen ’ s work is now easily dismissed as " vulgar Marxism ", its focus on the relationship between society and science was, in its time, seen as novel and inspiring.

While the EPA report was initially hailed by some environmentalists critical of the Bush administration as a " 180-degree turn on the science " reversing " everything the president has said about global warming since he took office ," within days President Bush dismissed the report as being " put out by the bureaucracy ," fired his Republican appointee who wrote it and reaffirmed his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol.

Telefunken's director of research, Dr. Wilhelm Runge, was unimpressed, and dismissed the idea as science fiction.

With the progression of science and pharmacological understanding this belief has been dismissed by most researchers.

According to Quine, this appeal to science to ground the project of studying knowledge, which itself underlies science, should not be dismissed for its circularity since it is the best option available after ruling out traditional philosophic methods for their more serious flaws.

He is a Kandilkari and was assigned to the Stargazer to replace the previous chief science officer, Juanita Valderrama, who had been dismissed because of unethical behaviour.

He dismissed the objections raised in Wallace's review in the Academy as " almost stereotyped ", but to his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin the generous and polite exchanges formed a " perfectly beautiful " controversy, and thought that " In future histories of science the Wallace-Darwin episode will form one of the few bright points.

Though 19th century science is of only historical interest, his command of the English language, or at least of its Yankee version, is unimpeachable, so his definitions cannot be dismissed lightly.

Wilson draws on a large number of accounts of recorded events said to be " paranormal " but dismissed by materialist science as mass hallucination, e. g. the visions in Fátima, Portugal, and various UFO sightings.

His influence in logic ( especially the analysis of terms ), science ( impetus and infinitesimals ), politics ( placing the people over kings ), Church ( councils over Popes ), and international law ( establishing the human rights of " savages " conquered by the Spanish ) can be traced across the centuries and appear decidedly modern, and it is only in the modern age that he is not routinely dismissed as a scholastic.

This system is known as a " presidential system " and sometimes called the " imperial model ", because the executive officials of the government are answerable solely and exclusively to a presiding, acting head of state, and is selected by and on occasion dismissed by the head of state without reference to the legislature.

Consequently, a number of other core tenets of the Pharisees ' belief system ( which became the basis for modern Judaism ), were also dismissed by the Sadducees.

Finally in November 1755, Pitt was dismissed from office as paymaster, having spoken during a debate at great length against the new system of continental subsidies proposed by the government of which he was still a member.

In the U. S. federal judicial system, a moot case must be dismissed, there being a constitutional limitation on the jurisdiction of the federal courts.

Randolph's theory was dismissed from the realm of allergology as the condition is not mediated by the humoral immune system.

It has come to dominate the nation's educational system, security forces, and national symbols and monuments, although it has been dismissed as nationalist by Western historians.

The crisis brought to a head two Westminster conventions that, under the Australian constitutional system, were in conflict – firstly, that a government may continue to govern for as long as it has the support of the lower house, and secondly, that a government that no longer has access to supply must either resign or be dismissed.

However, it was dismissed out of hand by the Liberal and Bloc Québécois leaders, as they tend to be favored by the first-past-the-post system, normally being allocated a greater proportion of seats than the proportion of votes cast for them.

The plans for a liberal communal based education system incorporating schools, village halls and community centres floundered against local bureaucracy and finance and offered little more than a tripartite school system which itself would be abandoned as ineffectual in favour of comprehensive schools later to be dismissed as " bog standard "

In December 2002, a coroner's inquest into the death of Kimberly Rogers recommended numerous changes to the government's welfare legislation, which Community and Social Services Minister Brenda Elliott dismissed as unnecessary tinkering with a system that " was working effectively ".

The Mending Apparatus-the system charged with repairing defects that appear in the Machine proper-has also failed by this time, but concerns about this are dismissed in the context of the supposed omnipotence of the Machine itself.

Jaroslav Kříženecký ( 1896 – 1964 ) was one of the prominent Czechoslovak geneticists opposing Lysenkoism, and when he criticized Lysenkoism in his lectures, he was dismissed from the Agricultural University in 1949 for " serving the established capitalistic system, considering himself superior to the working class, and being hostile to the democratic order of the people ", and imprisoned in 1958.

Walton dismissed this, noting that the medical examination had found no trace of head trauma or drugs in his system.

An oversight board dismissed the bribery charge, but agreed the sound system unduly influenced voters.

This belief system has been dismissed as a " work of a paranoid imagination which wove together the histories of three disparate groups of activists, creating a conspiracy among them where none existed ".

This system was a radically parliamentary system because the State Elder could be dismissed by the Parliament with a simple majority.

Wilhelm II had dismissed " Iron " Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and his Realpolitik system of treaties and agreements in 1890, replacing Bismarck's clear rule with a muddle and his foreign policies with a confrontational, expansionist Weltpolitik that was marked by a great build-up of the German Navy meant to challenge Britain.

Marshall Hall appealed on the grounds that the evidence of " system " has been improperly admitted but Lord Reading LCJ dismissed the appeal and Smith was hanged in Maidstone Prison by John Ellis.

But uniformity of clothing was not to be expected so long as the " enlistment " system prevailed and soldiers were taken in and dismissed at the beginning and end of every campaign.

All this was a direct affront to the Soviet system, and Shafarevich was dismissed from Moscow University.

After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Radbruch was dismissed from his civil service post, as the universities were public entities.

Indeed, sense-data have been dismissed by some philosophers of mind, such as Donald Davidson, as mythological entities that are more troublesome than the entities that they were intended to replace.

Bostetter dismissed the government's involuntary bankruptcy petition, finding that two of the entities involved were nonprofit fund-raisers and therefore not subject to involuntary bankruptcy actions.

As this case is the latest in a lineage of high-profile cases, such as DeShaney v. Winnebago County, in which lawsuits against governmental entities for failure to prevent harm to an individual were dismissed, it has also been used by gun rights advocates in the United States to add additional weight to the self-defense argument for private gun ownership.

In November 2003 U. S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway removed the Hawaiian Homelands-related entities and the U. S. federal government from the suit and in January 2004 dismissed the rest of the suit on the grounds that legislatures, not courts, should decide the questions at issue.