Moreover, says Strabo, none of the other authors mention Thule, a fact which he uses to discredit Pytheas, but which to moderns indicates Pytheas was the first explorer to arrive there and tell of it.

The experiments of Redi on the hatching of insects from eggs, which were published at Florence in 1668, first brought discredit upon this doctrine, though it had always a few eminent disciples.

Because the entire MJ-12 affair made its first appearance only a year after Bray had made public the incriminating Canadian documents about the secret UFO committee, one theory is that the Project Aquarius Teletype message was part of a counterintelligence hoax to discredit the information in the just-revealed Canadian documents.

From the time of the first ecumenical council the Christian church forbids voluntary physical castration, and the alleged self-castration of the theologian Origen was used to discredit him.

This type of memory has specifically come into focus when discussing “ Sight Reading ” since the process of looking at musical notes for the first time and deciphering them while playing an instrument can undoubtedly be considered a “ complex task of comprehension .” The main conclusion in terms of this idea is that, “ Working memory and short-term memory capacity and mental speed are three important predictors for sight reading achievement .” Although none of the studies discredit the correlation between the amount of time one spends practicing and musical ability, specifically, sight-reading proficiency, more studies are pointing to the level at which one ’ s working memory functions as the key factor in sight-reading abilities.

He was also one of the first to discredit the fraudulent " Tatunca Nara " story, which had gained publicity in the German and Brazilian media.

She was occasionally a controversial figure, once pointing out that Quebec Premier Jean Charest's first name was really " John " in an attempt to discredit him as a representative of the " true " Quebec.

During the long voyage out to Australia an attempt was made ( with or without official connivance ) to discredit Muir, Skirving and Palmer by implicating them in an alleged mutiny led by the first mate.

The first yarn was of fair quality, but sales resistance was heavy, and silk associates worked zealously to discredit acetate and discourage its use.

The author of the study, Dennis Bruce, went on to testify at the Finance Committee ’ s Public Hearings on Income Trusts in February 2007 and issued a press release following his first day of testimony entitled " Independent economists discredit govt tax leakage claims " which outlines the numerous gross errors that were made by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and the government in asserting the claim of $ 500 million in annual tax leakage.

Gilson asked the man two sets of questions: The first regarding the UFO sighting and the man's claims to being a military intelligence officer ; the second concerning whether the man was colluding with anyone ( specifically Klass and / or the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ) in order to discredit Walton, and whether a military superior had indeed ordered the man to keep quiet about the UFO report.

Baron Konstantin von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister was first opposed to this arrangement, but changed his mind when he decided that the British would never accept the 35: 100 ratio, and having Ribbentrop head the mission was the best way to discredit his rival.

The first objective of the Soviet plan was to discredit Sikhs as violent terrorists.

Regarding the first claim, Golitsyn had said from the beginning that the KGB would try to plant defectors in an effort to discredit him.

Seeking revenge on Honor, Pavel Young first tries to discredit her and then hires a professional duelist, former marine Denver Summervale, to challenge Honor's lover Paul Tankersley to a duel.

Billy replaced him as Fulchester's first choice goalkeeper, and Jackson has since spent much time attempting to kill or otherwise discredit Billy in order to gain his place back.

Heavy Metal also for the first time reveals what really happened at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad ; how Iraqi Special Republican Guard soldiers used the museum as a defensive position ; how museum employees and others hid most of the artifacts before the fighting began ; and how the number of items stolen was exaggerated by a member of the museum staff in interviews with international media in an apparent effort to discredit the American military.

" Some of the reports that were first used to discredit the rape charges originated with an Iranian dissident group accused of serious human-rights violations, one that is classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and Iran ( the National Council of Resistance of Iran ).

He is regarded as the first historian to discredit conventional historical beliefs about the ' Mfecane ' - a term used to describe a period of wars during the 1820s and 1830s that resulted in the emergence of the Zulu nation.

When Kiss arrives for their show, Devereaux first attempts to discredit them by unleashing a robotic Gene Simmons, which proceeds to damage buildings in the park and to injure a security guard.

Brian Stead, returning to Berlin for the first time since 1945 to oversee a natural gas drilling deal, finds his past coming back to haunt him in a nasty plot to discredit him by a rival company.

The term " flak " has been used to describe what Chomsky and Herman see as efforts to discredit organizations or individuals who disagree with or cast doubt on the prevailing assumptions which Chomsky and Herman view as favorable to established power ( e. g., " The Establishment ").

In 1960, a Central Intelligence Agency cover called Gibraltar Steamship Company ( which didn't own any steamships and whose president was Cabot ) owned and established Radio Swan on Swan Island, a covert black operation to win supporters for U. S. policies and discredit Fidel Castro.

In 1960, a Central Intelligence Agency cover called Gibraltar Steamship Company ( which didn't own any steamships and whose president was Thomas Dudley Cabot ) owned and established Radio Swan on Swan Island, a covert black operation to win supporters for U. S. policies and discredit Fidel Castro.

So to discredit his rival, he appointed Ribbentrop head of the delegation sent to London to negotiate it.

At the Star Chamber, Gilbert Lyttelton attempted to discredit Dudley by claiming that he had abandoned his wife in London without support in order to live with Elizabeth Tomlinson, " a lewd and infamous woman, a base collier ’ s daughter.

Some Japanese correspondents in London also stated that certain exotic and entertaining ' attractions ', in the shape of sideshows organized by the entrepreneur who organized the Exhibition were vulgar, and had been calculated to bring discredit to Japan.

This was probably the beginning of the plot to discredit Picquart.

Some people claimed that, although González probably knew about the GAL, he was not brought to trial because it would further discredit Spanish political institutions.

It was only when, in July of the same year, Oates's accusation against the Queen's physician, Sir George Wakeman, appeared likely to involve the Queen herself in the ramifications of the plot, that Scroggs began to think matters were going too far ; he was probably also influenced by the discovery that the court regarded the plot with discredit and disfavour, and that the country party led by Shaftesbury had less influence than he had supposed with the King.

However such theories were most probably related to the general Soviet stance seeking to discredit religion and they were never substantiated ; there is no evidence of major Inquisition activities in Lithuania either.

The right wing took Gebrauchsmusik as a tool when the former began its ascendancy, which is probably the main reason for the latter's increased discredit and abandonment as the decade progressed, and the most important German artists and thinkers departed for more hospitable locales.

According to Xenophon, she was encouraged to breed horses and compete in the Games, by her brother Agesilaus II, in an attempt to discredit the sport.

In an effort to discredit the Resistance, the authorities invited French celebrities ( from the world of the cinema and other arts ) to attend the trial and encouraged the media to give it the widest coverage possible.

The sheer volume of firsthand testimony and primary documentation that Solzhenitsyn managed to assemble in The Gulag Archipelago made all subsequent Soviet and KGB attempts to discredit the work useless.

Meric Casaubon's 1659 edition of part of these diaries ( Cotton Appendix MS. XLVI ), entitled A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits contains notorious transcription errors which in some cases were transmitted through many subsequent republications of the Dee / Kelly material ; Casaubon's edition was intended to discredit Dee and Kelly by accusing them of dealing with the Christian Devil.

However, subsequent conflicts would largely discredit Douhet's theory.

The subsequent Jacobite rebellion of 1715 – 16, though only a minority of Tories gave their adhesion to it, was used by the Whigs to completely discredit the Tories and paint them as traitors.

It remains an active subject of debate among geologists, with subsequent evidence discovered to both support and discredit the existence of the flood, while the theory that it formed the basis for later flood myths is not proven.

Taransky's subsequent attempts to discredit Simone by having her drink, smoke and curse at public appearances and use politically incorrect statements similarly backfire, when the press instead begins to see her as refreshingly honest.

According to Loftus, the CIA had knowledge of his condition, and convinced Israel not to assassinate him and wait for his inevitable death of the disease, since the subsequent widespread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him.