In years since, this hypothesis has been thoroughly discredited.

Primitive promiscuity ( or original promiscuity ), was the ( largely discredited ) 19th-century hypothesis that humans originally lived in a state of promiscuity or " hetaerism " prior to the advent of society as we understand it.

The Younger Dryas impact event is a discredited hypothesis that an air burst from a purported comet above or even into the Laurentide Ice Sheet north of the Great Lakes set all of the North American continent ablaze around 12, 900 years ago.

The hypothesis survived into the 20th century and was notably advanced in the context of feminism and especially second wave feminism, but this hypothesis of matriarchy as having been an early stage of human development is mostly discredited today, most experts saying that it never existed.

None of the original features supporting our hypothesis for ALH84001 has either been discredited or has been positively ascribed to non-biologic explanations.

The earlier hypothesis was discredited in the 1960s and 1970s.

This hypothesis has been discredited by physical anthropologists, physiologists, and the original proponent of the idea himself.

To date, none of the original lines of scientific evidence for the hypothesis that the biomorphs are of exobiological origin ( the so-called biogenic hypothesis ) have been either discredited or positively ascribed to non-biological explanations.

Although ETH, as a unified and named hypothesis, is a comparatively new concept-one which owes a lot to the saucer sightings of the 1940s – 1960s, it can trace its origins back to a number of earlier events such as the now discredited Martian canals and ancient Martian civilization promoted by astronomer Percival Lowell, popular culture including the writings of H. G. Wells and fellow science fiction pioneers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, who likewise wrote of Martian civilizations, and even to the works of figures such as the Swedish philosopher, mystic and scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, who promoted a variety of unconventional views that linked other worlds to the afterlife.

The largely discredited Younger Dryas impact hypothesis suggests that one or more bolide impacts caused the mass extinction and triggered a period of climatic cooling.

The Ural – Altaic linguistic hypothesis, now discredited, inspired the emergence of Turkish, Hungarian, Japanese and Korean branches of the Turanian Society in the 1920s and 1930s.

Though still defended by Michael Cooper in 1981, the hypothesis that such creatures existed has now been totally discredited.

The name Gomer ( as in the pen-name of 19th century editor and author Joseph Harris, for instance ) and its ( modern ) Welsh derivatives, such as Gomeraeg ( as an alternative name for the Welsh language ) became fashionable for a time in Wales, but the Gomerian theory itself has long since been discredited as an antiquarian hypothesis with no historical or linguistic validity.

One interpretation of sperm polymorphism is the " kamikaze sperm " hypothesis ( Baker and Bellis, 1988 ), which has been widely discredited in humans.

This hypothesis has largely been discredited by experiments conducted on submerged oxygen-permeable silicone tubes that show that cellulose grows well submerged if enough oxygen is present.

# That such a position relies upon a discredited ontological argument that posits the foundational status of the community or state.

The Sunday Times during this period promoted a fringe and later discredited argument that, in Africa, AIDS was a quite separate condition from HIV.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

Others have discredited the theory about the Galilean Tekoa, citing that the difference in elevation between the two locations is not significant.

* Georgian: Linking Basque to Kartvelian languages is now widely discredited.

It is undisputed that, by 1900, Cantor was aware of some of the paradoxes and did not believe that they discredited his theory.

" A third, proposed in 1895 by Eiríkr Magnússon, but since discredited, is that it derives from the Icelandic place name Oddi, site of the church and school where students, including Snorri Sturluson, were educated.

This conjecture, however, is discredited by the Oxford English Dictionary.

While this theory depends on Bernoulli's principle, the fact that this theory has been discredited does not imply that Bernoulli's principle is incorrect.

Whilst this theory is today widely disputed and discredited by historians like Norman Cohn, Keith Thomas and Ronald Hutton, it has had a significant effect in the origins of Neopagan religions, primarily Wicca, a faith she supported.

Although Haeckel's specific form of recapitulation theory is now discredited among biologists, it had a strong influence on social and educational theories of the late 19th century.

Though popular, and useful, modern colour science has discredited the view that any colour is identical with any single wavelength.

However, the typological model in anthropology is now thoroughly discredited, and current mainstream thinking is that the morphological traits are due to simple variations in specific regions, and are the effect of climatic selective pressures.

Likewise this typological approach to race is generally regarded as discredited by biologists and anthropologists.

" Daily Telegraph columnist Jasper Rees, likening the changes in explorers ' reputations to climatic variations, suggests that " in the current Antarctic weather report, Scott is enjoying his first spell in the sun for twenty-five years ". The New York Times Book Review was more critical, pointing out Crane's support for Scott's discredited claims regarding the circumstances of the freeing of the Discovery from the pack ice, and concluded " For all the many attractions of his book, David Crane offers no answers that convincingly exonerate Scott from a significant share of responsibility for his own demise.

Most mental health professionals consider reparative therapy discredited, but it is still practiced by some.

After Carloman's resignation in 747 he maintained a sometimes turbulent relationship with the king of the Franks, Pepin ; the claim that he would have crowned Pepin at Soissons in 751 is now generally discredited.

However, the subsequent discovery of the Kuiper belt, and in particular of the object, which is larger than Pluto yet does not fit Bode's law, have further discredited the formula.

Nonetheless, much of his research is widely discredited by professionals in the field.

However, Memmius ' name is central to several critical verses in the poem, and this theory has therefore been largely discredited.

He was born in Kraków, the son of a German immigrant town-clerk, but the view, once generally held, that he was descended from the Pomeranian noble family of Kraków, is now discredited ( cf.

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation ; That until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes ; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race ; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained ; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed ; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will ; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven ; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.

OED also claims that the theory is that it comes from the Czech word půlka (" half "), referring to the short half-steps featuring in the dance, is now " discredited ".

Since that time, Lovejoy ’ s formulation of “ unit-ideas ” has been discredited and replaced by more nuanced and more historically sensitive accounts of intellectual activity, and this shift is reflected in the replacement of the phrase history of ideas by intellectual history.

Richard Cameron Wilson, in an article in New Statesman, wrote that some advocates of discredited intellectual positions such as AIDS denial and Holocaust denial engage in pseudoskeptical behavior when they characterize themselves as " skeptics " despite cherry picking evidence that conforms to a pre-existing belief.

The deodorant firm run by Pesce has offices in the headquarters of Glimco's discredited taxi drivers' union at 1213-15 Blue Island Av..

We are left helpless to cope with it because we do not dare speak of it as anything real for fear that to do so would imply a commitment to that which has already been discredited and proved false.

Other scientists who have shown varying degrees of interest in the legend are anthropologist David Daegling, field biologist George Shaller, Russell Mittermeier, Daris Swindler, Esteban Sarmiento, and discredited racial anthropologist Carleton S. Coon.

The organisers, " Insight ", claimed that there were 30, 000 marchers ; Lord Widgery, in his now discredited tribunal, said that there were only 3, 000 to 5, 000.

However, this model of constitutional monarchy was discredited and abolished following Germany's defeat in the First World War.

This eventually discredited the Italian monarchy and led to its abolition in 1946.

" Unfortunately for his memory the theologians whose advice he took were ultimately discredited and the malcontents whom he pressed to conform emerged victorious ," writes the historian A. H. M.

The idea that the German king could and should name the pope was increasingly discredited and viewed as an anachronism from a by-gone era.

The belief after the Concordat was that investiture and the era of theocratic kingship was a discredited doctrine.

The 1994 Britannica was faulted for publishing an inflammatory story about Charles Drew that had long been discredited.

This legend also has many other flaws ( it claims that Jingū was flown into the middle of the promised land and then conquered into Japan ) which have largely discredited the story among historians.

The relationships have discredited Singer's research among members of the scientific community, according to Scheuering.

The interpretation of the Overton and Meyer finding has been challenged and discredited.

In addition, a discredited bolide impact over North America which was hypothesized to have triggered the Younger Dryas.

However, the belief that the Saxons simply wiped or drove out all the native Britons from England has been widely discredited by a number of archaeologists since the 2000s, and the likelihood of that model being severely questioned.

By early 1945, the communists had liquidated, discredited, or driven into exile most of the country's interwar elite.