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these are hard scientific facts against which there can be no reasonable refutation
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The claim seems designed to defy refutation.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
As if in refutation of the puritanical outcry over D&D in its early days, Went’s characters use the game to attempt to construct a more just moral universe.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
Karl Popper said that science is about conjecture and refutation.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The very mechanisms enabling AI to inspire collective action also equip it to reinforce entrenched refutation, deepen ideological divides and amplify narratives dismissing climate change as a mere fabrication.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
As if in refutation of the puritanical outcry over D&D in its early days, Went’s characters use the game to attempt to construct a more just moral universe.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
Karl Popper said that science is about conjecture and refutation.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The very mechanisms enabling AI to inspire collective action also equip it to reinforce entrenched refutation, deepen ideological divides and amplify narratives dismissing climate change as a mere fabrication.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Refutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/refutation. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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refutation
noun
ref·u·ta·tion
ˌref-yu̇-ˈtā-shən 
: the act or process of refuting : disproof
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