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Recent Examples of counterevidence
Ranalli points out that indoctrination is when someone preemptively dismisses any counterevidence that may come along.
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Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
Other scientists point to a mountain of counterevidence showing that facial movements during emotions vary too widely to be universal beacons of emotional meaning.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett,
Scientific American,
27 Apr. 2022
Archaeological and geological counterevidence concerning Oak Island and the Money Pit point to something well short of an Indiana Jones movie.
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Dylan Taylor-Lehman,
Popular Mechanics,
13 May 2021
Even the consensus may get scrapped and rewritten if sufficient, credible counterevidence turns up.
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Gemma Tarlach,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2018
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
Other scientists point to a mountain of counterevidence showing that facial movements during emotions vary too widely to be universal beacons of emotional meaning.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett,
Scientific American,
27 Apr. 2022
Archaeological and geological counterevidence concerning Oak Island and the Money Pit point to something well short of an Indiana Jones movie.
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Dylan Taylor-Lehman,
Popular Mechanics,
13 May 2021
Even the consensus may get scrapped and rewritten if sufficient, credible counterevidence turns up.
—
Gemma Tarlach,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterevidence
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The counterargument is that AMD has included TSME in its consumer Ryzen CPUs for about a decade.
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The macro backdrop isn't offering much of a counterargument.
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Since Socrates, dialectical thinking had been a method of eliciting truth through questioning and refutation.
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That is not a refutation of any of those disruption stories individually.
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The filing, submitted Wednesday in Cabarrus Superior Court and first reported by The Cabarrus Compass, is the county’s first formal rebuttal to Newton’s lawsuit seeking severance after he was fired just five months into the job.
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The rebuttal will be that any form of AI could or should be seen as theft and is a slippery slope toward taking away people’s jobs.
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“Counterevidence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterevidence. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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