My discredited theory, however, is still alive and well.
Benevolence is a faculty in the discredited theory of Phrenology.
"That's generally held to be a discredited theory."
"It is not that the leaders are cruel men, but the effect of paternalism and discredited economic theory is the same."
Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare?
That's the discredited soak-the-rich theory, forgetting all the lessons of the 80's.
The Administration desperately clings to the discredited theory that "Washington knows best."
Mr. Sheppard even briefly raises a discredited theory that his mother was killed by a lover of her own.
Association theory is a discredited theory which tried to explain molecular structures of macromolecules.
An ancient, discredited theory is that light is generated in the eye.