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What is a canard?

What is a canard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
  2. (aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
  3. (transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
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Tan seems not to realize that this old canard about the Inuit having 32 different words for snow, or whatever the number, is pure myth.
Dembski justifies his Scriptura sub scientia approach by raising the tired old canard about geocentrism.
Telling the New Zealand public that Maori have unlimited tangi leave is a canard.
I want my profession to be seen as role models who lead by example rather than canard, fear or false promises.
As for the old canard that Europe's bloodiest wars were the wars of religion, no serious student of the carnage of the twentieth century can credit that.
It is a classic anti-semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them.

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