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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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I want my profession to be seen as role models who lead by example rather than canard, fear or false promises.
Brief, chatty and digestible, the book should refute the old canard that economics is dismal.
But he scoffed at the occasional canard that he favoured players of his own religion.
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.
It is a classic anti-semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them.

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