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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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Telling the New Zealand public that Maori have unlimited tangi leave is a canard.
But he scoffed at the occasional canard that he favoured players of his own religion.
The conservative talk jocks have been purveying this canard to explain their monopoly of the spectrum.
Dembski justifies his Scriptura sub scientia approach by raising the tired old canard about geocentrism.
Brief, chatty and digestible, the book should refute the old canard that economics is dismal.
The briefest glance at David's productivity and output during his tenure there ought to put the quietus on that canard.

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