His research disproved previous perceptions of its causes.

There have been successive allegations of ransacking of the church and the estate during the Civil War but recent research disproves it.

He died, and later research disproved the idea that HIV had come from a medical accident.

More recent research has disproved these claims.

Later research showed their first hypothesis to be unlikely, but did not disprove their second hypothesis.

Later research by Crombie and Crombie (1975) entirely disproves this theory.

This research also excludes, but does not disprove, the claims that the lions were not eating the victims they killed but merely killing just to kill.

The research done under his guidance disproved the idea that the animal understood language.

But further research disproved the finding.

Further research disproved the theory.