Finding Untruth.

I would like to know if there is a body of work on useless words or words that obscure the truth. For example: epicycle is nonsense now since the Ptolemaic model is defunct any article that takes them seriously is I hope historical. Or take the case of ulcers, today we know that H. pylori  bacteria are their cause. Therefore, one could manually select the phrases associated with the cause of ulcers before 1983 like "type A personality", "stress related", multifactorial etc. and consider them as anti-keywords. if you searched using anti-keywords could you find present day theories that might themselves be questionable. Is there a syntax for false or incorrect scientific theories? Could anti-keywords be used to tag articles and concepts and even give a score as to how likely they are to being correct or false. Could we design algorithms or agents to scan Science for us?

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