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Comment author: knb 03 November 2015 06:13:26AM 0 points [-]

Richard Bandler hasn't demonstrated even a single verifiable, undisputable result with his methods, and he's been fabricating things like this for decades?

I think homeopaths and faith-healers could probably dredge up a few convincing-seeming anecdotes as well.

If there are no claims to any of the above, what exactly was discredited?

The wikipedia article you linked to presents numerous meta-analyses in support of the claim that NLP is a pseudoscience. If you want to know what they think they've discredited, read them.