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are debunked
verb
To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.
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It doesn't seem to matter how often and effectively the stories are debunked: they keep on coming.
V.S. Naipaul's recent comments about female authors that they can never be his equal because of their "sentimentality, and narrow view of the world"—are debunked here.
Perhaps that is why — on both sides of the argument — some myths stubbornly persist no matter how often they are debunked while other indubitable facts continually fail to gain traction.
"What we've seen every time is that these claims are debunked when you actually give workers and businesses the tools and the incentives they need to innovate," Obama said.
Yet suddenly, as other orthodoxies are debunked and the government itself faces ejection, the consensus for war seems to be breaking too.In this section Angels and demons No farewell to arms Bang to rights The chancellor's eyebrows Top-up teaching Unintended consequences Ready for his close-up?
Here five myths about Mexico, that have a direct impact on American foreign policy, are debunked.
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