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"counter myth" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to an argument, perspective, or story that refutes a commonly accepted myth. For example: Edward Snowden's whistleblowing offered a counter myth to the popular belief that government surveillance does not infringe upon citizens' rights.
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Unfortunately, these tendencies frequently undermine well-intentioned efforts to counter myths and misperceptions.
The pamphlet highlights nine facts to help counter myths and misconceptions about HIV and AIDS and combat stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV, particularly in schools.
It is also the basis on which to design effective messages that counter myths and misperceptions, enhance public understanding, and attain public support for needed policy and practice changes.
That particular counter-myth had an element of possibility.
The overlapping legends of 22 November 1963 permit the teasing interplay of myth and counter-myth.
Strangely the myth of the feral child coexists with the powerful counter-myth of the innocent child who is incapable of lying or wrong-doing.
In 1990, Kevin Costner's "Dances With Wolves" supplied another counter-myth, based on political correctness and historical inaccuracy, that was fatal for the traditional western.
The very familiarity of myth and counter-myth has made it possible for writers and film-makers to experiment with surprising permutations on the assassination theme.
It risks replacing the Green Lantern Theory with a counter-myth — you might call it the Great and Powerful Oz Theory, in which the man behind those curtains in the Oval Office is meeker than anyone knew.
In 1969, Samuel Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" allegorically inscribed the failure of America's anti-Communist mission in Vietnam, and in so doing proposed a counter-myth to the western's myth of righteous progressivism from which the genre has never recovered.
But even as I tried to discredit the publicity that saw Thatcherism as liberating, I was still reluctant to propose a counter-myth, which pictured the government of 1945 as a permanent model of perfection.
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