Sentence examples for debunk legends from inspiring English sources

She is traveling widely to determine which manufacturers in the northern states and France shipped to Louisiana customers, and trying to debunk legends that misattribute antiques made elsewhere to New Orleans artisans.

8 P.M. (Discovery) MYTHBUSTERS: MEGA MOVIE MYTHS Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage and their crew spend two hours debunking legends of the silver screen.

Thanks to excellent Snopes.com, which serves to debunk urban legends, we now know Kathleen Robertson, her unruly toddler and the other characters pressing their frivolous claims before gullible juries were in fact fictional creations.

I just wanted to debunk the legend.

Mikkelson owns and runs Snopes.com, a hugely popular fact-checking site which debunks urban legends, old wives' tales, fake news, shoddy journalism and political spin.

Still, David P. Mikkelson, who debunks urban legends at Snopes.com, said he continues to receive e-mail from a few who say that the design and tone of the site suggest government support.

It has inspired music videos and an independent film based on the Web television series "The Angry Video Game Nerd," whose main character, traumatized by the E.T. game, sets out to debunk the legend of the landfill, hoping to save young generations of gamers from the trauma of playing it.

Now, archaeologists have systematically debunked these legends, exposing some as a deliberate scam, The Guardian reports.

Snopes, a website that debunks urban legends, took a look at the reported Facebook eavesdropping controversy last year.

Yet despite a century of debunking, the legend ­endures.

Julius Caesar was a South African favourite from long before Mandela selected lines from it in the Robben Island copy of the Complete Works – though Dickson debunks the legend that the volume had to be smuggled into the prison.