I just wanted to debunk the legend.
Yet despite a century of debunking, the legend endures.
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.
It debunks the urban legend that it is the collagen or fat melting.
However, author and historian Sharada Dwivedi debunks this legend.
The legend was promptly debunked by a local newspaper, The Bakersfield Californian, which quoted the area's Budweiser distributor denying the incident happened.
Mr. Henderson is the author of a book called "Ball, Bat and Bishop," in which he authoratively debunks the Cooperstown-Abner Double-day legend of the beginning of baseball.
Now, archaeologists have systematically debunked these legends, exposing some as a deliberate scam, The Guardian reports.
The episode leads with Doctor's attempt at debunking the existence of Robin Hood, despite Clara's earnest faith in the legend and the pair's subsequent encounter with Robin and his Merry Men.
Secrest debunks a legend, in Behrman, that Joel's mother, a blacksmith's wife and a collector of inexpensive delftware, had launched his career by sending the lad to peddle the blue-and-white ceramics in England, where they promptly became fashionable and lucrative: Joel did start poor in England, but with ample business connections; and his mother may not have collected anything.
