NEW DELHI — The police on Wednesday detained a member of Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing Hindu organization, in the killing last week of an activist who often debunked village mystics and had campaigned for a law banning "black magic".
On Tuesday, when it was announced that the long rumored and often debunked Episode VII, VIII and IX would finally be produced, I didn't really care.
Dr. Chalker-Scott, 55, often debunks quack gardening advice on a blog called "The Garden Professors," co-hosted by her extension service at Washington State University.
Before the show aired, Bruce Chassy, a noted molecular biologist, wrote to Oz; he is a founder of Academics Review, a group of researchers who often debunk popular scientific claims.
The theory has been debunked often, but it remains attractive to some who find themselves lifted above others.
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.
Stories saying the 1 in 5 statistic has been debunked often also mention that that figure is fueling a movement to address campus sexual assault.
The urban myth that Washington was built on a swamp has been debunked more often than the rumor that James Franco had sex with Lindsay Lohan, but that doesn't mean that it's not humid as shit during the summer.
However, their own research, which is often pegged as "debunking" microfinance, more accurately shows that its benefits are more modest (and less uniform microfinance doesn't work for everyone) than some suppose but not non-existent.
Self-styled rationalists often seek to debunk the influence of mind over body: it seems too damned weird that, for example, women who believe they're at risk from heart disease are 3.6 times more likely to die from heart attacks than those with identical risk factors, but who lack the belief.
The Craft students, whilst perhaps initially at some advantage due to being on their own art school 'territory', quickly displayed a respect and interest in the act of drawing collaboratively with the Medicine students, with the latter often quick to debunk or satirize any associations of privilege and power with Medicine.
