A would-be debunking on the Cancer Research UK website was quickly followed by a debunking of the debunking.
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The mainstream press will be a step behind in debunking — and even the act of debunking will serve to amplify the lies.
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Debunking images that spread during breaking news events is celebrated as important journalistic work, while debunking pictures that are "fun" and old is deemed a drag.
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What would science look like if our attention to debunking modern strands of eugenics intersected with debunking white, heteronormative, and cis-privileged notions of gender binaries and constructs?
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There's nothing holding Shawn Mendes back from debunking relationship rumors.
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And that's the way the debunking team here at BuzzFeedNews.
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The original image even has its own debunking on Snopes.
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" On local historians debunking his plaque: "How would they know?
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Some people are good at the debunking in real time.
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And then we'd put the URL to our own debunking.
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In an interview with GQ, Tyler is debunking that myth.
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For a fuller debunking, read this article by German Lopez.
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I'm glad you say it's not only a debunking show, because I think some of the problems we have around the wellness space is people take on that debunking role and it's always critical.
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The real Harley Davidson statement debunking the quote has 750 retweets.
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They have a mildly snarky page dedicated to debunking this hoax.
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Ahead, we're debunking five of the worst excuses for not traveling.
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Lead Stories specializes in hoax debunking as well as fact-checking.
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Are we closer to confirming that or closer to debunking it?
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Captain Disillusion is a YouTuber best known for debunking viral hoaxes.
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These people were quick to retweet and impervious to debunking information.
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On March 12th, Verificado 18 published an explainer debunking the video.
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But the power of satire goes beyond effectively debunking specific falsehoods.
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The sonic weapon theory has received its share of debunking elsewhere.
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The CDC even has a page devoted to debunking the myth.
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Debunking is complicated (though not as ineffective as the lore suggests).
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He's made a career of debunking "magical acts" on Indonesian television.
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Our science section is debunking common misconceptions about health and science.
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The second debunking is a Times Op-Ed by Thomas Edsall.
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And now, apparently, debunking nonsense tweets from the next American president.
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There is plenty of research debunking video games as the cause.
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Debunking plainly false statements is only part of the challenge, however.
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The Washington Post eventually published a careful debunking of Everytown's figures.
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Self-debunking is apparently now a thing, but hey, that's science.
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The press then fails painfully when it comes to debunking industry misdirection.
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Twitter, Facebook and other platforms provide an excellent outlet for debunking lies.
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Debunking stories related to the conflict is now the team's only priority.
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Today we're going to be actually talking about debunking myths with babies.
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In his blog Marginal Revolution he relishes debunking junk economics with data.
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Silverman even talked with me once about Gizmodo's debunking of viral photos.
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Immediately upon his announcement, the internet stirred into full-on Debunking Mode.
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But there are many caveats and some experts are debunking the study.
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First, Kuo is rarely wrong, and second, he's actually debunking previous rumors.
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Historians, God bless them, they do a lot of debunking of legends.
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Unfortunately, the media have reported their distortions without adequate analysis or debunking.
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ID: You know, this is something that we see on our debunking team.
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Schenk is a cofounder of Lead Stories, a website dedicated to debunking hoaxes.
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BuzzFeed News will be updating this list of incorrect information and debunking falsehoods.
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More media organizations than ever before are engaged in fact-checking and debunking.
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As Teddy Roosevelt once said, "Debunking fake quotes on the internet transcends politics."
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Simpson's testimony is significant in the present context primarily for debunking that narrative.
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Along with Ex Machina, Westworld is an effective debunking of the Pygmalion myth.
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The daily lesson on debunking fake news is from the textbook on verification.
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But confirming or debunking those expectations is why we do reviews, after all.
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The thing is, it isn't a blank page — it's actually the debunking section!
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Then, in 2004, it published an article debunking some of those flawed studies.
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The hoax gets 50,000 shares, and the debunking an hour later gets 200.
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Recently, though, I've been asking myself what impact all this debunking is having.
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"Most of the proposals are related to debunking and fact checking," says Quattrociocchi.
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Instead of debating pertinent issues, the conversation as shifted to debunking conspiracy theories.
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But some of those theories get enough traction that they are worth debunking.
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He was featuring more science on the show, and even debunking medical myths.
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Comme souvent, le debunking se heurte au terrible phénomène de la chambre d'écho.
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And these badass truth-tellers quickly got to work debunking our biggest subterranean legends.
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His stock-in-trade was debunking gloomy stereotypes about poor countries and economic development.
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Stephan Lewandowsky: The Debunking Handbook — that's been downloaded at least half a million times.
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" But according to Snopes — the urban-legend debunking site — the claim is "completely unsubstantiated.
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You can find research supporting and debunking these links and little agreement among researchers.
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It then transitions to a debunking of myths frequently pushed by people like them.
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The pizza incident is crucial in debunking the idea that the photo is staged.
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One is an attack debunking the real estate mogul's claims to be a populist.
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This is much easier, and perhaps more rhetorically effective, than debunking climate science itself.
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I believe that debunking pieces are generally valuable, at least in the right hands.
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Below, a Related Articles box shows "Fact-Checker"-labeled stories debunking the original link.
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All they had to do was train people and do some very public debunking.
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Many of the videos are predicated around hygiene and debunking myths about the disease.
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Ms. d'Entremont specializes in debunking myths around homeopathy, pet wellness, G.M.O.s and other trends.
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The debunking became official later, as Apple failed to mention the feature in Cupertino.
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Ms. Thorson was particularly skeptical of articles that focused purely on debunking false information.
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Now, read the article, "Debunking Myths About Estrangement," and answer the following questions: 1.
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It can be impossible to know where or when the debunking should even begin.
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A couple of current shows ease this tension between illusion and reality, debunking themselves.
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Smith often drew praise and criticism for debunking unsupported assertions made by the administration.
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That means debunking falsehoods, and being transparent with readers about our process of reporting.
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Democrats praised the new document for debunking claims laid out in the GOP memo.
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Wall Street's first analyst to cover bitcoin is debunking a popular bitcoin investment strategy.
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At this point, a search on Facebook turns up more debunking stories than anything else.
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Her meme, though, has an express purpose: The newly married star is debunking pregnancy rumors.
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In honor of Valentine's Day, we're spending the week debunking myths and lies about romance.
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But debunking Trump's climate change statements is as productive as arguing with a brick wall.
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Susannah Locke: How has psychology's understanding of debunking shifted since you first started studying it?
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The new birthers: Debunking the Hillary Clinton health conspiracy Further down the ballot, Republican Sen.
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But for decades, they've been patiently debunking wild theory after wild theory about the manuscript.
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There's more evidence debunking the conspiracy theory that your iPhone is secretly listening to you.
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It's just the same ol' steady stream of YouTube videos focusing on debunking the landing.
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The Gluten Lie, by Alan Levinovitz – debunking some of our most stubbornly popular food myths .
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If we're to take her words at face value, she was simply debunking misleading photos.
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Yes, it's cinematic — "suspiciously cinematic," the writer Benjamin Radford warns, while thoroughly debunking the story.
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He is the co-author of Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business.
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A spokesman pointed CNN to a tweet from the New York Times debunking the video.
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Sometimes a photo comes along that's so dumb that I wonder if it's worth debunking.
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Now she's an advocate for debunking the wellness myths she fell for on social media.link
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His reaction to the debunking of the "collusion" myth was to continue pretending nothing happened.
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He compared it to the debunking of viral images BuzzFeed had done during Hurricane Sandy.
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Economists have spent centuries studying trade, debunking common myths and arriving at some surprising truths.
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Snopes, the debunking website, rated that characterization of him as false in a 2001 article.
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Giving them oxygen, even while debunking them, can nevertheless allow them to grow, he warned.
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The Verge published an official statement from a Nintendo rep on Saturday debunking the deal.
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How successful was Mr. Zozaya's first science video, debunking the idea that vaccines cause autism?
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Debunking the myth that these conflicts are eternal and immutable is a critical first step.
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The officials rushed out statements debunking the sterilization rumors but could not match Facebook's influence.
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" Those headlines could be described by many words, but none of them would be "debunking.
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The debunking of a fake news story is seldom as powerful as the story itself.
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Do not post information you know to be fake, even if you are debunking it.
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You might accidentally capture the content of someone who is mocking ISIS, or debunking ISIS.
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One of the site's greatest contributions, however, is debunking myths and tackling stigma surrounding Syrian refugees.
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And debunking stories, even from respected organizations, seldom have the reach of the original false post.
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He's been dealing with Crowder since 2017, when the YouTube creator first started "debunking" Strikethrough episodes.
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Swedish media have also taken to debunking the film, though Fox itself stands by the story.
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Readers may wonder whether 700 pages of debunking—some of them a slog—are worth it.
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It's unfortunate that this agency's energy and resources needed to be spent debunking this implausible claim.
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The story got popular enough that on Wednesday, the anti-hoax site Snopes recirculated its debunking.
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"True skepticism doesn't equate into reflexive debunking, but an honest inquiry into the data," Dolan stated.
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Now she&aposs an advocate for debunking the wellness myths she fell for on social media.
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This dynamic isn't just bad because it clogs up our feeds with nonsense, and necessitates debunking.
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Debunking Gender Pay-Gap Myths Some people deny the existence of a pay gap at all.
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The managers showed clips of Mr. Wray, Mr. Bossert and Dr. Hill all debunking the theory.
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But Barr could find himself in the awkward position of debunking his boss's favorite conspiracy theory.
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After a wave of studies debunking the study, it was retracted by The Lancet in 2010.
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Since I started working at Vox, Steven Crowder has been making video after video "debunking" Strikethrough.
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While much of the emphasis of the essays is, understandably, on debunking, we live in crazy times.
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Schenk showed CNN that after his debunking was published on June 3, the video's popularity dissipated somewhat.
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When it comes to debunking the myth of the new white, we cannot and must not wait.
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BuzzFeed News is tracking and debunking the dubious rumors, memes, and falsehoods related to the midterm elections.
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At the same time, the hoaxes have become so widespread that some groups are preemptively debunking them.
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But debunking the "back-alley" myth doesn't mean the criminal era was not profoundly harmful to women.
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This is where our attention needs to turn; starting with debunking the myth that disasters are natural.
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The researchers chalked up the time gap to the legwork it takes to do a thorough debunking.
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While truly skilled in the art of debunking, he has a blind spot on his personal life.
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Since their resources are limited, are they focused on debunking the right stories in the first place?
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My days off are spent dispassionately debunking myths about this virus with my family and close friends.
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Before we get to debunking, let's note who is spreading rumors about the origins of the virus.
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Health workers are also debunking rumors, calming fears and bracing for the expected emergence of new cases.
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One gynecologist, Dr. Jen Gunter, even made a name for herself debunking the various claims on Goop.
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Kim's flower-crowned forensic debunking of that marble table has already been retweeted more than 27,000 times.
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Some reports described officers racing from casino to casino while debunking reports of multiple shooters and bomb threats.
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Did you see the tweets supposedly "debunking" the huge fires that were burning during the protests in Paris?
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Another reason why copycat hoaxes work is that debunking takes time, while copying and pasting a story doesn't.
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On Refinery29 we've written countless stories debunking a celebrity's whacky health advice — because so often they are wrong.
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Meghan Markle spent her Christmas holiday with the royal family — quietly debunking some persistent rumors in the process.
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At the top of the search results page, the user receives a prompt with information debunking the claim.
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But even then, people in the comments were debunking it for what it really was—a movie prop.
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At the end of 2015, the Washington Post ceased to run a column addressing and debunking internet hoaxes.
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Dr. Jen Gunter, a San Francisco gynecologist and obstetrician, has written 30 blog posts debunking many Goop claims.
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This morning, The Times's publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. sent a note to the staff debunking the piece.
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This could help reduce local support for Iran, potentially debunking exaggerated Iranian claims and deterring further destabilizing action.
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The modern anti-vaccination movement has persisted despite research debunking the myth that vaccines are linked to autism.
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A good science reporter can organize a more thorough debunking than journals can, in at least some cases.
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The New Health Care You may have read or heard about the study debunking the five-second rule.
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Policy wonks have spent years debunking the myth that economic growth and fossil fuel pollution march in lockstep.
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I think you raised two really important points there, the first one about the debunking aspect of it.
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When debunking information, it's also useful to get the audience in a skeptical mind-set, the authors argue.
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US Army Recruiting Command, which does not initiate or manage drafts, issued a statement debunking the false texts.
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Debunking it is still useful, of course, but there's a cost to dignifying it in the first place.
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Still there's one essential story these shows are helpfully debunking, the one about new mothers having it all.
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But other outlets, including GQ and New York Magazine, embedded the video in posts that were debunking it.
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We did similar round-ups in 2124, 21100, 211968, and 215, and have been debunking fake news for years.
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"We definitely hope that our research contributes to debunking this," lead author Myriam Bechtoldt told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Twitter remains steadfast in its decision not to remove Jones, however, instead holding journalists accountable for debunking his content.
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The traditional media has been ill equipped so far in debunking the fake stories as they spread, Cruz said.
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It was a clear, obvious debunking of one of Trump's favorite talking points, aired live, from Mueller's own lips.
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She tells Broadly that's when she decided to focus on debunking myths about the increasingly popular yet misunderstood plant.
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"It's unfortunate that this agency's energy and resources needed to be spent debunking this implausible claim," Rosenworcel's statement continued.
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But there is little independent research on their success in debunking fake news or prevent people from sharing it.
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As the above video shows, debunking astronaut ice cream doesn't have to kill the fun of eating space food.
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Others have taken this study as evidence debunking the idea that counting calories is the key to weight loss.
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But Dr. Larson and others took the story for granted, and the debunking started out as something else entirely.
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And Mencken knew that people cling to the truth years before psychological research found that debunking myths can backfire.
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"Basically, what we do is, we go around, and we do videos debunking claims of stuff," the reporter said.
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But the debunking did not squash the conspiracy theories about Comet Ping Pong — instead, it led to the opposite.
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"As the internet has grown, it's become increasingly segregated and debunking false information is more difficult," jokes_on_you told me.
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Instead, he devotes himself to other pet causes, including one cherished by MRAs the world over—debunking rape statistics.
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I was very surprised to hear this, as I thought I'd be debunking terrifying teen trends—not confirming them.
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At the time, Facebook added a few disclaimers directing users to resources debunking the clip, but refused to remove it.
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See here for how climate change threatens what we love, here for denial debunking, and here for climate science 101.
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Doing that not only means debunking Indian hoaxes but also doing it on the very platform where they originate: WhatsApp.
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Peter Joseph's 2007 film included a section about 9/11, but began with a kind of debunking of organized religion.
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Debunking all of this, though, would have taken up considerable time, and so most of it was allowed to stand.
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How magicians would use the act of debunking fraudulent spiritualists as a platform for promoting their own brands of entertainment.
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After they investigate the article's claims, they can mark it as disputed and link to their own article debunking it.
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He says debunking itself has become a bit of a meme, with people using it to prove their cleverness online.
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Debunking this stuff, no matter how gently, can easily get a reaction like that from taking away a child's candy.
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But we're also debunking the stigma that small gifts (commonly referred to as stocking stuffers) don't pack a meaningful punch.
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And it would either lose market share (thus debunking the basic antitrust concern) or be vulnerable to traditional antitrust complaints.
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Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person.
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Healthers: Debunking the Clinton health conspiracies Neither the Clinton campaign nor Gohmert's office immediately responded to CNN request for comment.
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One of America's leading conservative thinkers, the German refugee Eric Voegelin, wrote a pioneering debunking of scientific racism in 19643.
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Nor did an extraordinary indictment by National Review, which devoted most of an issue to debunking Trump's conservative bona fides.
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Instead, the American people witnessed a thorough debunking of the mainstream media's false reporting and the Democrats' anti-Trump hysteria.
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But then, that evening, riding on a wave of smugness from my google-debunking,I started to feel like shit.
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Debunking something like this is hardly necessary: Living without food, or at least calories, is called "starving," and it's fatal.
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But there are 10 percent of people who genuinely believe it's something that needs 'proving' or 'debunking' from both sides.
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I spend long days at state capitols, often debunking false narratives that the opposition has drummed up around this topic.
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However, despite the debunking of Astrology as a significant amount of Americans believe that Astrology is a type of science.
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Bergstrom says his debunking of the post and intervention on the Seattle ICU thread have triggered waves of online abuse.
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And Glover, who makes music under the name Childish Gambino, is taking part in the debunking of his own theory.
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Debunking the slush-fund ledger could also help build the case for a pardon of Mr. Manafort, Mr. Giuliani said.
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In the paper, which was based on city survey data, they came close to debunking the very idea of gentrification.
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Launched in 1994, Snopes is the internet's most thorough and reliable site dedicated to debunking hoaxes, myths, and fake news.
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There are many, many Paleo diets," said archeological geneticist Christina Warinner, PhD, in her 2013 TEDx talk, "Debunking the Paleo Diet.
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One beauty brand is debunking the myth that women need to remove all their body hair to look and feel beautiful.
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Because each image is unique, it can't be traced to a source with a reverse image search for an easy debunking.
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But, like much of the fearmongering out there, it's worth doing some basic debunking before you share this nugget of doom.
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Even the hashtag #gamefreaklied is filled with people decrying (and sometimes debunking) the intent and claims made by the original posters.
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Emboldened by her new found faith, Spence-Adofo decided to shoot Ancestral Voices, a documentary debunking the myths surrounding African spirituality.
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"It'll be difficult to rein this in again," tweeted Karolin Schwarz, founder of Hoaxmap, a German website dedicated to debunking hoaxes.
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But, like much of the fearmongering out there, it's worth doing some basic debunking before you share this nugget of doom.
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In a previous attempt at debunking these tilapi-lies, Kevin Fitzsimmons, an aquaculture expert from the University of Arizona, told FactCheck.
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Then, read the introduction of this article debunking some of the rhetoric about "illegal" or "undocumented" immigrants in the United States.
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In addition to that, and I hope this is what makes the show somewhat unique, it's not just a debunking show.
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Often remembered for her contributions to gifted education, Hollingworth also did great work in scientifically debunking commonly held misconceptions about women.
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Republicans have ignored repeated investigations debunking their allegations and have consistently tried to tie the incident to Obama and Clinton personally.
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She's become a professional skeptic — her job is debunking bogus departure claims — with a secret: She still, achingly, wants to believe.
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Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) — also devoted some time to debunking the false claims Cipollone made about both Trump and executive privilege.
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The group is highly respected in journalistic circles here in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, for its specialty of debunking fake news.
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From there you can aim your debunking at a target, like shooting a water gun through a hole in a fence.
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But in a court filing late on Friday, the Justice Department added itself to the list of entities debunking the allegation.
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The group has also found, over the years, that CNN and MSNBC often repeat misinformation rather than debunking it, she said.
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Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has promised to put out his own report debunking notions of Russian collusion or obstruction of justice.
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These health campaigners are using some of the money in their relatively limited war chest on debunking the grocery tax message.
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Sure, they take on the classics, like debunking "spontaneous human combustion," but many of their other pages have real-world impact.
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The finale opened up as many new doors of possibility as it shut in confirming or debunking theories about the show's universe.
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They offered elaborate theories on the Omaha scene myth and had an active interest in debunking Conor Oberst's talent in the daylight.
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From fake news to misleading hyperpartisan blogs, to people making bank from cryptocurrency scams, BuzzFeed's debunking team is there to uncover it.
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A BuzzFeed News analysis showed that the debunking articles were only shared about one-quarter as much as the bogus story was.
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Another Facebook-selected group, Snopes, is more focused on debunking urban legends and bogus email forwards — sometimes, but not always, about politics.
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The way news was being delivered to the News Feed actually elevated fake news and suppressed the stuff that was debunking it.
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This caused me to think more about the role of debunking in changing people's minds, and how it can sometimes be counterproductive.
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Social media can also, Turek points out, spread a story debunking a given video as quickly as it spreads the video itself.
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Dan Kaminsky, a well-known security researcher, wrote in a post debunking Wright's alleged evidence that the whole thing is a scam.
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And at this point, a search on Twitter brings up more stories debunking these images than people asking about voting by text.
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Much of that debunking has to do with domestic growth in Hispanic demographics, the type long feared by arch-conservatives and bigots.
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The phrase serves the dual purpose of motivating the wearer and debunking the myth that plus-size girls can't be fit too.
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Wolfe mounts a grand debunking — attempting to take down not just Chomsky the linguist but, as collateral damage, Chomsky the left intellectual.
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The leading Democratic super PAC is spending up to $2500,238 per week to reach her with digital ads debunking the president's record.
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On fan forums like Reddit's Star Wars subreddits, many fans immerse themselves in spreading or debunking every new supposed leak that appears.
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Here are some of the most prominent hoaxes about coronavirus that are currently being spread across social media and resources debunking them.
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It added a dozen staff members just in time to become the go-to debunking site for an election full of venom.
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It makes sense: in college, she helped investigate faculty sexual-harassment cases; later, she made her name debunking the Duke lacrosse case.
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Although he's done his share of debunking our favorite sci-fi films, Neil deGrasse Tyson is certainly a fan of the genre.
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Many people, for example, point to the fact that Clinton would routinely travel with multiple digital devices as debunking her supposed convenience argument.
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We present the "Jason is Pluto" theory, and our best attempt at debunking it: This theory begins with the end of the film.
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You've talked about debunking the "myth" of the tiny, radical Muslim minority in a video that was criticised quite widely as being Islamophobic.
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Though the video remained relatively dormant for years, a number of debunking videos started popping up on YouTube a couple of months ago.
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Its most recent debunking provides an opportunity, however, to explore the notions of sterility and bacterial contamination that it was meant to address.
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That also means the FISA Court approved three reauthorizations after the Steele dossier became public—and the Trump team itself started debunking it.
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By explaining the psychiatrist's influences and reasoning, and debunking popular myths, Searls makes it hard to justify viewing the inkblots as fake science.
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O.K., let's start with the myth Samuelson was debunking, the claim that stock prices are the measure of the economy as a whole.
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Debunking the notion that the 272-word speech was spontaneous or at least quickly written, he reminds us of how fastidious it was.
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They're two professors from Northeastern University, and they are debunking the idea that our phones are listening to us, except when they are.
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One reading is debunking, skeptical, emphasizing the artificiality of all traditions, the extent to which all cultural narratives flatten or caricature the past.
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"None of it is even close to being true," said Greger Larson, one of the main authors of the report debunking the myth.
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The account also used Twitter's new option to hide some responses to hide a tweet from a BuzzFeed News reporter debunking the fake.
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"This clip, which has been viewed more than 89,000 times, lives alongside videos like "Debunking the Black Lives Matter Narrative" and "Toxic Femininity.
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Alan Stone, writing for the Boston Review, commended the film for debunking traditional Hollywood machismo and violence, as well as presenting cultural diversity.
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The number 22017 was considered so unlucky that in the late 213th century, a club dedicated to debunking superstitions named itself after it.
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Representative Sylvia R. Garcia, Democrat of Texas, spent nearly an hour debunking the claim, and said that, in fact, the opposite was true.
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Debunking false news articles can sometimes stoke the outrage of the believers, leading fake news purveyors to feed that appetite with more misinformation.
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He appears as a dandified debunker of the paranormal—itself a neat joke, since Murray has spent the intervening decades debunking the normal.
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Indeed, Brennan Center studies "debunking" voter fraud never even mentioned federal court cases which I litigated at the Justice Department involving voter fraud.
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"2020 is going to be bonkers in terms of debunking this information, but the business model isn't going to get better," said Green.
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In 1936, he and his assistant Nathan Rosen set out to publish a paper debunking the idea before doing the same flip-flop again.
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The work of debunking myths and influencing culture, one blog post at a time, is slow but Sekyiamah wouldn't have it any other way.
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The rest of the webpage is spent lambasting and debunking the "incorrect reporting" that has sought to tie the club to a military lineage.
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The cast of the series can't say one word without being accused of revealing spoilers or confirming fan theories or debunking potential plot lines.
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For 14 seasons, Savage, along with Jamie Hyneman, hosted MythBusters, a television show dedicated to debunking popular myths in colorful, elaborate, hands-on ways.
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Rather he said the plan is to focus efforts on accelerating collaboration and knowledge-sharing to improve detection and indeed debunking of disinformation campaigns.
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We've been debunking fake photos at Gizmodo since 21973, but in the year 26, the fakes seem to be spreading online faster than ever.
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It's pretty miraculous that this needed debunking, since many of the posts I saw, at least, had more than 26 individuals commenting on them.
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They made a number of other false accusations against various YouTubers, as well as BuzzFeed reporter Jane Lytvynenko, who had been debunking the hoaxes.
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In a poetics of "pitch" and "tar," such narrow visions of the poem simply cannot exist, and Bernstein seems to delight in debunking them.
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And another of Trump's obsessions came up this morning, as he continued the Russia conversation, this time by debunking the accuracy of the dossier.
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From Botox and fillers to nose jobs and laser hair removal, the Kardashian-Jenner clan is constantly talking about — and debunking — body augmentation rumors.
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Committed to debunking the theories of conversion therapists, Mathew uses his own experience and a controversial approach to address those who support the practice.
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McCabe further explained, in the same congressional hearing, that resources for the investigation were adequate, debunking a claim that requested budgeting had been withheld.
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The debunking function was a feature of her old website in which Rowling could turn the tables on any rumours circulating about her work.
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Apple this week debuted three new iPhones, and they're just as massive as the iPhone XS, debunking rumors about a smaller era of iPhone.
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Examples include establishing the link between smoking and lung cancer, back to sleep campaign for infants and debunking the link between vaccines and autism.
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" At worst, Jarreau says, debunking may end up serving only people who already knew the truth: "mythbusting for people who never believed the myth.
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The debunking website Science-Based Medicine concludes that electromagnetic pulse treatments like PEMF are a "quack scam" and calls them snake oil and pseudoscience.
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In 2013, 67-year-old Narendra Dabholkar, a doctor and author committed to debunking miracles and religious superstition, was shot during his morning walk.
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" Before the Republican findings were released, Democrats put out their own report, saying they were committed to debunking "many conspiracy theories about the attacks.
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Take it from Dr. Jennifer Caudle, an African American family medicine physician and on-air health expert who has also been debunking coronavirus myths.
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Whether "socialism makes it more expensive to buy a Ford Ranger XL" is a sufficient debunking of socialism, I'll leave as an open question.
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While Dr. Horváth sees value in debunking "the scientific errors of well-known artworks," not everyone believes art always needs to be scientifically accurate.
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I think Wired may have finally done something on it, and Charlie did something, basically debunking one of O'Keefe's videos a couple days ago.
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"StopFake News" has chosen public debunking, not banning, as the best defense — and has shown it can become its own form of appealing entertainment.
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Russia, though, has been such a fountain of fake news inside Ukraine that debunking factual errors in Russian propaganda became the specialty of StopFake.
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"Instead of the focus being on black outreach, for better or for worse, it's focused on debunking something that's not even plausible," he said.
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"2020 is going to be bonkers in terms of debunking this information, but the business model isn't going to get better," Green told TechCrunch.
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A Breitbart News report, for example, breezed past Mr. Comey's debunking of the wiretap as "already known," then focused on leaks to the press.
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Clavin has fun debunking an alleged romance between Hickok and Calamity Jane, who appears in a late cameo as an insufferable drunkard and braggart.
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As Phillip Bump wrote in The Washington Post in February, the debunking of Smollett's claim had gotten far more coverage than the initial claim.
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The debunking of Trump Clinton offered could thus have come across as yet more spin, not as an objective newscaster setting the facts straight.
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According to rumor-debunking website Snopes, a man was visiting the Celestine Pool when his friend's dog escaped and fell into the 200°F pool.
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But diets are hard to sustain, and it seems like diet debunking is constantly calling into question what and how much we should be eating.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom has been skewering unrealistic expectations of women (set by both men and women) and debunking sex myths for years.
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Maza posted a cut of Crowder's remarks last week: Since I started working at Vox, Steven Crowder has been making video after video "debunking" Strikethrough.
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Our agenda showcases some of the powerhouses in the space, but also plenty of smaller teams that are building and debunking fundamental technologies in mobility.
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But Asian systems are changing with the times, debunking the argument that Asian women have been elected exclusively due to dynastic rule and family inheritance.
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The task for journalists is to describe movements and activism and popular power accurately, whether that means debunking defamation or dismantling stories of its ineffectuality.
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You may also have seen people debunking this claim, because there are dozens of people who have been born with the DNA of three people.
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Right now, however, it's not completely clear whether cannabis poses cardiovascular risks, and new research has been consistently debunking old fears associated with the drug.
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It seems that people are inclined to be skeptical about everything except skepticism, and are quick to believe bunk if it is presented as debunking.
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Some research has indicated that persistent debunking, and even ridicule, can sour people on a belief, perhaps breaking it as a social force over time.
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Like many other, shall we say, "niche communities," Flat Earthers have found a home on YouTube and have created video after video "debunking" the launch.
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"It's almost funny to watch him twist himself in knots -- making arguments that only serve to prove the points he says he's debunking," said Wood.
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He described himself as a libertarian, but his passion was directed less at politicians or ideology than at debunking scientific doctrine and preaching apocalyptic prophecy.
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In the time we've been debunking Paltrow, the stories and books pointing out the absurdity and potential harms of Goop's claims have been widely read.
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But the myth that the Electoral College began as a slaveholders' instrument needs debunking — which I hope to help with in my book's revised paperback.
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"StopFake News" is no Onion-style satire, but rather positions itself as serious public service journalism, identifying fake news and debunking it on the air.
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He interviewed an anthropology professor who called the move "revolutionary," and "a serious sign of normalization" in debunking the imaginary ethnic purity of Turkish nationalism.
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He also pointed out that 47 out of 50 polls have shown him beating Donald Trump, debunking claims he would be unable to do so.
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In addition, a significant chunk of the coverage is focused on debunking conspiracy theories floated by the president and his allies in right-wing media.
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As Emil Karlsson, writing on Debunking Denialism — a site "defending science against the forces of irrationality" — explains: Why is the poisonous M&Ms analogy monstrous?
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Regardless of how you feel about the Girl Scouts, debunking their stated purpose is a really weird objective for the major subplot of a movie.
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Because of that, said Hughes, Widsom Panel can act as part of the research process, validating or debunking study results based on what its testing finds.
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The President has spent the weekend claiming victory, offering new material for his conservative cheerleaders and debunking criticism of his effort as evidence as media bias.
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Over my years of debunking fake images on social media here at Gizmodo, people often ask me, did anyone every really think that photo was real?
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Our agenda showcases some of the powerhouses in the space, but also plenty of smaller teams that are building and debunking fundamental technologies for virtual worlds.
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The rumor debunking site Snopes adds that Machado appeared in a Playboy spread but says online rumors about her appearing in pornographic films are not true.
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As The Atlantic pointed out years ago while debunking fakes from Hurricane Sandy, the original shark photo is from 2006 and can be found on Flickr.
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It focuses on the slice of ISIS' audience that is most susceptible to its messaging, and redirects them towards curated YouTube videos debunking ISIS recruiting themes.
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From STI stigma and sex education to debunking myths about the clitoris and de-centering the penis and penetration in our understandings of sex and pleasure.
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After fans mistook one of the singer's Instagram posts for a pregnancy announcement, Brandy changed all her social media bios to an official statement debunking rumors.
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"GO FOR IT," says Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis ... who's debunking the myth that bangin' before the big game can mess with your mojo.
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On Thursday, The Guardian reported the BBC was forming a debunking team to tackle false stories that often start on Facebook and other social media outlets.
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This month's confirmation hearings showed that while Franken still (mostly) avoids jokes, he hasn't lost his taste for debunking conservative misinformation—or exposing right-wing ignorance.
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Debunking claims that Elizabeth Warren is protecting a climate change hoax requires the ability to understand a scientific study, or at least the analysis of one.
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A Google search for "Trump attacks Mueller" offers a virtual encyclopedia of Trump's attacks against the special counsel and analysis from fact-checkers debunking his attacks.
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It is a reminder that while Trump's strategy of debunking provable facts can work in a political context, it could lead him into dangerous legal territory.
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One reporter, Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star, has an army of Twitter followers who regularly check in to read his rapid debunking of Trump lies.
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Debunking the myth about Mona Lisa's eyes It may feel like her gaze follows you around the room, but Mona Lisa isn't really looking at you.
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Despite the debunking, proponents of Mr. Duterte's bloody crackdown on reported drug dealers and addicts still cite the image in his defense, according to political analysts.
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A series of online ads last year featured three sisters debunking old wives' tales about diesel, including that it was dirty and that it smelled bad.
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Brewis, a YouTuber known for both lengthy pop culture essays and debunking alt-right conspiracy theories, started the Donkey Kong 64 Twitch stream out of spite.
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With perpetrators like Brock Turner blaming their actions on alcohol, a significant component of the training is debunking the myth that alcohol leads to sexual assault.
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" Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of the hoax-debunking Snopes, was asked if she had seen a spike in fake news aimed at liberals: "Of course yes!
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At first, advocates were focused on calling out the lack of diversity at tech conferences, pressuring companies to release diversity data and debunking the pipeline problem.
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"Governments are worried about the economic impact, health supplies and food logistics, but I don't think government agencies are prepared for real-time debunking," she said.
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"The body is constantly filtering the toxins in alcohol, food and medicines, not storing them," dietitian Maria Adams told NPR, in a great piece debunking detoxing.
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His books since include a trivia almanac, a debunking of myths passed down to children, and a book about how comedy has come to dominate culture.
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He offers a history of the holiday, while also debunking urban legends like that of candy tampering, of which he only found two known lethal cases.
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Kathleen's report exposing and debunking Operation Infection made its way right to the top of the Kremlin into the hands of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev himself.
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Crews has been debunking Freud's scientific pretensions for decades now; and it seems fair to ask what keeps driving him back to stab the corpse again.
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Maza, who is gay, offered a compilation clip of all the times Crowder had referred to his sexuality when he was "debunking" Maza&aposs Vox show.
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It landed mostly with a thud, and it even ended up debunking the claim that the dossier was the origin of the F.B.I.'s Russia investigation.
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ZW: Early in the Trump administration you wrote a piece debunking the conspiracy theory that there's a "deep state" of entrenched bureaucrats bent on destroying Trump.
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Platforms like Twitter and Facebook are actively surfacing information from trusted sources any time someone searches for content related to the coronavirus and debunking fake stories.
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" But she adds: "I am also of the opinion that clean eating could be dangerous because there have been more things recently debunking myths around it.
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Like with Parkland, two reporters were targets of harassment — Vice political writer Eve Peyser and one of the authors of this post, who was debunking the hoaxes.
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As far back as 1969, a study set about debunking the claim that birth control and sex education would lead women and teens to having more sex.
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The last time I sat down and binged watched Dr. Oz shows, he seemed to be featuring more science — even debunking bogus health claims — and less woo.
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Along with debunking any rumors, Schumer also asked that in place of traditional of gifts, people consider donating to Everytown, an organization working toward stricter gun laws.
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Newly released video bolstered written reports from officers who raced from casino to casino on the Las Vegas Strip debunking reports of multiple shooters and bomb threats.
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"Obviously North loves Saint, she just is still jealous," Kardashian West said while debunking rumors surrounding an earlier admission that her eldest "does not like" her brother.
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How many times have you heard some urban legend, chain letter or misleading bit of news repeated and immediately found a thorough, fact-based debunking on Snopes?
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To learn more about where these theories came from — and get a thorough debunking for each one — we highly suggest you check out the full post here.
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You may think your floors are so clean you can eat off them, but a new study debunking the so-called five-second rule would suggest otherwise.
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The latest site isn't as elaborate, but it's simple and straightforward and calls back to the desk layout of her old site — including that rumor-debunking page.
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According to the indictment, security footage shows that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed the night of his death — debunking theories Epstein was murdered.
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Debunking misinformation, unless done with utmost tact and empathy, will often enrage those who have been duped and make them cling to the pseudoscientific evidence even harder.
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While other studies conducted since 1994 have undermined Lott's thesis, the new paper is the most comprehensive and assertive debunking of the more-guns-less-crime formula.
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The site Infowars, which regularly publishes unfounded rumors, even posted one story claiming there was a second shooter while publishing another that included updates debunking the claim.
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Journalists set about debunking his claims, explaining why thimerosal and formaldehyde, two compounds Neides claimed sickened him when he got a flu shot, do not cause damage.
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CHRISTOPHER DENTON ELMIRA, N.Y. ♦ To the Editor: Matthew Zapruder begins sensibly enough, debunking classroom dismemberment of poems and the flight to obscurity of too many poets.
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Debunking Myths About Estrangement (2017) New research challenges the deeply held notion that family relationships can't be dissolved and suggests that estrangement is not all that uncommon.
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But they might go a long way to confirming or debunking the claims that Cotten died at the time and in the manner disclosed to QuadrigaCX customers.
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Science Based Medicine, a website dedicated to evaluating medicine's scientific integrity, has an entire section dedicated to debunking false claims made by chiropractors and the chiropractic industry.
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In this story from April, Daniel Engber dives into debunking with "meta-skeptic" Mike Sutton, who busted a myth about a myth about why Popeye loves spinach.
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I think one point that was important to those who spoke was debunking the myth that you needed to sacrifice on quality in order to become diverse.
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Since brain training first came onto the scene, with games that claimed to predict the 'age' of your brain, there have been several studies debunking its usefulness.
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After this initial view of two contrasting European programs, "A Bright Future" is largely devoted to debunking the many attacks nuclear power has weathered over the years.
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Thus Kirk conscripts the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, a liberal Whig, into his conservative army, only because Macaulay wrote a rather atypical debunking of Bentham in his youth.
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" Debunking website Snopes agreed, stating, "No evidence was presented to demonstrate that hackers are currently using photographs to duplicate fingerprints in order to commit crimes or steal identities.
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Although there would certainly be poetic justice if the beauty industry ends up being successfully disrupted thanks to millions of user reviews debunking its not-so-miracle cures.
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In interviews with all these artists, they've credited emo as a major influence on their aesthetic and music, debunking the myth that Black people weren't into emo culture.
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If third-party fact-checkers like Boom write articles debunking false stories, Facebook also shows them as Related Articles immediately below the false stories in the News Feed.
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The organization had actually stopped debunking posts at the end of last year when its contract with Facebook expired, but efforts to negotiate a renewal have been unsuccessful.
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The fall is largely due to debunking some health claims about soy milk, but the rise of other milk alternatives like almond and coconut milk hasn't helped, either.
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Which brings up another issue: How many people who see or share a fake news story also see its debunking, which can come days or even weeks later?
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It comes right on the heels of the debunking of its claim that "no known ransomware" can run on Windows 10 S.[The Register, Ars Technica, The Verge]
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As Momo Challenge hysteria sweeps the nation, YouTube has started to demonetize all videos about the creature, including newscasts, explainers, and educational videos debunking the online urban legend.
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But the net neutrality investment canard isn't the only claim that remains stubbornly opposed to a solid debunking thanks to unskeptical media outlets in the post-truth era.
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Amid a flood of fake and disputed news, covering unreliable information often is the story — and doing so without offering up the content you're debunking leaves readers lacking.
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Two years ago, Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi, a former vice chancellor of Kannada University who spent decades debunking peddlers of superstition, was fatally shot in his home in Dharwad.
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"A dedicated team of journalists is debunking fake news daily, and also writing detailed explainers on controversial issues and claims," BBC's India Digital Editor, Milind Khandekar, told Reuters.
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Recently, trans journalist and writer Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl and Excluded, wrote a piece on Medium debunking some of the myths surrounding trans children in particular.
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Hours and hours and hours were spent on message boards, in comment sections, on email lists, debunking the same skeptic talking points over and over and over again.
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Bipartisan presidential tormentor Woodward's books have often specialized in debunking the illusion of a highly competent president and the cult of infallibility that sprouts around the Oval Office.
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If Facebook's fact-checkers reported them as false or misleading, the company could still add links to news articles debunking them, but it would likely leave them up.
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Human-to-human contact then becomes the key driver to prove human-to-robot contact is just as effective, debunking the very claim under consideration in the process.
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It's significant enough that well-regarded institutions, including Johns Hopkins University and research centers in England, have had to issue statements debunking claims that have been floated online.
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And the media's aforementioned crisis of supervisory constancy creates the searing potential for a prolonged shitshow, where even a dedication to debunking dark insinuations might only perpetuate them.
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Contrary to Mr. Stephens's suggestion, only 10 percent of national guard members are deployed on our border with Guatemala, debunking his assertion of insufficient manpower to face cartels.
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It is to Mr. Smith's credit that even in debunking so many of the most colorful myths — and at Tolstoyan length — he has not written a dull book.
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In addition to several articles debunking Goop's claims on her blog, Wielding the Lasso of Truth, her criticism has appeared in the New York Times and Huffington Post.
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The Instagram panic of 2019 earned a swift denial from the company — "There's no truth to this post," a spokesperson told reporters — and dozens of confident debunking stories.
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The Instagram panic of 2019 earned a swift denial from the company — "There's no truth to this post," a spokesperson told reporters — and dozens of confident debunking stories.
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Even if debunking doesn't have an immediate impact, getting the science on the record is important in the long run, Caulfield added, as is teaching critical thinking skills.
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Yet in 2018, scientists also helped us get a better handle on the truth by testing and debunking various de rigueur ideas in psychology, pop culture, and politics.
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Also, debunking the stereotypes you might glean from movies like Never Been Kissed or Irrational Man, most of these relationships — 57% — took place between male students and female teachers.
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Her essays on 'decrypting the alt-right' and incels garnered millions of views, as did her thorough debunking of prominent alt-right commentators like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.
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We need to face the fact that debunking a video as fake, even if it's proven by DARPA, won't change someone's mind if they're seeing what they already believe.
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They also did a masterful job of debunking the continued conspiracy theories and outright lies they knew Republicans would use to excuse and try to exonerate a guilty president.
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Iskra Lawrence is continuing her push for body positivity with a new video debunking all the simple posing tricks that some models use to alter their appearance in photos.
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Prior to the QAnon conspiracy blowing up recently, there weren't very many trusted sources where one could go to find out more about it, let alone debunking this nonsense.
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Every platform responded to the video differently, with YouTube removing the content, Facebook leaving it up while directing users to coverage debunking it, and Twitter simply letting it stand.
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In the two years previous to the most recent report, debunking stories dominated (though the split was nearly even), only to see suicide-myth stories rebound in 2016-2017.
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Fans were so convinced that Wren was A that ABC Family (now Freeform) had to release a statement debunking the alleged "spoilers," which turned out to be totally bogus.
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Less than a week after debunking claims that she wore butt pads, the star took to Snapchat to let everyone know that her curves in Fergie's sexy new 'M.
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"In many ways the debunking just reinforced the sense of alienation or outrage that people feel about the topic, and ultimately you've done more harm than good," she said.
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Adding "Billie Jean" to its rotation strengthened MTV as an authority on popular music, not just rock, while debunking the myth that Black artists weren't valuable to the station.
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She also claimed there's a growing body of research "debunking the idea that we have filter bubbles", and counter-suggesting that online influence sources are in fact "more diverse".
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In a statement debunking the idea, NASA noted that similar forecasts were made in January and March of that year that two asteroids were on dangerous paths toward Earth.
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He agreed the Goop debunking would only galvanize its fans and thought that Paltrow's new summits and magazine would further expand the Goop cult and deepen its members' beliefs.
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And Bill Nye Saves the World's agenda is explicitly skeptical — that is, it's geared toward debunking false assumptions about science, bad pseudoscience, medical quackery, and harmful non-scientific beliefs.
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Debunking the myth that women are less likely than men to ask for a salary raise: It's a myth that women ask for smaller raises because they lack confidence.
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It can take years, Dr. Gephard said, to educate a community or a private landowner about the merits of losing their dams, a process that often involves debunking myths.
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Univision pumped out Facebook and Twitter posts debunking the rumor, posted a more detailed article on its website and produced a television package for its stations across the country.
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The fact-checking website Snopes has done a thorough debunking of this particular version of the myth, about a panel that people over 75 would have to appear before.
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If bot networks are being used by antivaxxers, for example, then identifying and exposing these networks could torpedo their public credibility more than simply debunking any of their actual claims.
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The whistleblower-scientist, John Bates, claimed that NOAA broke its own rules for scientific integrity when it published a noteworthy scientific study debunking the so-called "hiatus" in global warming.
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Enter Snopes, which has been around since 22 and has long since become an invaluable, trustworthy source for fact-checking, debunking, and shutting down hysterical comment threads on Facebook.21998.
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So yeah, I'm compelled to attack anyone who is debunking others for their reliance on myths when the debunkers themselves can't see how their own thinking is shaped by myths.
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" In 2018, Gunter even published a study debunking Goop's claim that jade eggs "were recommended or used in sexual health practices or for pelvic muscle exercises in ancient Chinese culture.
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This election cycle has been heavily monitored by a collective of journalists calling themselves Verificado, who have built a strong reputation for breathlessly fact-checking politicians and debunking viral stories.
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Republican CongresspeopleWhen Bachmann and four of her House of Representatives colleagues claimed that "Muslim terrorists" had infiltrated the government, Cooper went on a seven-minute takedown, debunking the conspiracy theory.
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A cardboard sign reading "Go Home—no hate here" and the New York Times article debunking of the Pizzagate conspiracy now hang inside the restaurant, protected by a security guard.
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While conservative outlets have led the debunking charge against the Times story, New York Magazine ran its own story saying the Times "may have launched a false rumor" about Perry.
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Kalburgi's death came just months after the murder of a Communist leader in February 2015, as well as the 2013 killing of a writer who was committed to debunking superstitions.
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There are also some concerns about palm fruit oil as a potentially toxic ingredient, but Zesty Paws published an article debunking the myth, citing reputable sources such as Harvard Health.
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We got Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi at LAX debunking the buzz going around, saying they'd be stupid to call it quits when they're at the top of their game.
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His newest debunking initiative involves gathering researchers to debate whether climate change is human-caused, essentially brushing off the fact it's well-established by the scientific community that it is.
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Facebook sent it to a third-party fact-checker and laid news coverage debunking the video next to it while warning users that it was false before they shared it.
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First "Pseudodoxia Epidemica," from 1646, Browne's extended debunking of "vulgar errors," then his "Miscellany Tracts," which contains his glorious essay "Musaeum Clausum," perhaps the first English history of lost books.
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A hundred years later, Adam Hampshire, Roger Highfield, Adrian Owen, and Beth Parkin wrote an article for the journal Neuron debunking the notion that a unitary, measurable "intelligence" even exists.
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One might expect that facts would convince people that Mr. Trump's claim was baseless, but other political myths have proved remarkably robust to the sort of debunking Mr. Comey provided.
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Articles debunking the disinformation accompany the posts in news feeds now, too, and anyone who engaged with these posts will be sent a notification saying that they've been fact-checked.
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"Contrary to a claim in the story, we absolutely do not ask fact-checkers to prioritize debunking content about our advertisers," the company's head of news integrity partnerships Meredith Carden wrote.
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We're debunking the idea that "staying in" is synonymous with "dressing down," which means replacing those stretched-out elastic bottoms with super-soft silk pants, cute camisoles, and oversized button-ups.
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Craig Silverman, who focuses on debunking inaccurate information for us, had a great analysis of the differences in methods between John Legend and Charlamagne, and why Legend's approach would've worked better.
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After Amzat told other CrossCheck journalists about what he'd heard about the "Buhari is dead" rumor, the coalition decided to look into the story and published an article debunking it Nov.
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Moderator Lester Holt gave Trump an opportunity to explain to Americans, especially African-Americans, why he built his political career around birtherism despite the complete debunking of that particular conspiracy theory.
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In a 2015 paper, MIT professor of political science Adam Berinsky found that rather than debunking rumors or conspiracy theories, presenting people with facts or corrections sometimes entrenched those ideas further.
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If they confirm a story is fake, they notify Facebook through a special reporting website it exclusively built for them, and can include a link to a post debunking the article.
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But if you're looking to take your beauty obsession to the next level, we've found five podcasts that deliver insider knowledge, cult brands, industry trends, and myth-debunking to your headphones.
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Related: Debunking the myth of the winter blues Nostalgia, of course, has come to mean something different now, and the meaning began to change around the start of the 20th century.
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In fact, in some instances he may have helped the president by debunking claims in the Steele dossier and declaring, as a Trump insider, that he saw no evidence of collusion.
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The inevitable imperfections of social media platforms' misinformation nets has given rise to a whole new class of online creator: the scientist-influencer debunking false information in their area of expertise.
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Too bad the whole thing turned out to be an elaborate set-up to make a point about sloppy media coverage of scientific research for a documentary debunking the diet industry.
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He then decided to take me down based on the following tweet: It even earned me my own Snopes article debunking the false claims being made, and garnered international press coverage.
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"The Nevada debate was the debunking of this growing myth that Bloomberg was going to emerge as the alternative to Bernie Sanders and be acceptable to this political party," she said.
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"Hot Girl Summer" is yet another testament to the Houston rapper being inclusive of other women in hip-hop, further debunking the long-held myth that female emcees don't get along.
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Most of the technology that powers an iPhone — the internet, GPS, touch screen — came from public research labs, according to economist Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs.
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Many songs were based around single issues, ranging from his love of Enya to the debunking of the conspiracy that Jews run the world, but all subjects were tackled with sharp humor.
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It's a moment of political theater that could end in humiliation for Trump, with Comey expected to say that there was no wiretapping, debunking allegations that Trump has repeatedly refused to withdraw.
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Newspapers and independent verification groups have responded quickly with sites dedicated to verifying or debunking widely disseminated claims—but soon enough, fake fact-checkers emerged as well, hoping to muddy the waters.
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Fact-checkers have done a fine job of debunking Trump's wild assertion that millions voted illegally, although many headlines too credulously described it simply as a "claim" rather than a demonstrable falsehood.
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Yet research over the past decade has gone a long way toward debunking stereotypes about older workers - that they are less productive and energetic, and less able to learn or solve problems.
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Slate columnist Emily Yoffe spent so many words trying to debunk the survivors' accounts in the documentary The Hunting Ground that writing about Yoffe's debunking was its own category for a while.
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Debunking the myth of innovation is a step toward protecting the hundreds of thousands of medication-dependent Americans who are being gouged for profits on drugs they likely helped pay to create.
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Discovering an entirely new way to use the product and debunking typical American notions of the granulated stuff, Ben began the three-and-a-half-year process to fine-tune his craft.
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But The Witness isn't just a story about debunking a newspaper story that — now we know — incorrectly characterized not just the response to Kitty's attack, but a trait of the human condition.
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Now that the coronavirus has grown into a full blown pandemic, per the World Health Organization, healthcare professionals are working overtime to treat infected patients while simultaneously debunking myths about the virus.
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Now, he says, his coworkers understand the value in what he does -- which includes debunking medical myths and packaging conversations about healthcare in palatable ways for his nearly 5 million YouTube subscribers.
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This is the chasm to which Fox News, Republican debunking of reason and science, herd-reinforcing social media algorithms, liberal arrogance, rightist bigotry, and an economy of growing inequality have ushered us.
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YouTube, Google's Jigsaw, and Moonshot CVE have all collaborated to develop the Redirect Method, which finds users searching for keywords like "ISIS" and redirects them to videos debunking the extremist group's narratives.
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Today it launches the new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog, announcing that it will become one of the third-party partners tasked with debunking lies spread on the social network.
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While some on Wall Street are calling Icahn's move the next "big short," placing bets on store and mall closings by shorting an index called CMBX 6, others are debunking the trade.
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Going from the world's global trading chump to the global trade champ begins with debunking many global trade myths and replacing them with trade reality including: All countries want an unfair advantage.
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And then as time passes you forget the context in which you heard the myth - in this case during a debunking - and are left with just the memory of the myth itself.
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Education was key to debunking myths which shore up the practice, she said - uncut women are forbidden from picking vegetables or collecting water for fear they will kill crops or dry up rivers.
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But the data set derived from the research project that underpins the tipline may help the company fashion a more responsive and proactive approach to contextualizing and debunking malicious rumors in the future.
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Searching for "devin kelley antifa" on Twitter yields a long list of tweets about Kelley's wholly invented sympathies for antifa, a loosely organized radical leftist political movement, alongside articles debunking Kelley conspiracy theories.
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Despite the thorough scientific debunking of the most popular claims about the dangers of vaccines, Instagram isn't the only major online platform with a misinformation problem, or even specifically an anti-vaccine problem.
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In the aftermath of the tumultuous 2016 election, some Americans have become obsessed with debunking the "alt-right" — a fringe white nationalist movement that frequently espouses racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and sexist ideologies.
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In Rowling's introductory welcome message, the Harry Potter author explains her reasons for launching the site, and gives a brief overview of its features — including the intriguing sentence below, about a "debunking function".
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Even so, the research is part of a growing body of work focused on debunking outdated social and psychological assumptions about sexuality, said researcher David Ley, author of The Myth of Sex Addiction.
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But as Le Texier is quick to concede in an interview from Paris, his debunking of the experiment may be a case of closing the barn door after the horse has run off.
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The debunking studies do provide an optimistic takeaway of their own: We can all improve when we put our mind to it, but we don't have to hold ourselves to an impossible standard.
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InfoWars founder Alex Jones promoted a toothpaste he claims federal officials have said can kill coronavirus, which has infected and killed thousands worldwide, despite recent warnings issued by government agencies debunking that claim.
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But first, breaking tonight, &aposThe Story&apos making news again, many in the media hailing Congressman Trey Gowdy&aposs appearance here last night for apparently debunking what the president refers to as spygate. Listen.
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In recent days, conservative outlets such as the Daily Caller have hammered the network, claiming that Davis's public admission of his involvement in confirming the story amounts to a debunking of the original story.
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In a Facebook Live video on Wednesday night, part of her Red Table Talk Facebook Watch series, the actress, 47, talked about "debunking divorce" with her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, and psychotherapist Stacey Kaiser.
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And when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Google of tweaking its search engine's results to suppress bad news about Hillary Clinton, transparently debunking the claim and explaining the mechanics proved a bit complicated.
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Misleading stories can cause people to make up their minds about treatments before they even see a doctor, so doctors must spend valuable time debunking the misinformation, says Gary Schwitzer, the publisher of HealthNewsReview.
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A video posted with misleading context and used to spread a false rumor about voter fraud remains on Twitter despite election officials debunking it and asking the social media network to take it down.
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Luckily, ColourPop isn't in the business of letting things fester for too long, and we're not in the business of burying the lead, so let's start debunking: No, no, and it's kind of complicated.
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Now, while there are think pieces aplenty about the conspiracy—how it started, why people believe it, and countless debunking articles—few look into what conspiracy theorists are doing to mark this monumental occasion.
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"Our audiences are swimming in all kinds of information," Smith said, adding that the traditional posture of news organizations to ignore a baseless claim instead of engaging and debunking it may now be outdated.
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In real life, social-media users were also discussing the mysterious stain that suddenly appeared midway through the second quarter, leading to news sites debunking the speculation— growing Tide's organic reach as a result.
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FBI Director James Comey on Monday leveled two blows against the White House, confirming the Russia investigation and debunking the president's claim that former President Obama put Trump Tower under surveillance during the campaign.
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In Davis Miller's legend debunking biography, The Tao of Bruce Lee, there's an anecdote about the Little Dragon eating Nepalese hash brownies and passing out joints at louche parties in Hollywood and Hong Kong.
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The highest-profile debunking of the sellout in sports for 2018 came from Washington, DC. Originally reported by The Washington Post, the Washington Redskins officially ended their decade-long season-ticket waitlist this June.
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In its seven-way Democratic primary for governor, more than three times as many voters ranked at least six candidates as ranked one, debunking concerns that ranking candidates may be difficult or time-consuming.
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One 2017 study, by two UK-based psychologists, presented people with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and evidence debunking them — but randomly switched whether they saw the anti-vax arguments or the actual facts first.
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" Perhaps aware of some of the research debunking this as an academic theory in the intervening years, he noted in 2014 remarks related to the My Brother's Keeper program that it was "sometimes overstated.
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In another example, Mr. Trump turned a hypothetical talking point first into a purported reality and then — after headlines debunking his claim appeared — into a joke that he implied reporters had failed to grasp.
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The importance of a team like the United States, then, is not only in seeing straight and gay players side by side, but also debunking notions of what a lesbian player might look like.
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So you're saying that instead of amplifying the president's message by repeating it in the course of debunking it, we should focus on his tactics and talk about the truths he's trying to suppress.
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The goal of the campaign is to help educate parents about the proper way to manage kids' inevitable minor cuts, scrapes, and to help prevent infection, while also debunking some common first-aid care myths.
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The report also said that Vindman — who listened to the phone call firsthand — made some edits to the original record, debunking Trump's claim that the unclassified document was an "exact" transcription of the June conversation.
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" Binkowski said that on at least one occasion, it appeared that Facebook was pushing reporters to prioritize debunking misinformation that affected Facebook advertisers, which she thought crossed a line: "You're not doing journalism any more.
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Editor's note: On July 17, the Colerain Township police department, which is investigating the July 8 shooting at a party in Colerain Township, Ohio, released a statement debunking information given by one of the witnesses.
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A number of studies have found no evidence of massive voter fraud, however, and the Brennan Center for Justice found that noncitizen voting in 2016 was exceedingly rare, debunking Trump's claim on the popular vote.
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Debunking the "what Congress gives, Congress takes away" dogma changes a core premise of the ongoing political status debate, namely, that statehood is the only way to insure the continuation of Puerto Ricans' U.S. citizenship.
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Debunking the recent tendency to blame Facebook and other new media for political radicalism, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues that television played a much bigger role in creating Trump than the internet did.
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The promotion of ideas unsupported by the scientific consensus "did huge damage," says Nathan Geffen, author of Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign, a book about the fight against AIDS denialism.
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If you caught yesterday's story debunking the rumors surrounding the company, you know that a dash of mystique mixed with a clever business model has all but positioned ColourPop as a cosmetics heavyweight — seemingly overnight.
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How it works: According to Wojcicki, YouTube will work with Wikipedia to show alternate text with facts debunking conspiracy theories, like the one that spread after the Parkland shooting that student survivors were paid actors.
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Indeed, by the time Trump read Richman's article onstage in 2016, The Washington Post had already appended a note to the op-ed linking to three rebuttals and a peer-reviewed study debunking the research.
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In heels and evening dresses, the women use wigs, stilettos, and spears as weapons, shattering notions that women can't be tough, while debunking the stereotype of savagery, a comment Klaue even makes in the film.
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Bill Nye Saves the World gives us a glimpse of better things to come in its second episode, which is devoted to debunking various kinds of alternative medicine — one of the skeptical movement's biggest crusades.
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"When we do the debunking, a lot of times people just don't trust the debunk," said Leonardo Cazes, an editor working on the "Fato ou Fake" news literacy project with O Globo, a Brazilian newspaper.
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Beyond the review's general tone of condescension and occasional misogynistic sniping, Moser gives only a scanty and distorted notion of the book's contents and instead spends most of his review debunking points Briggs never made.
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Top Iowa Republican: 'Stop this misinformation campaign immediately'These claims of voter fraud have appeared so far-reaching that Paul Pate, the Republican secretary of state of Iowa, has had to issue a statement debunking them.
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READ: Republicans aren't budging on Trump and Ukraine The attention roiled the Biden campaign this weekend to the point that it sent out a missive to reporters linking to 18 separate articles debunking the allegations.
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Their second album, PUNK—not to be confused with their first album and other main tenet of the Chai manifesto, PINK—continues their commitment to debunking Japanese ideals of feminine cuteness and empowering women worldwide.
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"I'm not saying it was pleasant or anything — it was the opposite — but it was a completely different category from slavery," said Liam Hogan, a research librarian in Ireland who has spearheaded the debunking effort.
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But here's the really crazy part: After all the debunking of Paltrow's fishy wellness claims over the years, including Timothy Caulfield's 2015 book that focused entirely on her Goopshit, the jade eggs have sold out.
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In Sully, those bureaucrats are played by Mike O'Malley, Anna Gunn and Jamey Sheridan as snarling, browbeating bulldogs who have no time for tales of heroics; their investment in debunking Sully's hero status seems almost ... personal.
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Jack Ma, the head of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and China's best-known capitalist, is a Communist Party member, the official Party newspaper said on Monday, debunking a public assumption the billionaire was politically unattached.
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Land also heats and cools more quickly than the ocean, The Weather Channel noted while debunking a recent Breitbart News article that was widely found to have cherry-picked data to cast doubt on climate change.
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The takedowns flew in, from Slate and Bernie Sanders, from plenty of scientists, and most notably from the Weather Channel, which deemed Breitbart's use of their meteorologist's face worthy of a point-by-point debunking video.
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According to Jarreau, the trend of scientists debunking online misinformation as a side hustle is also precedented, and of the two schools of critics, it's the haters who may point to the real issue with debunkings.
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About a week after VICE News published its first story debunking his offerings, a Manhattan man who had put in to purchase Coachella tickets from NYC VIP Access says his money was suddenly and unexpectedly refunded.
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Early on, MacCarthy states her goal of debunking the myth that Gropius, born in Berlin in 1883 and now considered one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture, was somehow an unsexy subject for biographical study.
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Update: The security firm Kaspersky Lab has issued a statement debunking previous reports that today's ransomware attack is related to the Petya virus, reporting that around 2,000 users have been victims of the ransomware so far.
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This show's former hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, are gone, but the Science Channel is plowing ahead with its popular showcase for explosions, fires and car crashes, all under the guise of debunking common beliefs.
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Its overarching finding, though, was that people of all pet- and non-pet owning statuses were similarly depressed and anxious -- debunking the "crazy cat lady" stereotype and proving that we're all as miserable as each other.
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Those are a few of the falsehoods spread online that are in need of debunking in this age of "fake news," when misinformation seems to appear from nothing and reaches hurricane-force speeds in an instant.
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Accusers exploit this predictable behavior to target expression they don't like — as the Ecuadorean government has reportedly done with political criticism, the Church of Scientology with religious disputes and disgraced researchers with scholarship debunking their work.
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When various accounts began citing the claim that Mr. Sanders intended to tax Americans making more than $29,000 a year at a rate higher than 50 percent, Jordan Tirona, 19, responded with a video debunking it.
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This is true even if, as often happens, the articles eventually, quite a few paragraphs in, get around to debunking the hype: many if not most readers will take the headline as validation of the claim.
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In 22016, it was all about Meetup, as well as suddenly prominent individual bloggers like Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, whose dogged work in debunking a questionable report changed the shape of Dan Rather's career.
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Luckily for the president, a group of less gullible staff members stepped in before Donald Trump publicly mentioned the fake, debunking the already-debunked 1970s cover before the president had the chance spread the own fake news.
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Both books reflect the extraordinarily impactful role parent advocacy played in securing educational access and debunking the immensely damaging "refrigerator mother" theory, popularized by Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, that libeled parents as the cause of their children's diagnosis.
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Teaching audiences about how to spot fake news will be the next project of Africa Check, a nonpartisan fact-checking organization that operates across the continent verifying and, at times, debunking claims made by those in power.
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Biden said, "One of the things the president and I are proudest of accomplishing over the last eight years is debunking the myth that America can't grow our economy and bring down emissions at the same time.".
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Instead of debunking Copernicus, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems featured three characters discussing the merits of his ideas, including an older, slow-witted supporter of Aristotle named Simplicio, who clearly represented the church's beliefs.
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BuzzFeed complained after the shooting that Twitter was losing its usefulness as a source of credible news, counting 25 different people who hoaxers falsely claimed were the shooter, including a BuzzFeed journalist who was debunking the hoaxes.
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Much of the media's coverage focused on debunking or complicating Trump's narrative, but in letting that coverage reach saturation levels, the media let Trump control the narrative and push dozens of worthier stories out of the headlines.
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Vox's German Lopez has a thorough debunking of the myth here, and almost every major media organization — the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, even Fox News — has said there's zero reason to believe the allegation.
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" In an email to Mashable, Beutel added that there is "lots of evidence NASA landed 12 American astronauts on the Moon from 1969 â€" 1972" and pointed to an article by NASA debunking the conspiracy theories.
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The company also receives much less pay from the government for borrowers who postpone payments, "debunking claims that servicers have an incentive to place borrowers in forbearance" rather than income-based plans, according to a Navient statement.
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However, after the umpteenth time this happened — debunking my obsessing with the podcast Missing Richard Simmons, which I had thus managed to consume in a vacuum — I couldn't help but wonder: am I just a bad person?
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Then came Gillian Flynn's twisted domestic thriller, "Gone Girl," which featured a charming sociopath named Amy and sold nearly nine million copies in the United States alone, thoroughly debunking the notion that readers prefer "likable" female characters.
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"Maybe the outcry against the Tribeca Film Festival will make other public figures think twice before legitimizing dangerous misinformation about vaccines," said Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan, who has studied the impact of debunking on public opinion.
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In brisk Chytilová style she gets straight to the point, debunking the famous story of the apple —Eva bites it in one of the early scenes and offers it to her husband, Josef, who merely dismisses it.
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The libertarian website Reason debunked these claims, explaining that the truth was a lot more mundane and complicated: BuzzFeed was among the few generally left-leaning websites that focused on debunking questionable claims made about the AHCA.
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Kjellberg's December video drew responses from other YouTubers, debunking or explaining or affirming the claim by YouTube's biggest star that the platform just wasn't what it used to be, some gathering millions of views of their own.
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We saw this in the rushes to defend XXXtentacion against a horrific account of an alleged pattern of emotional and physical assault on a young woman, where the bad faith debunking manifested in doxing of the victim.
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Apart from debunking the wisdom of the physical presence rule for an increasingly digital economy, the Kill Quill movement also must convince the court to stop deferring to Congress, which it has done ever since deciding Quill.
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According to the fact-checking and debunking website Snopes, false information about this supposed mandate starting popping up during 2017's hurricane season as Harvey and Irene bore down on the Gulf Coast and East Coast respectively.
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Just last week, an article claiming that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had agreed to build Trump's border wall in exchange for a gun ban swept across Facebook, getting much more engagement than an article debunking the story.
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In an ideal world, the system would go further still and allow users (or Facebook employees) to suggest sources providing evidence of the falsehood, including myth-debunking sites such as Snopes or simply mainstream, respectable news sources.
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Before the start of the hearing, Dorsey laid out data that showed Democrat an Republican Congress members got the same number of impressions per tweet when controlling for follower count — debunking the theory that it suppresses conservative messaging.
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Feldman, who is on maternity leave, said she has personally been putting in more than four hours a day debunking misinformation in the booklet, which is being passed around in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in two Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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Citigroup, one of Jumia's IPO underwriters, released a report debunking most of Citron's allegations, but noted that, "Jumia could do more to provide disclosure on some aspects of its operations, as a matter of transparency and best practice."
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"The closer we got to the 2016 election the less it became about actually debunking conservative misinformation and more it became about just defending Hillary Clinton from every blogger in their mother's basement," one former staffer told us.
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Lovecraft made several trips to visit Barlow in Florida by bus, debunking what for years was a common image of Lovecraft as a sickly person who rarely left home and confined most of his outside activity to nighttime.
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"It's all about getting views, it's all about virality, it's all about making money," she says in a video debunking several dangerous and fake baking hacks—including one that, in practice, sent molten caramel flying across the room.
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Other officers raced casino-to-casino, debunking reports of multiple shooters and false bomb threats on the Las Vegas Strip while colleagues put themselves in harm&aposs way to protect wounded and fleeing concert-goers in the Oct.
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Also shaping the news this week was a meticulous debunking of President Trump's longstanding claim that his wealth was his own doing, and that he received little help from this father, Fred C. Trump, a real estate developer.
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On Friday, he stuck by his wiretapping charge — without disputing a Fox News commentator's claim of British spy involvement — despite Republican leaders in Congress debunking his accusation, saying that intelligence investigators have found no evidence to back it.
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These contractors will be charged with debunking the most obviously fake content on the platform, before passing the information to the third-party, professional fact-checking organizations that Facebook already works with who will make a final decision.
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This week it has been reported that the European Union's East StratCom Task Force – a body dedicated to debunking so-called "disinformation" coming from Russia's direction – found Merkel to increasingly fall in the firing line of fake news stories.
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When J Jayalalithaa, a prominent Indian politician, was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition in December, for instance, the duo stayed focused on debunking hoax messages and photographs about her death days before she actually passed away.
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Researchers are using Inauguration Day to stand up for science, filling social media with celebratory comments about discoveries, debunking some of Trump's anti-science claims, and reminding the public that many of our favorite inventions came from basic research.
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East German-style national talent-scouting programmes were created, producing Olympic medallists from those who had never previously played the sport—in the process debunking a widespread notion that 10,000 hours are needed to achieve excellence in a skill.
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Fueled by conspiracy theorists posting on social media sites like Reddit, Facebook and Twitter, the story picked up so much traction that The New York Times and the Washington Post were forced to track it down, finally debunking it.
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"It seems calculated to bamboozle non-specialist journalists and slow the efforts of in-the-know technologists working on refuting or debunking it," said Patrick McKenzie, the CEO of Starfighters, who analyzed and found issues with Wright's alleged signature.
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Yet, studies refute these claims as baseless, concluding that voter fraud is extremely rare to the point of being practically nonexistent (see Brennan Center for Justice's "Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth") — but don't just take my word for it!
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And she would have been able to make the case the best way possible: debunking the sham legal reasoning that has upheld the putative right for decades by day and blazing an alternative path with her family by night.
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A seasoned forensic pathologist, Hsu has dedicated over twenty years to examining the post-mortem, offering insight and analysis into the many ways the body dies while debunking myths perpetuated by her Hollywood counterparts on Law & Order and CSI.
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From my vantage point, you'd get more cool points if you weren't a satanist—fashions change and, as a satanist, you have to do a lot of explaining and debunking and clearing the way before you even get anywhere.
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Because theories like those underlying the Mozart Effect have a tendency to be so broadly misinterpreted—even inspiring some researchers to dedicate their entire careers to debunking them, Gabrieli says— it's important to not get ahead of the science.
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The government's document dispelled some of the wishful thinking expounded by Brexit supporters, debunking claims that withdrawal would lift the economy by permitting Britain to strike a new set of trade deals with fast-growing economies around the world.
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Otherwise it wouldn't have happened," said Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who now has his own show on NRA-TV with the tagline "Making the world a better place by debunking one liberal myth at a time.
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"Rather than spend time debunking decade-old myths about our organization, GSUSA chooses to put our efforts into ensuring all girls have the tools they need to make the world a better place," a Girl Scouts spokesperson told MUNCHIES.
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At the same time, the swing voters themselves are very real, concern about alienating them with unpopular positions is valid, and nothing about Trump's election win should be seen as debunking the basic conventional wisdom about all of this.
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According to the Australian debunking site Hoax Slayer, once drawn into the scam portal some users were roped into giving their contact info to spammers, while others were tricked into installing malware, or even what sounds like some kind of ransomware.
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Lundblad also responded to flag up a YouTube counterspeech initiative — called Redirect, that's currently only running in the UK — that aims to catch people who are searching for extremist messages and redirect them to other content debunking the radicalizing narratives.
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This one was my favorite, because look at the adorable children: I'm especially grateful to my colleague Jane Lytvynenko, who sits across from me, for staying on top of fake news and viral hoaxes; she's the best at debunking misinformation.
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Extracting the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 from the water and reconstructing it was critical to debunking various conspiracy theories, including suspicions that terrorists struck the plane with a rocket or that it was hit a meteor or a missile.
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Many reputable scientific authorities have weighed in on this question, including a major paper in the journal Science debunking the idea that the brains of males and females are so different that they should be educated in single-sex classrooms.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Jack Ma, the head of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and China's best-known capitalist, is a Communist Party member, the official Party newspaper said on Monday, debunking a public assumption the billionaire was politically unattached.
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, a blog dedicated to debunking false history, also found the quote to be "bogus" in part for another reason cited by Snopes: Stalin was the least likely person to ever say anything positive about the United States.
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As hostile foreign governments and kekking 4channers sow the seeds of discontent and the theories ascend from seedy message board chains to the mainstream media, the press has been forced to spend time explaining and debunking the increasingly insidious claims.
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The debunking effort comes only a day after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called out CNN for being "fake news" at press conference after the cable news outlet alleged Trump had been briefed on Russia having sensitive information about him.
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Every contested assertion a president makes must be run to ground, but in this case, the universal debunking—and the White House's subsequent refusal to retract the claim—raised questions nearly as serious as the false scandal Trump had alleged.
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W. Joseph Campbell is a professor at the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of six books including Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism (University of California Press, 2017).
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We'd recommend checking in on Snopes as well, which does a great job of debunking some of the most well-known fake photos out there, particularly the ones that keep getting recirculated again and again, sometimes years after originally getting debunked.
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It's a rollicking page-turner about a skeptical journalist who runs a UFO debunking website, a Holocaust survivor, an heiress whose father mysteriously dies, and a Marine pilot who gets recruited into a secret government technology project at Area 51.
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For example, you could offer to send them an article from the Centers for Disease Control for medical and health information, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for environmental information, or the reputable debunking site Snopes to compare the information.
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By then, however, the girl's initial story was taking on a life of its own within the Russian-German community through word of mouth and Facebook — enough so that the police felt compelled to put out a statement debunking it.
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Peniel Joseph: Debunking the mythology of Malcolm X Stephanie Rousselle: What the French know about love AND.... The real George Washington "You Never Forget Your First," is the clever title of a new biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe.
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But a recent conversation with Dr. Bach was less about debunking Longfellow and demythologizing Revere than about explaining how Revere fit into colonial Boston society and the infrastructure that the patriots had created long before the first shot was fired.
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And instead of debunking Trump, Fox News credulously covered his remarks with chyrons like "TRUMP BLASTS IMPEACHMENT TRIAL AS 'HOAX' WHILE IN DAVOS" — framing that may lead people who aren't actually watching the hearing to buy what Trump is selling.
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It would be nice to believe that such arguments have been relegated to the history books since Durden's debunking and the civil rights gains of the 1960s, but, like the reporting in Pike's book, that wouldn't be close to the truth.
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"This isn't just about debunking falsehoods," said Jenni Sargent, the managing director of First Draft News, a nonprofit that is partly funded by Google and expanding rapidly in France ahead of the country's elections, as well as across Europe and beyond.
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While there was some evidence that he was turning away from pseudoscience for a brief period following the criticism by colleagues (even debunking bogus health claims), lately he's gone back to his pseudoscience staples, including promoting crash diets and detox regimens.
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Thanks to the iPhone X and the iPhone 8, recent estimates show that Apple once again holds the top two spots for the most-shipped smartphone models in the world, debunking reports that demand for the iPhone X was lacking.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key Republican lawmaker said on Wednesday he did not believe the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign, adding to pressure on FBI Director James Comey to provide evidence supporting or debunking Republican President Donald Trump's claim.
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The Associated Press is bringing its fact-checking services to Spanish-language posts, Daniel Funke reports: In a press release sent to Poynter on Tuesday, the wire service announced that it will start debunking false content in Spanish for its American audience.
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Sociologists have made arguments debunking the "myth of the trophy wife" -- or at least positioning it as a retro ideal from, say, the days when Jacqueline Kennedy was a potential first lady — and a consideration less important to a savvy younger generation.
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Debunking 5 (More) Viral Rumors About Kavanaugh's Accusers On the day Christine Blasey Ford testified before Congress — with Facebook's top lobbyist incidentally on hand to support Brett Kavanaugh — Kevin Roose rounds up more of the misinformation that has been spreading about her.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women ask for a pay rise as often as men, but men are 25 percent more likely to get it when they ask, according to a study debunking the myth women are too shy to demand a raise.
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Members of the Yes On 3 campaign, which supports the law, spent most of their time explaining what it means to be transgender, what the current law means and debunking myths about its impact on public safety, field director David Topping said.
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I'd like to think the conversations I had with the band went a long way towards debunking that particular critique, but the whole situation has got me thinking about the word "gimmick," insofar as it relates to heavy metal as a whole.
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In the audio of the tantrum posted by Page Six, West inexplicably claims to be "50 percent more influential" than Stanley Kubrick, the Apostle Paul, Picasso, and all other humans dead or alive, also debunking the myth that men are better at math.
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The trial is expected to become a slow drip of evidence that will embarrass the Russian government by debunking a variety of conspiracy theories promoted by state media, and it may implicate senior Kremlin officials already linked to the disaster by existing evidence.
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My book also gives concrete examples of how it is no longer so easy to twist science to support long-cherished stereotypes because ancient DNA is now debunking the stories that used to be made up about the nature of human variation.
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It stresses timely eco-consciousness, introducing visitors to shark habitats, explaining how critical sharks are to the ocean's food chains and ecologies, debunking myths about the danger sharks pose to people while documenting the threats people pose to sharks via overfishing and pollution.
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Dr. Andersson, who was a senior author of a 2014 paper on the rabbit genome, found the debunking of the myth persuasive, but he noted in an email that he and his co-authors did not cite the story in their genome paper.
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Saturday evening, Bergstrom spent several hours writing a 31-tweet thread debunking a widely shared Medium post by a tech worker who said, based in part on his experience in viral marketing, that officials are overreacting with strict limits on personal movement.
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In particular, support for evidence-based interventions, such as medication-assisted treatment (MAT), is critical to saving lives and debunking the myth that MATs "substitute one drug for another" — a misconception that has been stated by none other than the HHS secretary.
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Read more:Gwyneth Paltrow&aposs website went after a doctor who keeps debunking its health advice — here&aposs what you should know about the feud6 terrible and potentially dangerous health tips from Gwyneth PaltrowThe 9 worst Gwyneth Paltrow beauty tips of all time
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Shuster and other supporters of the plan are expected to continue making a push for the plan this week, by talking to colleagues during vote series and delivering floor speeches aimed at debunking arguments against the spinoff model, according to one GOP aide.
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He also testified that a top Ukrainian official began asking him about the aid in mid-August, debunking Trump and his allies' claim that there couldn't have a quid pro quo with the funds because the Ukrainians didn't know about the freeze.
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" After a closed-door session with a scientific advisory panel chaired by H.P. Robertson from the California Institute of Technology, the C.I.A. issued a secret report recommending a broad educational program for all intelligence agencies, with the aim of "training and debunking.
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On May 30, on his personal Twitter account, Vox journalist Carlos Maza posted a video compilation of instances in which he says Crowder has targeted him: Since I started working at Vox, Steven Crowder has been making video after video "debunking" Strikethrough.
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"We believe deeply in @Wikipedia's mission and apologize for engaging in activity inconsistent with those principles," the company wrote on Twitter yesterday, in response to a post from the official Wikipedia account debunking the claim it had worked with North Face on the project.
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The Facebook spokesperson said the company's new plan to surface fact checks as related articles in the News Feed will likely help with engagement for debunkings, and that the tools used by fact-checkers to notify Facebook of a new debunking have also improved.
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The problem with the "flood the zone" strategy is that when you respond by debunking the bullshit stories — like the claim that Hillary Clinton sold uranium to Russia — all you do is amplify it and thus help to frame the conversation on false grounds.
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I spoke to Stephan Lewandowsky, a psychologist at the University of Bristol and co-author of The Debunking Handbook, to find out: Susannah Locke: There's evidence that when people stick with wrong facts, it isn't just stubbornness — but actually some sort of brain glitch.
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Bannon spoke out on climate change concerns more than 20 years ago During his four years at Breitbart, much of the website's content was devoted to "debunking" climate change, with articles calling its supporters "pure scum" and putting the word science in scare quotes.
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But whether or not this trial fails, it'll bring us closer to answering an important question, maybe the most important question, on health information right now: Instead of just debunking, which often fails, can we prevent dubious claims from catching on in the first place?
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"I do think that this combination of technology to drive attention to patterns of problems, and to larger trends of problem areas, and that then combined with human oversight, human detection, human debunking, right now is an important alley to go to," she said.
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"Modernist Bread" finds inspiration in a variety of sources, industrial as well as artisanal, offering a defense of high fructose corn syrup alongside a guide to caring for wild sourdough starters, and debunking the idea that water purity affects the rise and flavor of bread.
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Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally, said he was perplexed by House Democrats' decision to focus so much of their opening arguments on debunking the accusations against Hunter and Joe Biden Thursday, noting that makes the controversy fair game for the president's defense team.
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David Fahrenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting this year for his series debunking President Trump's claims to charitable contributions and for the biggest bombshell of the presidential campaign: the revelation of the "Access Hollywood" recording in which Mr. Trump boasted of groping women.
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Snopes, the fact-checking website that once focused on debunking flimsy internet rumors but has expanded into a 16-person operation that calls out political leaders for dishonesty, is locked in a legal battle that it says has drained the money it needs to survive.
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" As the New York Times reported in February when debunking an earlier version of Trump's "$500 million" claim: "Under the one-year deal, this year South Korea will pay 1.04 trillion won, or $925 million, an increase of $70 million from last year's $855 million.
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The 60-second videos — to be released every Tuesday until the election — will feature Grey's Anatomy and How to Get Away with Murder actors Justin Chambers, Kelly McCreary, Karla Souza, Conrad Ricamora, Kevin McKidd and Aja Naomi King debunking "common excuses&apos" people use to not vote.
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The new series is expected to follow much of the same format as its predecessor, taking viewers on a 30-minute trip through the technique, history, science, and even anthropology behind some of our favorite dishes while debunking myths about and finding the best cookware for others.
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A 2015 post by Brian Cronin debunking Marvel urban legends found that several editors had never spoken with Yoshida before, which suggested that the rumor was true, but Marvel editor Mike Marts then claimed that he had lunch with Yoshida who showed him a Godzilla memorabilia collection.
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Far from distancing himself from Valleywag's no-holds-barred mentality, Denton also runs through some of the blog's most celebrated scoops, including coverage of early Facebook leader Sean Parker's messy wedding and a debunking of Shiva Ayyadurai's claim that he invented email (Ayyadurai is also suing Gawker).
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Shortly after the Times Higher Education shared its story, Bann replied with a series of tweets about student conduct in the 1700s — referencing a "collection of 18thC student disciplinary records" she once transcribed — in hopes of debunking the notion that millennials are the worst to teach.
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Lila Rose and her team from Live Action had great fun debunking the myth that Planned Parenthood is the place to go for breast cancer screening with a mammogram, recording phone calls to dozens of facilities coast-to-coast and finding not a single mammogram machine.
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READ: Donald Trump had a very weird weekend at the G7 summit "Needless to say, this is not a good idea," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says in the Frequently Asked Questions section of its website dedicated to debunking the idea of nuking hurricanes.
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The third-party sites Facebook is now using to assess articles shared on the platform are all part of Poynter's fact-checking network, and include the urban legend-debunking–turned–fact-checking site Snopes as well as news organizations like ABC News and the Associated Press.
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The David Otter study on the effects of opening to China, while not terribly definitive, debunking of the idea that we should have been open to trade to China did suggest that the losses for jobs among a certain segment of men were pretty massive in certain areas.
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But the debunking of the administration's specific numbers about terrorism at the border kind of misses a bigger point: that this whole conversation is about the typical vetting and screening process people undergo to enter the United States, and the number of people "caught" are the ones successfully identified.
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The consequences of misinformation are particularly bad for those who have autism, she wrote: For nearly two decades, funding for autism research has been continually diverted away from study into treatment and supports for autistic individuals and instead toward debunking a fear that has been debunked dozens of time.
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In factual matters, there's some evidence that debunking people — for example, by telling Republicans that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, or Democrats that the Bush administration did not ban all stem cell research — actually backfires and leads them to hold their current wrong beliefs more stridently.
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This one stresses timely eco-consciousness, introducing visitors to shark habitats, explaining how critical sharks are to the ocean's food chains and ecologies, debunking myths about the danger sharks pose to people while documenting, in occasionally graphic detail, the threats people pose to sharks via overfishing and pollution.
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Within hours of the publication of one of the debunking articles, a post on Twitter by Representative Steven Smith of the 15th District of Georgia — not a real lawmaker and not a real district — warned that what was fake was the information being peddled by the mainstream media.
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And it's a particularly powerful force in politics, where everyday voters tend to start with an identity — framed most strongly by partisanship but also by race, income, and gender — and then adopt beliefs based on that identity, rejecting attempts at debunking that might threaten those beliefs or identity.
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The publication of yet another major study debunking the vaccine-autism link, on March 2000 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, seems like a good moment to look back at what fueled the vaccine concerns, and consider how we can prevent other ideas harmful to public health from taking hold.
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Mr. Trump's appeal with the religious right is debunking some long-held maxims about evangelical voters, showing that they are not monolithic; that they do not fall neatly in step with evangelical leaders, many of whom endorsed Mr. Cruz; and that within evangelical ranks lie fault lines of class and culture.
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RELATED: The new birthers: Debunking the Hillary Clinton health conspiracy Questions surrounding Clinton's fitness, though widely debunked, reached a fever pitch within conservative media late this summer, with pro-Trump forces like the Drudge Report and Sean Hannity routinely indulging conspiracy theories that the Democratic nominee is secretly in grave health.
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Last year was the warmest year on record globally, beating the previous milestones set in 2014 and 2015 The Pruitt-debunking study, published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, found that satellite temperature records, which Pruitt had cited in congressional testimony, don't show any hiatus but rather a continued warming trend.
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It will also attach a warning label noting "Disputed by [one or more of the fact checkers]" with a link to the debunking post on News Feed stories and in the status composer if users are about to share a dubious link, plus prohibit disputed stories from being turned into ads.
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While debunking some old myths the conclusion of the paper did suggest that there were important benefits of a symptomatic hangover calling it "a protective warning sign that will certainly have aided humans over the ages to modify future behavior, and hence pass on this evolutionary advantage to next generations."
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Among Dorsey's statements was the suggestion that the pressure to ban Alex Jones from the site was "political," and the notion that journalists and the news media — not, say, Twitter moderators — should be responsible for policing harmful fake news and conspiracies like Jones's and debunking them before they can spread.
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As Vox's Julia Belluz wrote about Goop's ability to galvanize its fans despite critical and scientific debunking, the appeal of a natural cure-all deeply appeals to people: Traditional medicine has failed people in many cases, and often lacks solutions for the most common health woes — chronic pain, obesity, Alzheimer's.
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This work, from a group of evidence-minded people, is the closest thing we have to a recipe book for how to keep health bunk from spreading: Instead of trying to change people's beliefs after the fact with debunking, let's teach them to spot pseudoscientific drivel in the first place.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Genes taken from archived blood samples show the U.S. AIDS epidemic started in New York in the early 1970s, definitively debunking the long-held belief that the virus was spread in the early 1980s by a flight attendant who became vilified as "Patient Zero" for seeding the U.S. outbreak.
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Writing on transhumanism often gets swept away by the inherent drama of its adherents' promises, but O'Connell's eye for small human details—the pistachio dropped down a smug businessman's shirt, "open to the ideally entrepreneurial three-to-four buttons"—keeps the narrative grounded in a way that rigorous scientific debunking wouldn't.
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This attack shows that along with debunking fakes and helping spread accurate information, newsrooms, platforms, and public officials need to think about how to avoid playing into the hands of people whose deadly actions are designed to trigger maximum exposure for their message, and set off new cycles of violence and radicalization.
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Earlier this year the government did announce plans to set up a dedicated national security unit to combat state-led disinformation campaigns, with the unit expected to monitor social media platforms to support faster debunking of online fakes — by being able to react more quickly to co-ordinated interference efforts by foreign states.
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If the Broadway HD stream can garner a large viewership — and, even better, boost ticket sales for the live production — it will be a huge step toward debunking Broadway's long-held belief that providing content to theater fans over the internet will give them no incentive to buy tickets for the live performance.
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"No surprise there," I hear you saying, but here's the kicker: These hoaxers have been getting these ads placed on hoax-debunking websites Snopes and PolitiFact, where people visit specifically to get a break from lies, where the editorial content is trustworthy and fact-based, and where readers' guards may be down.
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Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan put together a very nice video debunking the myth that Sunni-Shia sectarianism is all about ancient religious hatreds and explaining how modern-day power politics, beginning in 1979, is actually driving much of the sectarianism we're seeing right now: #RealityCheck: The myth of a Sunni-Shia war.
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" 'The Joker Is Simply a Clown Who Loves Crime' [The Outline] Alex Nichols, after debunking a popular misconception about the 2012 Aurora shooter James Holmes ("he was not outwardly Jokerlike and did not tell police that he was the Joker after the shooting"), questions the repeated refrain that "violent media breeds violent behavior.
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Because of him, he says, Israel's tech sector has become the envy of much of the world, formerly hostile capitals have opened to Israeli diplomats, and a thorough debunking has been administered to the idea that Israel, with its brutal treatment of the Palestinians, had to choose between its security and international acceptance.
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Even the Post's straight news piece about the supposed Cruz/Lee Harvey Oswald connection lead with an incredulous dependent clause, describing Trump as "Never one to shy away from discussing unsubstantiated tabloid fodder …" In theory, debunking political whoppers is what the press is supposed to do, but in practice, things aren't usually so straightforward.
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While they did not provide specific examples, Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty resonated by debunking the unattainable and demeaning physical standards women are held to; Chipotle — at least until its recent E. Coli outbreak issues — struck a chord with consumers opposed to big agriculture through its practice of buying ingredients locally and encouraging small businesses.
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Additionally, a larger study set to be presented on this week at the Philadelphia event showed that LDL cholesterol — "bad" cholesterol linked to a more serious risk of heart disease — was present at higher levels in e-cigarette users than non-smokers, seemingly debunking the myth that e-cigarette use is "healthier" than traditional cigarettes.
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The promise was never quite dead (the second stanza of the "Build the Wall" campaign chant, the part about Mexico paying, has faded, drowned by the debunking of nonsensical claims) but two years into the Trump administration, the urgency of building a wall exploded onto the scene only after tangible threats to Trump looked imminent.
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Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner is debunking reports that she has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE.
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His pictures were inspired by the turn-of-the-century German Jugendstil ("youth style," or Art Nouveau), graphic artist provocateurs who regularly outraged both bourgeois and aristocratic Junker classes by poking holes in their masks and debunking their pretensions in the notorious weekly satirical journal Simplicissimus (also known as Der Simpl in the 1940s).
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Even when James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., reaffirmed, two days before the election, that the candidate should not face criminal charges tied to her e-mails, the effect of the statement was exactly what Shankar had put forth at the Flint church: debunking a myth often does little more than reinforce it.
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Dikötter—who, given his subject, has a wonderfully suggestive, Nabokovian name—is a Dutch-born professor of history at the University of Hong Kong; he has previously written about the history of China under Mao, debunking, at scholarly length and with a kind of testy impatience, the myth of Mao as an essentially benevolent leader.
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Since Texas Republican Lamar Smith took over its leadership in 2012, the Committee has spiraled down an increasingly anti-science rabbit hole: absurd hearings aimed at debunking consensus on global warming, outright witch hunts using the Committee's subpoena power to intimidate scientists, and a Republican membership that includes some of the most anti-science lawmakers in the land.
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"Since I was all over national TV, cable and print defending wikileaks and Assange against the claim that you are Russian agents and debunking the false charges of sexual assault as trumped up bs you may want to reexamine the strategy of attacking me- cordially R," Stone wrote to Wikileaks on October 13, 2016, according to The Atlantic.
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It's no coincidence that the science stories we see most often today, the ones that spread like wildfire over social media, either feature splashy, over-the-top headlines about the next thing that will kill you—or are a debunking of such stories, which is becoming a subspecialty of health and science journalism in its own right.
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The website has positioned itself at the forefront of separating the truth from fiction: Its team has posted hundreds of articles since the outbreak started, debunking stories about vodka acting as a homemade replacement for hand sanitizer, stores issuing recalls for their toilet paper, and a cattle vaccine being effective in treating coronavirus patients, to name a few.
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The special counsel's report confirmed this week that Seth Rich, a young Democratic National Committee employee whose unsolved killing became grist for a right-wing conspiracy theory, was not the source of thousands of internal D.N.C. emails that WikiLeaks released during the 2016 presidential race, officially debunking a notion that had persisted without support for years.
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NOAA's Hurricane research division maintains a whole list debunking methods like seeding storms with silver iodide or hydroscopic particles, putting stuff on the surface of the ocean to prevent evaporation, cooling the surface of the water with icebergs and harnessing the energy of a storm to at least, you know, get something out of Mother Nature's wrath.
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Five years later, Thomas J. Brennan, now a tax professor at Harvard Law School, published a paper debunking those figures, arguing that of every dollar brought home among the top 20 companies, 72 cents were deployed for permissible uses, including 49 cents on acquisitions, 10 cents on debt reduction and 9 cents on research and development.
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My own research resulted in a habit of mind I've carried with me all these years, swinging between a creeping horror at all the unsettling supernatural realities most adults are too thick-headed to even acknowledge, and that feeling that comes after a good debunking — a mixture of emotional comfort, intellectual pleasure and condescending pity aimed at the still benighted myth-believers.
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In the adjacent glass vitrine, a particularly memorable grouping of eroticized sculptures shows studies for "The Gates of Hell," while the far side of the gallery space focuses on heads and portraits, concluding with a video on the inner workings of Rodin's studio and his numerous assistants, in a sense debunking the myth of the solitary artist as sole creator.
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"Each year we celebrate a man whom we have not come to understand," says Baldwin, a professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and author of the forthcoming book, "Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King, Jr." Consider what follows as "mythbusting MLK," a debunking of the five most persistent misperceptions about the civil rights leader.
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The pile-on keeps happening because Goop keeps making claims that beg for debunking: from bogus "energy healing" stickers purported to be made from the same material as spacesuits (they're not) to the claim that negative emotions can spoil your drinking water (nope) to the never-ending obsession with "detoxing" the body (which if you're not a heroin addict you don't need).
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The Reuters Fact Check team is examining social media content closely in order to track viral claims made by users in the U.S. and now also in the U.K. By verifying or debunking these claims, we hope to play our role, aimed at the public's interest, in reducing the rate at which inaccurate and potentially harmful posts are being shared at this time.
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Tony Szamboti, a mechanical engineer, JFK assassination conspiracy theorist, and longtime AE911Truth foot soldier, has been the most prominent truther in the trenches, battling giddy debunkers on the International Skeptics Forum (a science-centered discussion board that grew out of the James Randi Educational Forum, which often focuses on debunking hoaxes, conspiracies, and popular myths) and attempting to salvage the time he invested in a battered ideology.
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In a paper in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, two psychology trivia buffs selected 78 published psychology papers from unlikely authors, from a 1784 report by Benjamin Franklin and others — on the fantastical claims of the physician Franz Mesmer about animal magnetism and what would become known as hypnotism — through a physicist's 2013 debunking of a proposed "optimal ratio" of positive to negative emotions.
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In THE FEARLESS BAKER: Simple Secrets for Baking Like a Pro (Rux Martin / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30), Erin Jeanne McDowell tries to crack a few of the barriers that keep this sort of activity in a feminized category by debunking the idea that baking is rigid and unforgiving — as if female bakers need plenty of rules to succeed, even at such a modest level.
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Last summer, the two top expert bodies in the nation — the American College of Medical Toxicology and the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology — published a position statement debunking the tales that were reported in the press, noting in particular that none of the reported cases have appeared to resemble the constellation of symptoms we see and treat daily in cases of known opioid overdose.
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"If you look at the temperature map for the climate as a whole right now, the entire rest of the planet is warmer than the historical average with the exception of the Eastern United States and Canada, and the last three years — 18, 224 and 22013 — have been consecutively the warmest years on record," Adam Sobel, an atmospheric scientist, told CBS News when debunking Trump's latest global warming tweet.
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"When we do the debunking, a lot of times people just don't trust the debunk," said Leonardo Cazes, an editor working on the "Fato ou Fake" news literacy project with O Globo, a Brazilian newspaper... "People entered this election with a sense of hyperpolarization," said Roberta Braga, an associate director at the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank.
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Don't panic Debunking myths Coronavirus myths and misinformation, debunked Coronavirus fact-check: Separating fear from fact Masks can't stop the coronavirus in the US, but hysteria has led to bulk-buying, price-gouging and serious fear for the future How Fox News misled viewers about the coronavirus Fact check: Trump incorrectly suggests insurers will make coronavirus treatment free One dangerous coronavirus 'self-check test' is circulating on social media.
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" -- January 30 campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa Facts First: Trump was exaggerating the increase in South Korea's military payments to the US. As the New York Times reported in February when debunking an earlier version of Trump's "$500 million" claim: "Under the one-year deal, this year South Korea will pay 1.04 trillion won, or $925 million, an increase of $70 million from last year's $855 million.
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Under that theory, the various gifts break down as follows, as the myth-debunking website Snopes explained: 2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments 3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues 4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists 43 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch," which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
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Now, Germany's biggest far-right party thinks it has a chance to capitalize on the anti-immigrant anger in the eastern parts of the country For today's group chat, World editor Miriam elder talks to debunking reporter Ishmael Daro and world correspondent Lester Feder about the fake news that sparked real protests and how allegations the the Alternatives for Germany party is tied to Nazis may help them win in upcoming elections.
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At the same time, I was talking to a lot of doctors for work, and kept hearing that they had to spend so much time in clinics debunking things Oz said or sorting through dozens of supplements patients were using because of Oz. And so I looked at the evidence behind Oz's claims, and I found that often the evidence contradicted him, or what he said wasn't rooted in research at all.
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The sheer depth and availability of data in the digital era supports faster-than-ever evidence-based debunking of official fictions, threatening to erode rogue regimes built on lies by pulling away the curtain that invests their leaders with power in the first place — by implying the scope and range of their capacity and competency is unknowable, and letting other players on the world stage accept such a 'leader' at face value.
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According to Heron Greenesmith, who studies the modern gender-critical movement as a senior research associate with the social justice think tank Political Research Associates, gender-critical feminism in the UK grew out of a toxic mix of historical imperialism and the influence of the broader UK skeptical movement in the early aughts — which was hyper-focused on debunking "junk science" and any idea that considered sociological and historical influence and not just biology.
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According to Heron Greenesmith, who studies the modern gender-critical movement as a senior research associate at the social-justice think tank Political Research Associates, gender-critical feminism in the UK grew out of a toxic mix of historical imperialism and the influence of the broader skeptical movement in the early aughts — which was hyperfocused on debunking "junk science" and any idea that considered sociological and historical influence and not just biology.
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In Soloman's directorial debut, which premiered in 2015 at the New York Film Festival, we watch Bill as he investigates the original newspaper story, debunking the myth that no one called the police or tried to help Kitty; among other things, he makes a bittersweet discovery that Kitty wasn't alone in her final moments — a friend and neighbor named Sophia Farrar came upon Kitty during the attack in the stairwell, cradling her bleeding body until the end.
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Conservatives might not have openly doubted Ford's story — a level of respect we might not have witnessed before #MeToo — but in the end, some of the justifications they offered echoed all the same old clichés that women have spent the past year or more debunking: that social sanctions against someone should be applied only if their accusers meet criminal standards of proof; that sexual assault is always an unknowable matter of he said, she said; that what happened 240 years ago doesn't matter.
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So gender fluid it's soggy, the 128-page issue might well have been themed "No Masculinity," with its androgynous cover image of Pharrell Williams looking like an inverted tulip in a floor-length yellow Moncler Pierpaolo Piccioli coat, followed by ruminations on the "weaponized" male body by Thomas Page McBee, a transgender writer and boxer; a defense of makeup for men by EJ Johnson, Magic Johnson's son whose fashion tastes run toward fur shawls and diamond chokers; and a debunking of the power of testosterone itself by Katrina Karkazis, a cultural anthropologist and author.
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