How Vaccination Rumours Spread Online: Tracing the Dissemination of Information Regarding Adverse Events of COVID-19 Vaccines by Tauel Harper, Katie Attwell

“…While some cases illustrate that social media networks can synthesise and amplify rumours about adverse events, traditional media coverage remains crucial as a forum for exploring and debunking spurious claims.Conclusion: Traditional media stories still bear signficant responsibility as credibility markers for rumours about vaccine adverse events. …”
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The U.S. and the UK in the United Nations: The Impact of the Special Relationship (2001 – 2017) by A. O. Mamedova

“…-UK cooperation in the UN reveals its ambiguous nature, but it does not serve to debunk the myth of the special relationship. The cooperation is largely pragmatic.…”
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The Domestic Sphere in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961): The Home Mirrors the World. by Arunima Dey

“…In this context, the article examines how by focussing on the domestic sphere of home as a microcosmic reflexion of the socio-political changes happening in the country, Hosain reveals that both the private and the public are closely interlinked, thereby debunking the notion that private space is outside of history. …”
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Soil and Water Conservation Capabilities of Vegetable Farmers on Micro-Veg Project Sites in Southwestern Nigeria by Ebunoluwa Oyindamola FANIYI, Olanike. F Deji, Dorcas Alabi, Justin Ijigbade

“…Based on the key findings of the study, it was recommended that integration of a gender perspective approach and gender policies that could bridge the gaps should be introduced as this will ensure female farmers unrestricted access to land and debunk the economic and socio-cultural factors responsible for this gap. …”
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“I think it was in poor taste that you were doing Murtaugh in whiteface” – Blackface goes West (and White) in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX, 2005-) by Sébastien Lefait

“…In these films within the series, the blackface tradition evolves to debunk other stereotypes than those it traditionally targets. …”
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Polariser l'écart : la mise en scène du décalage dans Fram de Tony Harrison by Catherine Lanone

“…Harrison revisits the Arctic myth, debunking heroic codes, yet using the Arctic as a fitting metaphor to raise historical and contemporary ethical questions, leading from the tragic mask to the Fram, an emblem of tolerance and survival.…”
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Developing Misinformation Immunity: How to Reason-Check Fallacious News in a Human–Computer Interaction Environment by Elena Musi, Elinor Carmi, Chris Reed, Simeon Yates, Kay O’Halloran

“…To counter the fake news phenomenon, the scholarly community has attempted to debunk and prebunk disinformation. However, misinformation still constitutes a major challenge due to the variety of misleading techniques and their continuous updates which call for the exercise of critical thinking to build resilience. …”
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Exploring the capability of MS EXCEL for constructing bias-corrected and accelerated (BCA) bootstrap confidence intervals to aid in decision-making during an emergency by Sudeepta Pran Baruah

“…It was found that by creating suitable macros a BCA bootstrap confidence interval can be seamlessly created on any data using EXCEL. The paper thus debunks the popular notion that BCA bootstrap cannot be peformed in EXCEL owing to a lack of in-built functions. …”
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The many obstacles to effective giving by Lucius Caviola, Stefan Schubert, Jason Nemirow

“…Similarly, they are unfamiliar with the most effective charities (Studies 2a, 2b). Debunking these misconceptions and informing people about the most effective charities make them donate more effectively. …”
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Soil and Water Conservation Capabilities of Vegetable Farmers on Micro-Veg Project Sites in Southwestern Nigeria by Ebunoluwa Oyindamola FANIYI, Olanike. F Deji, Dorcas Alabi, Justin Ijigbade

“…Based on the key findings of the study, it was recommended that integration of a gender perspective approach and gender policies that could bridge the gaps should be introduced as this will ensure female farmers unrestricted access to land and debunk the economic and socio-cultural factors responsible for this gap. …”
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“Big Bang o Altro” by Stefano Maria Casella

“…His style,  linguistic register and lexicon are deliberately lower; the tone more colloquial and ordinary, ironic, irreverent, debunking, and light-hearted (unlike the higher seriousness of his first three collections Ossi-Occasioni-Bufera). …”
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Attentive immobility: Investigating the emotional-cognitive mechanism underlying conspiracy mentality and Covid-19 preventive behaviors. by Shuguang Zhao, Jue Zhou, Ting Wang

“…These findings underscore the importance of debunking initiatives that aim to address and mitigate the negative consequences of conspiracy mentality by targeting the mediating psychological processes during future pandemic threats.…”
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Population Aging as the Social Body in Representation and Real Life by Alexandra Crampton

“…The construction of old age within this discourse is then compared with ethnographic research that suggests this construct leaves out much of the lived experience familiar to anthropologists of aging.  Rather than debunk the old age construct, however, the purpose of this article is to argue for study of population aging discourse as constituting a social body reflecting cultural constructions of nature and society.  …”
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Elusive trade-off: The solution to energy poverty and GHG emissions in Africa by Mekobe Ajebe

“…Notably, the study challenges conventional wisdom by debunking the direct influence of financial development and foreign direct investment on energy poverty and emissions. …”
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An ecofeminist approach to rape culture in contemporary novels by Li, Xiaoshi

“…Both texts challenge kyriarchy, which is the interlocking matrix of all hierarchies including those of gender, species and social class, by debunking the historical subordination of both females as the second sex and the natural world as a resource for human use. …”
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Boundaries Not Drawn: Mapping the institutional roots of the global fact-checking movement by Graves, L

“…The last five years have seen a global surge in political fact-checking, reporting that specializes in debunking political misinformation. A growing occupational movement, originating in the United States but increasingly international in scope, has sought to legitimize fact-checking as unbiased journalism, to establish common standards and practices, and to secure reliable funding for this emerging genre. …”

Knowledge versus experience: indicator to good journalism practices by Awan Ismail, Rizalawati Ismail

“…The findings also acknowledged that journalism knowledge is as important as experience and debunked the old testimony that knowledge can be practiced on the job and no formal journalism education is needed. …”
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Race: How the Post-Genomic Era Has Unmasked a Misconception Promoted by Healthcare by Donna Schaare, Ludovico Abenavoli, Luigi Boccuto

“…The term “race” has been employed to categorize human beings into distinct groups based on some perceived biological distinctions. This concept was debunked with the completion of the Human Genome Project and its revolutionary findings that all humans are >99% genetically identical, subsequently making the term “race” obsolete. …”
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Thirst for Apocalyptic Whirlwinds and Creating a New World: Russian Literature of the 20th Century from the Silver Age to the Soviet Years Aesthetics by Vadim V. Polonsky

“…It rehabilitated a central meta-hero of great Russian classical literature, “a little person” debunked by Modernism.…”
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COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout: Aspects of Acceptability in South Africa by Bent Steenberg, Nellie Myburgh, Andile Sokani, Nonhlanhla Ngwenya, Portia Mutevedzi, Shabir A. Madhi

“…Appropriate mediazation alongside a debunking of counterfactual claims is crucial in driving forward immunization.…”
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