The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings by Pennycook, Gordon, Bear, Adam, Collins, Evan T., Rand, David Gertler

“…Together these results contest theories of motivated reasoning while identifying a potential challenge for the policy of using warning tags to fight misinformation—a challenge that is particularly concerning given that it is much easier to produce misinformation than it is to debunk it.…”
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Effects of low-powered RF sweep between 0.01-20 GHz on female Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes: A collective behaviour analysis by Poh, A.H., Moghavvemi, Mahmoud, Shafiei, M.M., Leong, C.S., Lau, Yee Ling, Adikan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd, Bakhtiari, M., Abdulla, M.A.

“…Several reviews were published in debunking these claims. However, there is a lack of a systematic study on effects of electromagnetic (EM) or more specifically, radio frequency (RF) waves against mosquitoes due to the conclusions made in those years. …”

Effects of low-powered RF sweep between 0.01-20 GHz on female Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes: a collective behaviour analysis by Poh, Abdul Halim, Moghavvemi, Mahmoud, Shafiei, M. M., Leong, C. S., Lau, Yee Ling, Adikan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd, Bakhtiari, Majid, Hassan, Mahmood Ameen Abdulla

“…Several reviews were published in debunking these claims. However, there is a lack of a systematic study on effects of electromagnetic (EM) or more specifically, radio frequency (RF) waves against mosquitoes due to the conclusions made in those years. …”
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A comparative study of eschatology in Christianity and African traditional religion by Emeka C. Ekeke, Ekpenyong O. Ekpenyong

“…African tradition religion (ATR) has been criticised for omitting eschatology in its belief system which this study debunks. This study showed that Christianity and ATR have the concept of eschatology and identified the main points of convergence and divergence in their eschatologies to demonstrate that ATR’s eschatology is well-established but different from Christianity’s. …”
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TnT (Transparency and Truth): a moment of truth for Switzerland? by Cédric Gumy, Pascal Diethelm

“…They proposed to develop Transparency and Truth (TnT), a measure aimed at debunking the actions of the tobacco and nicotine lobby to defend its commercial interests, and describing the mechanisms used to influence public health policy. …”
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The impact of vaccine information and other factors on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in the Thai population. by Hathairat Kosiyaporn, Chanikarn Netrpukdee, Nattanicha Pangkariya, Orana Chandrasiri, Viroj Tangcharoensathien

“…Finally, regular monitoring of misinformation is important such as fact checking support, timely legal actions and specific debunking communication.…”
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Stability Analysis of Support Anchor Bolt in the Process of Surrounding Rock Fracture Evolution by Juncai Cao, Nong Zhang, Liming Pi, Tieliang An, Shuchen Li, Enan CHi

“…If there is no friction resistance, when the axial force of the anchor bolt reaches the initial critical value, the interface debunking process will develop catastrophically and cannot be stabilized until complete failure, even if the axial force no longer increases.…”
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Oral Health Knowledge, Self-Assessed Oral Health Behavior, and Oral Hygiene Practices among the Adult General Population in Croatia by Antonija Tadin, Marija Badrov

“…To address this, targeted educational interventions focusing on comprehensive oral hygiene practices and debunking misconceptions should be prioritized in Croatia.…”
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To approach or to avoid: The quadripolar model of achievement motivation revisited in a Confucian-heritage context by Guan Ying Li, Bih-Jen Fwu, Tong-Rong Yang, Yi-Kai Chen

“…The results may help debunk the myth that learner characteristics in the CHCs are identical to those observed in the WEIRD contexts. …”
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No Intrinsic Decoherence of Inflationary Cosmological Perturbations by Jen-Tsung Hsiang, Bei-Lok Hu

“…A dominant view which had propagated for a quarter of a century asserts yes, based on the belief that the large squeezing of a quantum state after a duration of inflation renders the system effectively classical. This paper debunks this view by identifying the technical fault-lines in its derivations and revealing the pitfalls in its arguments which drew earlier authors to this wrong conclusion. …”
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Thinking of a human in the context of the memetic theory of religion: from the “image and likeness” to the “vehicle” by Ekaterina Khitruk

“…Blackmore, who asserts that the theory of memes finally and convincingly debunks both the religious ideas about the free and autonomous personality of God, who is responsible for the existence of the world, and the traditional ideas about the free and autonomous personality of man, who is responsible both for his own existence in general, and, in particular, for the morally significant decisions of their lives. …”
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“The Word for the New Year” by Archimandrite Anastasius (Alexandrov): Speech-Behavioral Analysis by A.Ju. Chernysheva

“…As a result of the study, groups have been singled out representing the speech-behavioral tactics of debunking the desire for wealth, pleasure, fame and power, fetish of knowledge, carnal attachments, as well as a group of such speech-behavioral tactics that appeal to faith in the God. …”
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The impact of vaccine information and other factors on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in the Thai population by Hathairat Kosiyaporn, Chanikarn Netrpukdee, Nattanicha Pangkariya, Orana Chandrasiri, Viroj Tangcharoensathien

“…Finally, regular monitoring of misinformation is important such as fact checking support, timely legal actions and specific debunking communication.…”
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Perceived Effectiveness of Radio Jingle in Combating the Spread of Corona Virus among Rural Dwellers in Ifo and Odeda Local Government Areas of Ogun State, Nigeria by Olajide, Rasak B, Alao Oyinlola Ruth, Akintunde Moruf Abiola Olaide

“…Benefits derived included debunking myths about the virus (𝑥̅ = 1.86±0.87) and improved personal hygiene (𝑥̅ = 1.65±0.70). …”
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Anti-Vaccination by Hüseyin Haydar KUTLU, Mustafa ALTINDİŞ

“…Although hundreds of studies have been conducted to debunk the allegations and medical authorities have concluded that vaccines are both necessary and safe, opponents of vaccination continue to use current technologies, such as the internet and social media, to influence people’s reliance on vaccination. …”
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The impact of control and mitigation strategies during the second wave of coronavirus infections in Spain and Italy by Marco De Nadai, Kristof Roomp, Bruno Lepri, Nuria Oliver

“…This finding emphasises the importance of deploying public-health communication campaigns to debunk misconceptions about SARS-CoV-2. Overall, our work illustrates the value of online citizen surveys to quickly and efficiently collect large-scale population data to support and evaluate policy decisions to combat the spread of infectious diseases, such as coronavirus.…”
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Exploring online oral health misinformation: a content analysis by Matheus LOTTO, Olivia Santana JORGE, Maria Aparecida de Andrade Moreira MACHADO, Thiago CRUVINEL

“…Nevertheless, Snopes has debunked only 5.9% of these content items. Therefore, misinformation was predominantly produced or disseminated by dental professionals mainly motivated by financial interests and usually linked to alternative/natural treatments. …”
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Dual-attention Network Model on Propagation Tree Structures for Rumor Detection by HAN Xueming, JIA Caiyan, LI Xuanya, ZHANG Pengfei

“…With the rapid development of social media and the popularity of mobile devices,the interaction between users has become more convenient.But at the same time,rumors on social media are more and more rampant,which brings hidden dangers to the public and social safety.In the real world,users often express their own opinions after observing other microblogs that have been posted,especially the context of the microblog to be replied.Although some existing rumor detection methods learn the propagation patterns on propagation trees of rumors to extract clues of user interrogation or factual evidences based on the principle of crowd wisdom,which greatly improves the performance of rumor detection,they only focus on those microblogs that have direct response relationships,and Lack of ability to fully mine the indirect and implicit relationships among microblogs in the process of rumor propagation.Therefore,in this paper,a node and path dual-attention network on propagation tree structures(DAN-Tree) for debunking rumors is proposed.First,the model uses the Transformer structure to fully learn the implicit semantic relationship between posts in the propagation path,and then uses the attention mechanism to perform weighted fusion to obtain the feature vector of the propagation path.Secondly,the path representation is weighted and aggregated by using the attention mechanism to obtain the representation vector of the whole propagation tree.In addition,the structure embedding method is used to learn the spatial location information of the post on the propagation tree,which realizes the effective fusion of the deep structure and semantic information in the rumor propagation structure.The effect of the DAN-Tree model is verified on four classic datasets.Experimental results show that the DAN-Tree model surpasses the best results of the existing literature on the three datasets:the accuracy of the Twitter15 and Twitter16 datasets increases by 1.81% and 2.39%,respectively,and the <i>F</i>₁ score of the PHEME dataset increases by 7.51%,which proves the effectiveness of DAN-Tree model.…”
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DeepFND: an ensemble-based deep learning approach for the optimization and improvement of fake news detection in digital platform by Venkatachalam K, Badriyya B. Al-onazi, Vladimir Simic, Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Chiranjibe Jana

“…People keep sharing false information even after it has been debunked. Those responsible for spreading misleading information in the first place should face the consequences, not the victims of their actions. …”
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INCLUSIÓN EDUCATIVA Y PEDAGOGÍA CRÍTICA EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY by Silvia Molina, Miranda Christou

“…Following the same line of thinking, the article provides<br />scientific evidence to debunk myths related to the education of disabled students; especially<br />myths that contributed to their exclusion from mainstream classrooms. …”
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