Monkeypox, Disinformation, and Fact-Checking: A Review of Ten Iberoamerican Countries in the Context of Public Health Emergency by Noemí Morejón-Llamas, F. J. Cristòfol

“…The countries with the highest number of debunkings are Spain and Bolivia, with two verification agencies, Maldita and Bolivia Verifica. …”
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Emotional and Mental Nuances and Technological Approaches: Optimising Fact-Check Dissemination through Cognitive Reinforcement Technique by Francisco S. Marcondes, Maria Araújo Barbosa, Adelino de C. O. S. Gala, José João Almeida, Paulo Novais

“…The issue of the dissemination of fake news has been widely addressed in the literature, but the issue of the dissemination of fact checks to debunk fake news has not received sufficient attention. …”
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Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters and Cultural Values by Leonard Shedletsky

“…Calling bullshit fits well with using the heuristics of like/not like and cognitive mechanisms of debunking misinformation.…”
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Ancestry Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Back on the Frontier of Racism by Ann H. Ross, Shanna E. Williams

“…Its use is controversial because the biological race concept was debunked by scientists decades ago. However, many forensic anthropologists contend, in part, that because social race categories used by law enforcement can be predicted by cranial variation, ancestry remains a necessary parameter for estimation. …”
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A philosophical guide to chance / by Handfield, Toby

The language myth : why language is not an instinct / by Evans, Vyvyan, author

“…In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other animal forms of communication; that languages exhibit staggering diversity; that we learn our mother tongue drawing on general properties and abilities of the human mind, rather than an inborn 'universal' grammar; and that, ultimately, language and the mind reflect and draw upon the way we interact with others in the world. …”

“ALL THAT MAY BECOME A MAN”: MACBETH AND THE BREAKDOWN OF THE HEROIC MODEL by Lucia Folena

“…While initially appearing to conform to the traditional epic representation of war as a duel between Good and Evil, or Right and Wrong, Macbeth — a couple of centuries before a similar debunking takes place in the novel — ends up deconstructing this neat, unrealistic model and suggesting that all war is chaos and that ancient, inherited values such as heroism and honour are not sufficient to preserve communities from falling into confusion and destruction.…”
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Medieval Monasticism in Iceland and Norse Greenland by Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir

“…The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the monastic houses operated on the northernmost periphery of Roman Catholic Europe during the Middle Ages. The intention is to debunk the long-held theory of Iceland and Norse Greenland’s supposed isolation from the rest of the world, as it is clear that medieval monasticism reached both of these societies, just as it reached their counterparts elsewhere in the North Atlantic. …”
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Correcting vaccine misinformation: A failure to replicate familiarity or fear-driven backfire effects. by Ullrich K H Ecker, Caitlin X M Sharkey, Briony Swire-Thompson

“…It has been argued that correction effectiveness is reduced if the correction repeats the to-be-debunked misinformation, thereby boosting its familiarity. …”
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“It is Necessary to Understand That a Poet May Not Exist”: The Case of Ern Malley by Tijana Parezanović

“…Their main purpose was to debunk modernist poetry as meaningless babble, but what they actually succeeded in doing, as this paper aims to show, was advancing Australian literature beyond modernism into the kind of poetry that stylistically and thematically could be described as postmodern, and thus debunking not only the Angry Penguins’ writing, but their own traditionalist verse as well.…”
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Reformed epistemology and naturalistic explanations of religious belief: an inquiry into the epistemological implications of the cognitive science of religion by Baker-Hytch, M

“…Subsequently, I attempt to find a better such argument. The strongest debunking argument, I contend, is one that focuses upon the diverse and mutually inconsistent outputs of the religious belief-producing mechanisms described by CSR. …”

Food and Fitness: Myths and Truths by Linda B. Bobroff, Amy Mullins

“…This revised 6-page fact sheet debunks some common myths about nutrition and fitness and offers other helpful advice for those who wish to stay active and eat a healthy diet. …”
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“A Hollow Sham”: The Representation of War in Bernard Shaw’s Victorian Plays by Stéphane Guy

“…In his plays, comedy and derision debunk the warped view of fighting that flows from ideals, the thirst for revenge and an incompetent ruling class. …”
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L’image pour déconstruire l’imaginaire à la frontière entre le Tadjikistan et l’Afghanistan by Mélanie Sadozaï

“…This combination of ethnographic methods allows for the elaboration of the narrative depicting a resource-producing border which debunks that of a perceived dangerous border. Images thus become the methodological basis of a written argument.…”
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Alternative discourses in Southeast Asia by Syed Farid Alatas

“…Alternative discourses are works that attempt to debunk ideas that have become entrenched in the social sciences, partly as a result of colonialism and the continuing Eurocentrism in the social sciences. …”
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Shakespeare, the Father of English? A Review of the Vocabulary Question by Iolanda Plescia

“…Among the many ways in which Shakespeare has been considered a ‘father’ of English culture, the idea that he contributed a vast number of neologisms and idiomatic expressions to the language is one of the hardest to debunk. Challenged by a number of specialists in recent years, this notion is still alive and well in the digital age, appearing time and time again online and in some important scholarly sources. …”
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Addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A content analysis of government social media platforms in England and Italy during 2020–2021 by Giulia Sesa, Katarzyna Czabanowska, Antonio Giangreco, John Middleton

“…Posts addressing VH (62.7%) focused on encouraging vaccination (37.3%), describing the benefits of vaccines (17.3%), debunking myths (4.5%), and communication campaigns (3.6%). …”
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The Good and Bad Legacies of Forensic Odontology by C. Michael Bowers

“…This paper is a brief look into how bitemark comparisons contributed to 34 of these miscarriages of justice and, due to compelling research and legal analysis, they have now been debunked via numerous scientific reviewing agencies and legal authorities in the United States (US).…”
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The Monsters of Suburbia: Black Hole and the Mystique of the Pacific Northwest by Fiorenzo Iuliano

“…Black Hole positions itself among the texts that reshaped Northwestern culture in the 1990s, and addresses the social and urban changes that, over two decades, have affected the whole area in which its story is set. In so doing, it debunks both the myth of the Pacific Northwest as the American “Ecotopia,” and, by featuring adolescents as protagonists, common stereotypes associated to youth.…”
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Toward a Grotkean Pedagogy: Teacher as Political by Sean Cameron Golden

“…This article narrowly focuses on specific political choices made inside the classroom and debunks the myth that a teacher should be politically neutral in the classroom.  …”
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