Staging the Arctic 1819–1909 and 2014 by Heidi Hansson

“…Their radical potential should not be overstated, however, since the historical meanings of the stereotypes even when they are being debunked. At least on stage, conventional images of the Arctic continue to dominate.…”
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Navigating the Credibility of Web-Based Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Mnemonics to Empower the Public to Spot Red Flags in Health Information on the Internet by Jessica Stokes-Parish

“…Evidence on misinformation largely focuses on understanding the psychology of misinformation and debunking strategies but neglects to explore critical thinking education for the general public. …”
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Prehistory and Ideology in Cold War Southeast Asia: The Politics of Wartime Archaeology in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1975 by Maurizio Peleggi

“…Archaeological discoveries in both countries debunked colonial archaeology’s account of prehistoric Southeast Asia as a passive recipient of Chinese cultural influence by documenting autonomous technological development. …”
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Ethical Dilemmas and Family History: A Psychological Approach by Susan M. Moore

“…Common dilemmas revolve around topics such as whether family secrets should be revealed or favourite stories debunked in light of the evidence, how the privacy of living relatives can be maintained when family histories are published, if the ‘sins of the fathers’ require reparation (and how this might be possible), and to what extent is it acceptable to romanticise or ‘whitewash’ one’s ancestral story. …”
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Donor text in the mirror of psychoanalysis (Petrushevskaja and Chekhov) by Ludmiła Safronowa

“…It is also an element of debunking and correction of Chekhov’s concept from the standpoint of the Oedipus complex. …”
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Agnès Varda: filming the Black Panthers's Struggle by Delphine Letort

“…This article compares the aesthetic and political discourse of the two documentaries: from the observational mode of Huey to the expository mode of Black Panthers, the filmmaker strives to debunk the portrayal of the Panthers, who were framed as a menace in the media. …”
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Mind the Gap: Creative Writing Comes to France by Charles HOLDEFER

“…This cliché is ripe for debunking. Scholars frequently refer to their passion for a subject and their quest to make an original contribution. …”
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An Elementary Proof That Everett’s Quantum Multiverse Is Nonlocal: Bell-Locality and Branch-Symmetry in the Many-Worlds Interpretation by Aurélien Drezet

“…Here, we show that this is not the case and debunk the contradictions by analyzing in detail the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) nonlocality theorem. …”
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Promoting conspiracy theory: From AIDS to COVID-19 by Nicoli Nattrass

“…Pro-science activists sought to counter medical misinformation and debunk faux cures, but their task was harder in the ‘post-truth’ social-media driven context of COVID-19. …”
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The Challenge of Nissology: A Global Outlook on the World Archipelago Part I: Scene Setting the World Archipelago by Christian Depraetere

“…One major objective for nissology - defined as the study of islands and islandness - in the 21st century should be to debunk the unfair prejudice that island studies’continues to suffer at present time. …”
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Entrepreneurship, Tuvalu, Development and .tv: A Response by James M. Conway

“…To examine this, I briefly review the early years of .tv, the government’s administration of .tv, the actual impact of .tv income, and the numerical weight of .tv income compared with other sources of government revenue. I debunk several .tv-related myths and explore the media’s enduring .tv attraction. …”
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Understanding Smallholder Access to Finance by Gralla, Erica, Blair, Courtney, Wetmore, Finley

“…Overlaying diverse data sets on a depiction of causal pathways was critical to noticing and “debunking” this commonly held assumption. The map could further be used to identify barriers to change and potential areas for investment, both of which serve to generate actionable recommendations for development practitioners to achieve various key system outcomes.…”
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Evolved cognitive biases and the epistemic status of scientific beliefs by de Cruz, H, de Smedt, J

“…The conclusions one draws from applying evolutionary theory to scientific beliefs depend to an important extent on the validity of evolutionary arguments (EAs) or evolutionary debunking arguments (EDAs). In this paper we show through an analytical model that cultural transmission of scientific knowledge can lead toward representations that are more truth-approximating or more efficient at solving science-related problems under a broad range of circumstances, even under conditions where human cognitive faculties would be further off the mark than they actually are. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.…”

Literature as leverage to peace and sustainable development in the african context by Komla M. AVONO & Fo-Koku D. WOAMENO

“…Most set aside is art, mainly literature, which is allegedly deemed less influential than other scientific fields of study. Debunking such a tenet and zooming in on Ernest Hemingway, this essay uses meta- and neo-criticism to exhibit the unchallengeable role literature could play in securing peace and sustainable development in the African context. …”
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Gender Pay Gap: Is It Just a Gender Thing? by Irka WIJAYA, Anggara WISESA

“…Therefore, this paper took several different perspectives on debunking the gender pay gap and constructing the possible reality of the gender pay gap, using systematic literature review and critical reflection. …”
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The Neuromyth of learning styles by Maria Vitória Vieira da Nóbrega, Natasha da Silva Melo, João Paulo Cunha de Menezes

“…Therefore, it is necessary to debunk this neuromyth in the academic environment by integrating the study of neuroscience and educational neuromyths into initial teacher education through courses, research projects, and extension activities. …”
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Is the mainstream construction of mood disorders resistant to systemic thinking? by Lisa C. Fellin, Ekaterina Zizevskaia, Laura Galbusera

“…Despite the increasing criticism and lack of evidence, the debunked chemical imbalance theory of the etiology of depression still dominates the professional and pop/folk understanding and interventions.MethodsWe analysed the breadth of the inference field and the type of etiopathogenetic contents of the explanations of mood disorders using the “1to3” Coding System.ResultsOur findings show that the dominant explanations draw almost exclusively onto monadic explanations, followed by limited dyadic ones. …”
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Beyond challenges and viral dance moves: TikTok as a vehicle for disinformation and fact-checking in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and the USA by Nadia Alonso-López, Pavel Sidorenko-Bautista, Fábio Giacomelli

“…The results suggest that due to its characteristics as a fresh, visual network with easily shareable and viral content, TikTok is a network that facilitates the spread of disinformation, but which in turn is a tool for debunking hoaxes beyond the range of action of conventional media.…”
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The Crisis of Liberal International Order and The Western Imperialism by Annisa Dina Amalia, Jamaliah Jamaliah, Elyta Elyta

“… Many International Relations scholars are interested in debunking the international order. For decades, it has been widely accepted that the world is ruled by liberal order led by Western power, notably the United States. …”
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Economists are the cheerleaders of finance - Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, London, Allen Lane, 2018, 384 pp., £14.99 (pbk), I... by David Hollanders

“…This, however, is not a purely intellectual exercise; Mazzucato seeks to influence public debate, stating that “only by debunking ideas about value … can a long-lasting solution be found” (213), the problem being that what the financial sector, pharmaceutical companies, and national account statisticians call ‘value creation’ is in fact typically the opposite.…”
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