Word: debunked
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...that doesn’t stop him from trying to help others gain entrance to the College. Rein, who is half-Chinese, is finishing a book tentatively titled Xiao Shan’s Guide on How to Get Into Harvard. Targeted at students in China, the book promises to debunk the myths harbored in China about the Harvard admissions process...
...whims of “Big Oil,” it may seem an enticing argument. Unfortunately, it is logically backward. Given that Hussein’s full compliance with U.N. weapons inspectors is implausible—making a confrontation exceedingly likely—it would be useful to debunk this “No Blood For Oil” myth once...
...fact, Harvard has set up a page on its website that recounts the legend—specifically to debunk it. Eliot did meet with the Stanfords, but only to encourage them on their quest to start a West Coast academic institution and to help them draw up a list of what would be needed...
Gould led arguments against scientific claims that IQ varies between races for genetic reasons. His 1982 book The Mismeasure of Man, which tried to debunk claims that IQ and race were linked, won the National Book Critics Circle Award...
...Investigators recruited Littleton's ex-wife, Mary Baker, to wear a recording device and lie to Littleton, saying he had told her he was the murderer during a drunken blackout. Prosecutors fought to suppress the testimony but Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed most of it. Attempting to debunk Littleton's "confession", Benedict yesterday had Baker read a 98-page transcript of the hotel room conversation, in which Littleton repeatedly denies he killed Moxley...