Word: debunkers
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...might not be the Turin Shroud, but as far as myths go, this was a big one to debunk. On April 5, a French research team declared that the alleged remains of St. Joan of Arc were fake. The relics of the iconic saint - burned alive for heresy and witchcraft in 1431 but rehabilitated as a French hero in the 19th century - have been identified as the remnants of an Egyptian mummy, a small cat and scraps of wood...
...Folklorist and quilt historian Laurel Horton, who has lectured and published papers about the quilt code, says she's given up on trying to debunk the myth. Instead, she says she's more interested on focusing on why the story continues to persist. "This whole issue made me realize it's not a matter of one group having the truth and another not. It's matter of two different sets of beliefs. It's made me realize that belief doesn't have a lot to do with factual representation. People feel in their gut that it's true...
...where there wasn't one." A lot of these men and women in offices are making a great living, but when they leave their cubicle, their desk doesn't look any different than it did in the morning. A little dirt is good. What I try to do is debunk a lot of the platitudes. Like "work smart instead of hard." It makes good sense on the surface but if you don't work hard, who cares how smart...
...behavior. It is disheartening and sickening that today in America some children are still being taught that going to Yale is a good thing. Decades of empirical data have revealed this idea for what it is: a damaging, destructive lie. As the enlightened, it is our sacred duty to debunk this myth wherever it occurs. Do not ignore those who spew this falsehood, but confront them with the truth—not their version of the truth warped by false lux but true veritas. A child’s future is at stake. Education is the best vaccination...
...said he isn’t irked by the frequent attacks on Harvard. In an e-mail to The Crimson, Bok recalled a recent newsmagazine cover story that tried to debunk the Ivy League’s mystique...