Word: debunks
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...order to address the great dearth of understanding regarding the Midwest, I have taken it upon myself to share a bit about my native culture so that you all will be better equipped to make accurate judgements about my brethren in the future. Hopefully, I can debunk a few misconceptions and also point out a few interesting pieces of information. The following is a guide to Midwest fact and fiction...
...particularly law enforcement officials, groused that the sustained high alert level was driven mainly by subjective judgments from CIA analysts - who, unlike the FBI and its friends in local law enforcement, didn't have to bear any of the costs of the heightened state of alert. "You can't debunk (the CIA assessments), said one lawman. "(They're) all so vague...
...maintain than a conscripted army. Its soldiers are also more motivated "because they volunteered," says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. On the eve of war, the Pentagon "is horrified at Mr. Rangel's suggestion," says a senior Defense official, and has rolled out pages of statistics to try to debunk Rangel's claim that minorities and the poor bear the risks unfairly. Blacks make up 21% of the enlisted military force, compared with 12% in the general population. But these recruits "tend to be concentrated in administrative and support jobs, not combat jobs," says a Pentagon report released after Rangel introduced...
Pinker’s most recent book, The Blank Slate, was a bestseller. In the book, he attempted to debunk the well-known idea that we are born as “blank slates...
...criticizes the BGLTSA’s “refusal to engage the substance of Pappin’s argument” and implies that the BGLTSA is either insufficiently industrious or insufficiently clever to marshal a counterattack. While we are touched by Smith’s alacrity to debunk Pappin himself, our “refusal to engage the substance of Pappin’s argument” reflects the fact that Pappin’s homophobia is not an argument, it is an article of faith. For the BGLTSA to list our top ten reasons why queer students...