debunking

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1. debunking - Noun

2. debunking - Verb

Meaning

the exposure of falseness or pretensions

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The radical empiricist onslaught ... provides the methodological justification for the debunking of the mind by the intellectuals-a positivism which, in its denial of the transcending elements of Reason, forms the academic counterpart of the socially required behavior. Herbert Marcuse

The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. Henry Rollins

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. Martin Gardner

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. Thomas Sowell

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad. Martin Gardner

the debunking of religion has been too successful Source: Internet

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