The first myth to be debunked is that Pompeii was a sister city to Sodom and Gommorah.
The pesticide alarmism was debunked in July by an independent, peer-reviewed study by researchers at the University of California Davis.
Glen Stansberry also did a terrific post on OPEN Forum called 6 Google Myths Debunked that is worth reading.
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This is just one of the myths debunked in the article overleaf which inaugurates this, the International Year of Water Cooperation.
It debunked the common notion that it takes a long time to tell whether a new school can improve student learning.
Much of her recent work at Stanford University has debunked stereotypes about how older people are uniformly slow, cranky and mentally impaired.
"Seminar" publisher Singh debunked the general view that the outcome will be a close call, saying that the anti-incumbency factor is overstated.
That elusive concept that in sports many scientists have debunked many times.
The wisdom of this plan has yet to be demonstrated or debunked.
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The paper was debunked in a wide-variety of scholarly journals, by the Department of Energy, and even criticized by some environmental groups.
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While a reasonable argument, Bernanke debunked it by citing the case of European PIIGS, where a loss of confidence led to spiking yields.
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One summer beauty myth debunked: Just because your tinted moisturizer or foundation boasts an SPF does not mean you're scot-free to hit the beach.
He got out of the way and hopes the charity, which was built on his debunked fairy tale legacy, can carry on without him.
More memorable perhaps than the research reported in April which debunked conventional wisdom about how drinking eight glasses of water a day keeps you healthy.
False information can spread fast, but it can be quickly debunked.
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, involving since-debunked claims that Bendectin causes birth defects.
While he said he didn't know whether the now-debunked storyline helped him place second in Heisman Trophy voting, he insisted his emotions surrounding Kekua's loss were authentic.
Fracturing proponents have struggled to gain the high ground in the debate on water quality, even as they debunked the myths time and again with facts and data.
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Sayre's theories were later debunked, but not before being widely picked up in other English-speaking countries, in particular in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Gollaher says.
Though recent scholarship has debunked many of those myths, the crisis is a goodie bag from which politicians and policy-makers grab whatever lesson they need at the moment.
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Iraqi Scud attacks, however, clearly debunked the central theses of ABM Treaty devotees, namely that being undefended was better than being defended and that only a "perfect" defense would be acceptable.
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Similarly, claims that the Monday of the last full week of January - dubbed "blue Monday" - is the most depressing of the whole year have been debunked by others.
Recent investigations have either called several of Stump's assertions about Cobb into question or debunked them outright, including the allegation that Cobb beat a man to death in Detroit in 1912.
The myth of the solo entrepreneur has been debunked in a number of forums and it has become a point of general agreement that great ventures require successful teams to execute.
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These two excellent new books provide ample evidence of the chief benefits of such technology: man's ever-improving knowledge of such invisible nasties as viruses has debunked ignorant superstitions and eased the suffering of countless unfortunates.
Member shaliron over at Esato appears to have done some serious homework compiling a list of all known Sony Ericsson handsets in the pipeline, complete with nifty color coding to indicate verified, debunked, and new intelligence.
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