debunking

Politics is about perception and confirming or debunking deeply held beliefs (whether or not those beliefs are factually based).

He has spent, by his own reckoning, almost half his career tracking down and debunking conspiracy theories.

Instead, she falls back on the idea—ostensibly outdated, but if she really believed it were, would debunking it yield an article?

But the article itself contained the seeds of its own debunking.

On May 20, 1894, the Times set about debunking some of these myths.