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  2. Debunker - Wikipedia

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    A debunker is a person or organization that exposes or discredits claims believed to be false, exaggerated, or pretentious. [1] The term is often associated with skeptical investigation of controversial topics such as UFOs, claimed paranormal phenomena, cryptids, conspiracy theories, alternative medicine, religion, exploratory or fringe areas of scientific, or pseudoscientific research.

  3. Template:Essay-like - Wikipedia

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    Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Month and year date The month and ...

  4. 2010 conservatism-psychoticism correlation error - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, Steven G. Ludeke, a Ph.D. psychology student, spotted that the direction of the claimed correlation in the 2010 and 2012 papers contradicted both prior research and common sense; a positive correlation would mean that compared to liberals, conservatives are more drug-friendly, care less about cleanliness, and disdain society’s ...

  5. Argument from ignorance - Wikipedia

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    There is a debate over whether the argument from ignorance is always fallacious. It is generally accepted that there are only special circumstances in which this argument may not be fallacious. For example, with the presumption of innocence in legal cases, it would make sense to argue: [5] It has not been proven that the defendant is guilty.

  6. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False - Wikipedia

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    The PDF of the essay paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" is a 2005 essay written by John Ioannidis, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, and published in PLOS Medicine. [1] It is considered foundational to the field of metascience.

  7. Brandolini's law - Wikipedia

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    Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place.

  8. Template:Essay - Wikipedia

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    Userspace essays should remain categorized in Category:User essays or one of its subcategories with this template. Essays are sorted by their page name, or in userspace by subpage name. If you want to use a different category sort, you can specify an entire category link with a sort key: |cat=[[Category:User essays on style|Comprise, Use of]]‎

  9. Repressed memory - Wikipedia

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    Clinical psychologist Richard McNally stated: "The notion that traumatic events can be repressed and later recovered is the most pernicious bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and psychiatry. It has provided the theoretical basis for 'recovered memory therapy'—the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy era."