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Snopes aims to debunk or confirm widely spread urban legends. The site has been referenced by news media and other sites, including CNN, [40] MSNBC, [41] Fortune, Forbes, and The New York Times. [42] By March 2009, the site had more than six million visitors per month. [43] David Mikkelson ran the website from his home in Tacoma, Washington. [44]
By distinguishing facts from fiction, we can better understand how generative AI and other AI systems are able to help us work, live, and play in new ways. Upwork 9 AI myths, debunked
Myth (cancer only affects the elderly) Age of highest incidence of testicular cancer is from puberty to about 40 years old. Guys should check their junk once a month. Image credits: gjunon
Snopes: focuses on, but is not limited to, validating and debunking urban legends and other stories in American popular culture. RealClearPolitics's Fact Check Review: aspires to offer quaternary-level critiquing of such tertiary-level efforts at fact-checking as those listed above.
The debunk? This is a matter of camera settings. Apollo astronauts had to set the cameras they used — these Hasselblad 500ELs — to properly expose the environment and the work they were doing.
The myth that Columbus proved the Earth was round was propagated by authors like Washington Irving in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Columbus was not the first European to visit the Americas: Leif Erikson , and possibly other Vikings before him, explored Vinland , an area of coastal North America.
The segment features two Mississippi residents promoting the myth: a “paranormal researcher” named Paula Westbrook and Don Estes, a former director of the Natchez city cemetery.
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts is a non-fiction book published by Hearst Communications, Inc. on August 15, 2006. The book is based on the article "9/11: Debunking the Myths" in the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics [1] and is written by David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, responding to various 9/11 conspiracy theories.