debunk

The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.

debunk a theory

We began to debunk, with the aid of such Bowdlerisations of Freud as now trickled though, human motive, and learned to diagnose our mental discomforts as repressions and inhibitions—an accomplishment

Mr. Ndou says he tries to debunk many of the boys' myths, like a commonly held one that the lubrication on condoms contains worms.

Above all, Tom wants to debunk clichés.