It would certainly help if the retrovirology community could join forces with the patient community in ensuring that daft papers like today's Wellcome paper are quickly debunked, and biological studies do not keep being artificially marked down to disqualify them from funding.

However this rumor was quickly debunked by Hanks.

Both claims were quickly debunked.

Beth Twitty's attorney, John Q. Kelly, told ABC News that he had little faith that the supposed evidence would prove pivotal to the case and suggested that it would be quickly debunked.

The rumor started on Facebook with a fake BBC report stating that the musician died in her hotel room, but it was quickly debunked.

However, this rumor of the Giancana relation was quickly debunked after his sister Fran wrote to Krassner after the publication of his autobiography Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture.

While Kawaguchi and Narita never encountered each other, Narita would later anonymously accuse Kawaguchi of having never been to Tibet; this accusation was quickly debunked by the Japanese newspapers.

Refuting some of the upbeat assertions about Iraq requires specialized knowledge, but many of them can be quickly debunked by anyone with an Internet connection.

The reports were quickly debunked.