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She added the men on the talk show "weren't sort of like debunking anything that I was saying", and said Mescal "completely gets" the issue as they have talked about it before.

Even then, these debunking claims, already quite common, seemed a bit far-fetched, but I shrugged and wrote it off: Everyone is entitled to one eccentricity.

In the past he has spoken with Salon about everything from debunking UFO hoaxes to understanding Dyson spheres.

At a press conference in Caracas on Wednesday, he also gave González "24 hours" to take back his assertions, saying that otherwise he would publish audio of their conversations debunking the opposition candidate's claims.

"Thanks for debunking the myth," the officials tweeted.