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Another vote for ants, although that's partly because I'm a fan of the film Phase IV in which all ant species suddenly start cooperating with each other against humans.
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The word "yclept," meaning "by the name of".
Oh, I see what you mean - I read it as OP criticising those progressive moves, but yeah, they might have meant it your way, fair point.
Those all sound like good things to me.
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Might be worth unpinning it now :-)
They look like they were designed by Fiat:
If they successfully debunked it you could say they refuted it.
People sometimes use the same word to mean simply arguing against something (whether successfully or not) but I think the correct word in that case would be repudiate.
Also, to be picky, if something is a fact, it can't really be debunked. If it is genuinely debunked then it was never really a fact, even if people previously believed that it was.