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Shall We Dispel Urban Myths?

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The thing with popular misconceptions is that nowadays, with the flood of information constantly drowning us on a daily basis, we need to take stock occasionally (and no, that is not a recommendation for store workers) to determine what information is true and what is not. For a great deal of the population, a piece of news, (regardless of correctness or validity) that has been mentioned six times or more will become accepted as fact.

For example, in the early 1930s, trumped up reports from New York sensationalist gutter newspapers started circulating stories of alligators living in sewers. There has never been any such an occurrence and still, today many people are suckered into believing such nonsense. There are even some people who take things at face value and will believe any story on first hearing and I have covered that phenomenon a couple of times in the Religion Forum.

So, what's your favorite urban myth? Here is a few of mine:

The Loch Ness Monster: This one went for ages and the local Scots people cleaned up financially for generations over the gullibility of wealthy tourists.

The best cooked steak: Many celebrity chefs still try to pass this one off, usually out of sheer entertainment......"Yeah well, you have to sear the steak on both sides to lock in the juices". Not so. In fact, it has been properly tested and found that burning the bejesus on each side actually bursts the vessels and pockets containing fluid, allowing the steak to run dry. Conversely... "Wow, don't put any salt on my steak, that makes it dry out." Crap; yes it is true that salt does dry out meat but we have to look at "by what degree". You would have to drown your T bone in salt before anything like that happens, so a sprinkle makes diddly squat difference. Actually, salt-crusted chicken comes out succulent and juicy.

Men in Black: For some, watching those movies enough times makes them think that such terminology is true and that there are government agents dressed in black suits and sunglasses who go around knocking off those who report alien landings.

Ring a Rosies: And of course, there are always the doom merchants who just have to make an old children's nursery rhyme sound sinister. "A tissue, a tissue we all fall down", was not (intended as) a reference at all to thousands of Londoners dropping dead after having sneezing fits during the Plague. It was no more than what it always was; children's play. Mind you, Kleenex has been "kleening" up all the way to the bank since that load of codswallop broke loose.



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