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Tue Nov 16 01:30:16 UTC 2021

https://www.yahoo.com/news/22-things-were-taught-school-064603650.html

"ROY G BIV Is A Lie, And 21 Other Fake 'Facts'  Our Teachers Taught Us As
Kids"

JL

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 4:20 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Cf.:
>  https://www.yahoo.com/news/horses-cnn-contributor-slams-networks-161600893.html
> <https://www.yahoo.com/news/horses-cnn-contributor-slams-networks-161600893.html>
>
> "would you say that when you’re talking about a drug that has been given
> out to billions and billions of people?” Rogan asked Gupta. “A drug that
> the inventors won a Nobel Prize in 2015, a drug that has been shown to stop
> viral replication in vitro. You know that, right? Why would they lie and
> say that’s horse dewormer? [...] Do you think that that's a problem that
> your news network lies?"
>
> Ivermectin, the drug at issue, *is* a horse dewormer. The terminology was
> complicated by the fact that it's also prescribed for parasitic river
> blindness in humans. Rogan got a prescription for it (he doesn't have river
> blindness).
>
> Said in passing by Don Lemon, the characterization "horse dewormer" would
> more accurately be called a "misnomer" or even a "tendentious choice of
> words."
>
> But nowadays it's a "lie."
>
> JL
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 3:39 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> They lie flat, as opposed to flat-out lying
>>
>> MAM. .
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, 1:03 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > So you can't trust the inconstant moon either.
>> >
>> > I trust the flat-earthers. They have no reason to lie.
>> >
>> > JL
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:25 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Well, the Moon always lies *in the northern hemisphere*. In the
>> Tropics
>> > her
>> > > path takes her through or near the zenith on her monthly apparent
>> journey
>> > > from east to west and the edge of the shadow is roughly parallel to
>> that
>> > > line, so it depends on which way you're facing. And in the southern
>> > > hemisphere she tells the truth.
>> > >
>> > > Mark A. Mandel
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 4:38 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > > On Sep 22, 2021, at 4:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
>> > wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> https://www.yahoo.com/news/thought-knew-sun-color-lie-133422094.html
>> > :
>> > > > >
>> > > > > What You Thought You Knew About the Sun’s Color Is a Lie
>> > > > >
>> > > > > (People say it's yellow, but it's really white. Liars!)
>> > > > >
>> > > > > JL
>> > > >
>> > > > I don’t know—from the write-up it looks like it’s the sun that's the
>> > > > liar.  I was told the moon always lies (it makes a capital D when
>> it’s
>> > > > crescent and a C when it’s decrescent), but apparently you can’t
>> trust
>> > > any
>> > > > heavenly bodies.  Or even Springsteen:
>> > > >
>> > > > The piss-yellow sun
>> > > > Comes bringing up the day
>> > > > She said "Ain't nobody can give nobody
>> > > > What they really need anyway”
>> > > > (“Dry Lightning”)
>> > > >
>> > > > Is nothing sacred?
>> > > >
>> > > > LH
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:19 AM Dan Goncharoff <
>> thegonch at gmail.com>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > >> Interesting how one deals with opinions expressed as facts,
>> > especially
>> > > > when
>> > > > >> they are found to be wrong later. Are they Schrodinger
>> statements,
>> > > only
>> > > > >> found to be true or false once we "open the box"?
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 10:05 AM Jonathan Lighter <
>> > > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>> > > > >
>> > > > >> wrote:
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >>> 'any idea or statement that is untrue or that one disagrees
>> with.'
>> > > > >>>
>> > > > >>> I've been hearing this a lot on cable news, though not from
>> > > > journalists.
>> > > > >>> Ex.:
>> > > > >>>
>> > > > >>> Quora.com:  "Electrons absolutely positively do not whizz around
>> > the
>> > > > >>> nucleus of an atom. That idea is a lie-to-children, a
>> > simplification
>> > > > told
>> > > > >>> [to] young kids in grade school."
>> > > > >>>
>> > > > >>> CNN: "Rugged individualism is a lie."
>> > > > >>>
>> > > > >>> Also v.:
>> > > > >>>
>> > > > >>> Protest sign seen on FOX News: "FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED"
>> > > > >>>
>> > > > >>> JL
>> > > > >>>
>> > > > >>> --
>> > > > >>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle
>> the
>> > > > >> truth."
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