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"Thing You Were Lied to About Dinosaurs"

Things You Were Lied to About Dinosaurs | Watch (msn.com)
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In this case the "lies" are "myths and misconceptions", e.g. "dinosaurs
were green, scary monsters."  (Great CGI, though.)

JL

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:31 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> https://news.yahoo.com/seismic-shift-fractures-evangelicals-arkansas-185525279.html
> :
>
> “This mindset that Christianity and politics, and the preacher and
> politics, need to be separate, that’s a lie,” he said.
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 8:30 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > --
>>>> > > > > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle
>>>> the
>>>> > > > truth."
>>>> > > > >
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>>>> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
>>>> truth."
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
>>> truth."
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
>> truth."
>>
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>
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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