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		<title>Owls Are Not Wise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Owls Aren&#8217;t Wise &#38; Bats Aren&#8217;t Blind: A Naturalist Debunks Our Favorite Fallacies About Wildlife by Warner Shedd, with illustratins by Trudy Nicholson, is a pretty good book on fallacies in nature, things people believe that are not true. I.e., that owls are wise or that bats are blind. Did you know that porcupines throw &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/11/13/owls-r-not-wise/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Owls Are Not Wise</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Falsehood:  &#8220;If this was the Stone Age, I&#8217;d be dead by now&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is generally thought that life expectancy in the past was less that it is today for our species as a whole and in the case of industrialized countries in particular. However, this belief counts as a falsehood not because it is untrue (it is, in fact, true) but because many people get this idea &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/20/falsehood-stone-age-id-dead-now/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Falsehood:  &#8220;If this was the Stone Age, I&#8217;d be dead by now&#8221;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Falsehood: &#8220;Voters are kept from political involvement by the rules&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/04/28/falsehood-voters-are-kept-from-political-involvement-by-the-rules/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election 2016]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Voting is not party involvement. We hear a lot of talk these days about &#8220;voters&#8221; being repressed in their attempt to be involved in the Democratic primary process. There may be something to that, and it might be nice to make it easier for people to wake up on some (usually) Tuesday morning and go &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/04/28/falsehood-voters-are-kept-from-political-involvement-by-the-rules/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Falsehood: &#8220;Voters are kept from political involvement by the rules&#8221;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Every Culture Has A &#8230;.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230; has a what!?!? A rewritten repost for your amusement &#8230; see here and here for prior comments. I don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve heard the phrase &#8220;Every culture has a story about a flood&#8230;&#8221; This is very annoying because a) it is not true (I can think of several cultures that do not) &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/23/every-culture-has-a-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Every Culture Has A &#8230;.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is yet another in a series of posts on falsehoods. To refresh your memory, a falsehood is a belief held by a number of people that is in some way incorrect. That incorrectness may be blatant, it may be subtle, it may be conditional, it may be simple, it may be complex. But, the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/21/primitive-cultures-are-simple/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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