This is just the latest in a long series of myths posted on and about Facebook.
Now, registered nutritionists have taken to social media platforms like Instagram to debunk a lot of dieting rules and myths, posting under the hashtags "intuitiveeating" (882,100 posts) and "mindfuleating" (546,800 posts).
I doubt if sound can change the world -- Mr. Marcus's idols dispelled that myth post-Woodstock -- but the band's do-it-yourself approach to its art might help with the more modest goal of changing people's minds about what's possible outside the mainstream of media and rock-crit hype.
He argued that a statement calling the Holocaust a "myth" still posted on the English-language Web site of Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was poorly translated from Persian.
Writing for television since the early 1980s, he broke ground with a new art form of "film/poems", with documentaries and features such as Prometheus (1998), which transposed Greek myth to post-industrial Yorkshire and post-communist eastern Europe.
A few days ago, I posted five myths for fighting the blues.
During a radio interview after I posted about Happiness Myth #7: Doing "Random Acts of Kindness" Brings Happiness, the host mentioned that he'd been walking been walking down the street when a guy announced, "Free hugs!" and gave him a big bear hug - a random act of kindness which did not result in happiness in that case.
DEREK LANEY: We really are uncovering the myth of post-racial America.
"This Viking stuff is absolute myth, a post-factum way of describing reckless behavior," Gudmundur Hálfdánarson, a professor of history at the University of Iceland, recently said.
That makes Brazil look better; it makes economic reform look better, too.*"The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil", by Irineu de Carvalho Filho and Marcos Chamon.
