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Myths, Myths, Everywhere

2021
This chapter debunks a series of myths about science and religion. These include the idea that Giordano Bruno and then Galileo Galilei were martyrs of modern science; that Copernicanism was unilaterally opposed by the Church; that Christianity sets faith against evidence; that reason has played no part in Christian thinking over its history; that true ...
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Myth and Myth-making

2020
Abstract Modern societies function through a variety of interconnected myths. Stories of who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going next are necessitated by mass society. This chapter contends that Australia myth-making can be helpfully analysed by separately exploring its colonial, nationalist, and modern forms.
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Vaccine myths

Science, 2017
Health officials say vaccines are safe, so where do common vaccine concerns come from?
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Mythes d'origine, mythes d'identification

L'Homme, 1987
Mythes du deluge et mythes de fondation dans le monde chinois. Analyse plus particuliere du mythe du Chien Pan Hu, dont la finalite apparait etre de creer un lien entre minorite et majorite, entre ethnie tribale et Etat au ...
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Are Rape Myths ‘Myths’?

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Abstract Little attention has been paid to what the word ‘myth’ contributes to the concept of rape myths. Rape myths tend to be regarded as widely believed falsehoods that need to be debunked in order to address patriarchal injustices. This account draws upon a long-standing vernacular English association between myth and falsehood which
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Nutritional Myths

Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association, 2005
Owners are sometimes confused or misinformed about nutritional facts pertaining to pet foods, and three common nutritional myths have been propagated in the popular press. The first myth is that meat by-products are of inferior quality compared to whole meat.
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