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Please check the date on your newsletter!Because we know that our subscribers are intelligent and informed we don't expect any of you turning up here - only those tragics (such as certain sections of the media) who are prepared to believe the latest conspiracy theories regardless of common sense. The rest of you will already have noted strange anomalies in our newsletter: - Tommy Bent was never Prime Minister
- 100m plus 100m plus 141m can't take you over 2km
- There is no corner of Latrobe and Lonsdale streets - they run parallel
Happy April Fool's Day.
Those interested in the subject of urban myths are sure to be interested in Francis Wheen's How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (see below).
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This highly entertaining book documents and debunks a whole range of
manufactured myths, media-induced mass unreason, post-modernist academic
fakery, vacuous business and self-help 'philosophies' and new age snake
oil that have become popular in recent years.
Despite often being extremely funny, it is an impassioned and
tightly-argued plea to recognise mumbo jumbo for what it is and to
champion the values of the Enlightenment philosophers.
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