Poor quality thinking is much in evidence these days, especially in the media, both traditional and non-traditional. One recent exemplar is the present day re-interpretation…
Carl Sagan – Mythmaker & the Priests of Science
America’s most popular science writer was a lousy historian! Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was a revered and immensely popular public figure around the time of the…
Debunked – Historical Misogyny
Una Mullally writing for the Irish Times asks “Out of 697 Dublin mayors, why have only eight been women?” Una did not intend to dispel…
Little Mistakes Grow into Big False Impressions
Little mistakes that go unchallenged are one of the primary contributors to false history. Here is one which is not easily spotted in the ITV…
Plastered and legless – Her friends have no sympathy!
A classic of the genre – At first glance, this appears to be a troubling story of a woman, Paula Gahan, now a comedian living in London, who was, or thinks she was sexually assaulted after going on a major alcohol bender.
Dumped in a septic tank!
‘This erroneous assertion that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That is not true’. Prof Diarmaid Ferriter – van der Horst interview 2014…
The Mass Grave Lie
Would you consider your local cemetery to be a mass grave, perhaps an old burial ground with no headstones or grave markers? The term mass…
The Mother and Baby Home Lie
The home at Tuam was never called a Mother and Baby Home. Its official name was St. Mary’s Children’s Home and in all the historical…
The Unmarked Grave Site Lie
Almost every photo taken of the memorial garden where some children from the Tuam Children’s Home are buried show a gate with a Christian cross…
The Starvation Lie
The chief lie upon which the mother and baby scandal relies upon is the claim that babies were starved to death. This relies on a…
