Imagination Replaces Knowledge
Poor quality thinking is much in evidence these days, especially in the media, both traditional and non-traditional. One recent exemplar […]
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
Debunked – Historical Misogyny
Una Mullally writing for the Irish Times asks “Out of 697 Dublin mayors, why have only eight been women?” Una
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
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 –
The Mass Grave Lie
Would you consider your local cemetery to be a mass grave, perhaps an old burial ground with no headstones or
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
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
The Starvation Lie
The chief lie upon which the mother and baby scandal relies upon is the claim that babies were starved to
