Theresa May was Home Secretary. Therefore she was Minister in Charge of the Home Office, which had before her term in office cooked up the ludicrous Zombie Cop Myth to cut police numbers The Home Office must apologise. Did people die because of their myth? https://t.co/7WDvzEt9uI https://t.co/urDfkINKJO
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) November 5, 2018
Supermyths are myths about myths that are created and compounded by experts, spread by pseudo-skeptics and destroyed by evidence. Braced myths are a sub-type of supermyth, created by orthodox expert authorities that are so powerful they are believed to be true by respected scholars who unwittingly promote them as examples of the need to be healthily sceptical of counterknowledge and then, with unintended irony, use them as argument winners to refute other fallacious knowledge.