Zombie Cops in Voodoo Criminology Paper Making a Difference Already

The 100 Yard Beat Patrol Dysology is making its mark click to see article citation on Fools Gold in policy making

Wikipedia seeking to improve its reputation for dreadful unreliability through toxic "experts are scum" stealth plagiarism policy

Wikipedia is trying to improve its notorious reputation for unreliably by deliberately plagiarizing my work, and that of other myth busters, under the officially published Wikipedia 'master editor' policy that "experts are scum". Read the shocking story, and its dreadful implications for veracity, here.

Moral Panic Myth

 If you've read and believed the myth-bust that it was actually Jock Young and not Stan Cohen who coined the phrase 'moral panic' then you've been mislead. If you are one of the few who have read that it was in fact Marshal McLuhan who coined the term and so invented the concept in 1964 you have also been mislead. Because  Young did publish on moral panic before Cohen and McLuhan did publish on it before either Cohen or Young. But the term has been used many times before in the literature, To date, the earliest time I have found in which moral panic was used in a publication is 1830, Read the myth busting here: and see if your research skills can find an earlier date when the phrase was used.

The Moral Panic Myth

The British Moral Panic Creation Myth is Bust

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Article by Mike Sutton

Despite 45 years of claims made by British criminologists that they invented both the phrase and the concept of moral panic in the late 1960s and early 1970s, new research of the literature reveals that both have in fact been in use throughout the last 183 years in the USA and Europe.

Click here to see how I bust this criminology myth

Another pre-supermyth busted: The Channel 5 25 a Day Fallacy

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On new year's day 2013 - to have maximum impact on those making new year healthy eating resolutions - the British TV Channel 5 broadcast  a pile of dreadful bullony on prime time television to mislead people that the recommended 5 a day of fruit and vegetables is wrong due to a depletion of  minerals caused by poor soil quality. You can read about the 25 a day fallacy over at Best Thinking here

On Supermyths and the braced myth subtype

Supermyths, of which braced myths are a sub-type - are ironic unintended, or else a deliberate and disingenuous, consequences of fallacy dissemination. Supermyths have very specific components:

1. The creation of a fallacy, myth or error by an orthodox expert.

2. Being used by another expert who in turn promotes it as being ‘true, and whilst still thinking that it is true either promotes it as a good example of the need to be healthily skeptical of bad scholarship, or else: 

3. compounds the myth by using it as a premise upon which to build one or more supporting myths.

Braced myths are supermyths that have been pointedly deployed by orthodox scholars in order to bust another specific myth or fallacy. The braced myth hypothesis is that using one myth as a specific mythbusting device in this way braces the supermyth to make it further entrenched and therefore more difficult to prevent it being credulously disseminated as veracious knowledge.

A pre-supermyth - bracedmyth in the making: The 164ft Zombie Rat Myth

Latest supermyth: The Semmelweis Myth 

Latest Supermyth News.

Is this how they are created? British civil servant creates another arithmetical zombie fallacy  This time we have zombie rats as necessary nonsense to make the bad science calculation work.read all about it Here . Is this a pre-supermyth?

Latest Supermyth Discovered

Read All About the Semmelweis Supermyth Here