The NEJM authors suffer the same disease that they accuse their myth-making colleagues of in their article: unscientific bias-itis.
The tale takes off on other unpredictable tangents, delving into the nature of fetishes as well as suburban myth-making.
The Great War of the Eggplant is a 1994 myth-making series that chronicles the impact of a controversial vegetable from the East.
But because of this negative myth-making, when social progress is made, I fear that the cards are stacked against us hearing about it.
His star declined in the 1950s, but in his heyday, he had some of the myth-making power of his more durable contemporaries such as Stewart, Bogart and Tracy.
No matter how right the causes Swartz embodied, no matter how heartless the institutions he fought, it is wrong to turn the technogeek myth-making factory on a suicide.
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But her most important attribute was her talent for myth-making.
Indeed, the empirical evidence makes hash of the myth that culture is most responsible for making the athlete.
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The idea that shariah-compliance provides a safe haven is a myth and the fact that the industry keeps making that claim in the face of reality is simply more proof that they cannot be trusted.
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Having Kagan as No. 3 could start breaking apart the myth that one woman, or even two, is enough in any important decision-making group, from corporate boards to government agencies.
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Franco and Zimbardo have argued that deifying heroes like this -- what they call "the myth of the 'heroic elect'" -- has the perverse effect of making us blind to our own heroic potential.
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