Doctors, hospitals, regulators and policy-makers need to convert to this religion because it isn't myth: It is true.
Her seeming inability to give direct answers on questions such as drivers licenses for illegal immigrants and the fate of the Clinton papers in the National Archives made a lot of people wonder whether the heretofore well-oiled Clinton machine was on the verge of breaking down, if it wasn't a myth to begin with.
But I think that we've been so accustomed to hearing those phrases that sometimes we can't sort out the myth from the reality.
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Actually, the Palestinian and pan-Arab embrace of the Nakba myth doesn't merely demonstrate that they aren't interested in peaceful coexistence.
Well, if she didn't, Mr. Tarantino couldn't fold the Siegfried and Brunhilde myth into his mashup, and draw a bitterly ironic parallel between Candyland and Valhalla.
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In fact, just about the only people in all of the electronics industry who didn't buy into the Packard garage myth were Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.
Mark Norell, a prominent paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York who didn't participate in the study, said he doesn't know if the upright-posture myth is as widespread as the new study indicates.
And if Woz, an HP employee, and Jobs, and HP admirer, didn't intentionally set out to reproduce the garage myth at Apple, they quickly did in retrospect.
At the moment she's finishing a book for publication in 2012 that debunks myths about teens and social media. (Myth number five: Kids don't care about privacy.) Mark Zuckerberg might want to pick up a copy.
Myth No. 2: If it weren't for the Catholic Church, no one would be talking about contraception anyway.
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No wonder "the 'death panel' myth" has such currency among Americans who won't be doing the deciding.
The benign myth was that housing never crashed precisely because home owners didn't know whether their homes were losing value and, thus, didn't panic.
Half of all heart disease patients don't even have high cholesterol, a fact that confounds the layman's myth that heart attacks are caused by cholesterol clogging up the body's plumbing like grease in pipes.
But the notion that there are 46 million Americans who can't get the health care they need for lack of money or public assistance is a myth.
Customers didn't know about Victoria, but for years, boardroom fantasizing about her kept executives focused. (The myth was that she was 36, married to a lawyer and lived in London.) Lingerie and clothing in the catalog were items that executives imagined she'd wear sipping make-believe martinis in her imaginary home.
It doesn't let you play three sides with distinct strategic advantages, like StarCraft, and it lacks the visual punch of Myth II.
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