It's said to be Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels or Hitler himself who said, "If you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it." Certain huge whoppers keep circulating, and they've been repeated so often, so insistently – and increasingly by people who should know better and probably do – that they are being accepted as fact. It's become so irritating to me that I feel I've got to shout: "Quit saying that! It's not so." Someone else said famously, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"; and since I'm a fan of both...