Confidence-Shaker
‘POPULAR FALLACIES is harsh in its dealings with our cherished beliefs. Although most of us imagine our knowledge to be exact and unshakable, in reality there are few of us who don’t cling to some fallacious piece of information for the veracity of which we would unhesitatingly vouch, I have heard it firmly stated, by people who ought to know better, that cats carry diphtheria, that it is dangerously unlucky to pick may-blossom, that you can get a fire.to draw simply by placing a poker in front of the bars of your grate, and various other inanities too numerous to mention, Popular Fallacies wouldn’t concern itself with such’ puerilities, but concentrates on sterner stuff, telling us how to behave after the murder, whether our insurance policy is foolproof, whether our first edition with the uncut edges is really as valuable as we imagined, and so on. The-only thing I have against this otherwise admirable programme is the fact that, after hearing it once or twice, the listener is apt to acquire a permanently soured disition, having discovered too often at things are never quite as trustworthy as they seem,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 9
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190Confidence-Shaker New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 9
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