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I found this one interesting: > There was no widespread outbreak of panic across the United States in response to Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation of H.G.
by notadog 6y ago
I found this one interesting:
> There was no widespread outbreak of panic across the United States in response to Orson Welles's 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Only a very small share of the radio audience was even listening to it, and isolated reports of scattered incidents and increased call volume to emergency services were played up the next day by newspapers, eager to discredit radio as a competitor for advertising. Both Welles and CBS, which had initially reacted apologetically, later came to realize that the myth benefited them and actively embraced it in later years.
I also had no idea this was something that needed to be stated in order to correct a common misconception:
> Infants can and do feel pain.
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- yesenadam 6y ago> This is a list of common misconceptions. Each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.