Urban Myths

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On Rumours: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
Sunstein, Cass R
Book
2009
Describes the social and pyschological forces that make the spread of misinformation inevitable. Its argument runs like this: whether or not we choose to believe something, and whether we feel incline...

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The Snuff Film
The Making of an Urban Legend
Stine, Scott Aaron
1999
One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century...