Last weekend Dr. Christian Bokhove gave a Dutch and English version of his ‘This is the new myth’ talk. This talk did not came about in some vain attempt to take over the mythical status of some other excellent ‘mythbusters’, like Pedro De Bruyckere, Paul Kirschner and Casper Hulshof in their excellent book, but more with frustration how some facts opposed to certain myths, became simplified beyond recognition, often distorting the original message. In other words, a danger that the debunking of myths become new myths on their own. In this talk Bokhove goes into how myths might come about, and give some examples, including one on iron in spinach. He presents some examples where he thinks facts are misrepresented on and in the (social) media

The slides for the talk are here:

A video of the talk is here:

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