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[terry hallinan]

Is there anything in life today accepted as fact without the typical debate no matter how ridiculous.

Statistics, the biggest liars of all.

"Lies, damn lies and statistics" - Mark Twain

The internet has magnified the voices of many who had no voices of note previously for good and ill.

But immortal truths accepted by nearly all still need a generation or two to lose their hold.

For one such absolute truth that is little more than mythology is that a giant space rock collided with earth and wiped out the dinosaurs and most everything else overnight.

A Nobel prize was awarded for that imaginary fact. The collision was real. The last great extinction was the result of volcanic activity you can see memorialized in Craters of the Moon national park near Yellowstone's super volcano that will be a bad un' when it blows but not going to cause worldwide extinction like the giant space rock didn't.

It will take a generation or two or three for newscasters and pop scientists and teachers and mommies and daddies to stop telling lies to the kiddies about a space invader - and by then there may be a new debunking.

So it goes to quote famed biologist Kurt Vonnegut.

Best, Terry