"Who can object to being corrected when they are harboring falsehoods?"

People object to being corrected about just about anything, and usually quite vehemently, in my experience. This is even more true when they feel their being corrected makes them look like a fool, as is the case with being "corrected" about folklore "falsehoods" as you call them.

I said over in the gullibility thread and in the some thoughts about the election thread (which is a perfect example of the FWDed email syndrome running rampant here in Mudcat), that the election season has seen the BS section inundated by that sort of FWDed crap, and that it is being tolerated here despite it violating the stated Mudcat FAQ Editorial Policy on cut and pastes.

But because so many of the Mudcat regulars are sucked into and participate in the phenomenon so uncritically, my mentioning that fact is being met with the predictable hostility reserved for those of us who catch people out at doing things that shows their are holding to a double standard, or engaging in yet another internet snopes sort of phenomenon.

But that's life on the internet for you. Just wanted to see how many others there were in this forum who hadn't gone over to the dark side. Very few, apparently.