Someone on the “defence spending review thread” said
It’s just one of those things where someone’s bullshit has become the accepted truth because it’s repeated so often and because so many articles are just cut-n-pastes.
I came across two examples of this sort of thing recently.
1) Max Moseley like Nazi S&M
This was the NoTW’s claim. It was complete sexy bullshit, as they well knew. Interestingly, it’s sexy bullshit that the High Court ruled on: http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2008/1777.html&query=Mosley+and+nazi+and+sex&method=boolean
. I found that there was no evidence that the gathering on 28 March 2008 was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behaviour or adoption of any of its attitudes. Nor was it in fact. I see no genuine basis at all for the suggestion that the participants mocked the victims of the Holocaust.
There was bondage, beating and domination which seem to be typical of S and M behaviour. But there was no public interest or other justification for the clandestine recording, for the publication of the resulting information and still photographs, or for the placing of the video extracts on the News of the World website
If you’ve ever wanted to find out what the best language for sexy times is, well, the court has considered that too.
2) Jean Charles de Menezes jumped the tube barrier and ran towards a train before he was killed by police
This was also complete bullshit, yet spread by many still today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
Most likely spread by the Met.
What is your favourite thing that is bullshit that is treated like the truth?