{"id":42267,"date":"2018-06-21T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T07:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=42267"},"modified":"2018-06-21T08:32:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T07:32:27","slug":"debunking-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/06\/21\/debunking-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Fergusson, who wrote the comment I reposted on MMT and football league points<\/a>, has provided another interesting comment in which he has pointed to the work of a climate change scientist called John Cook on debunking myths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cook seems to have dedicated quite a lot of thought to this issue, which could obviously be readily translated to debunking myths about money. As he puts it:<\/p>\n

People build mental models of how the world works, where all the different parts of the model fit together like cogs. Imagine one of those cogs is a myth. When you explain that the myth is false, you pluck out that cog, leaving a gap in their mental model.\"\"<\/a>But people feel uncomfortable with an incomplete model. They want to feel as if they know what\u2019s going on. So if you create a gap, you need to fill the gap with an alternative fact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His handbook on\u00a0debunking\u00a0myths<\/a> looks to be useful:<\/p>\n

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As does this video:<\/p>\n