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Did you know a coin dropped from the top of tall buildings can kill you, and that oranges provide the best natural source of vitamin C? If you agree that a cockroach can survive a nuclear-bomb attack and Michael Jackson is the inventor of the moonwalk, then you definitely need to read Think Again!—all those statements, plus the over two hundred included in this book, are wrong.
Gifford sets out to correct some of the erroneous information that we have been lead to believe. The old wives’ tale about hair growing back thicker and faster after a haircut is addressed in the Body Blunders chapter. He tackles a false statement about the HIV virus that’s found on some websites and a misleading fact about carrots that may have began with the British pilots from World War II.
The chapter on World Wonders and Blunders clears up an exaggerated fact about Vincent van Gogh’s ear and a misinterpreted law about captains marrying couples at sea. Other sections of this book focus on correcting false beliefs about animals, science, and history.
There are helpful resource pages at the back of the book if readers are interested in learning more about the subjects covered, but most of the entries do not include direct references. Gifford refers to a study in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology to dispel the myth that sugar makes people hyperactive, and he states that experiments conducted at the Israel Institute of Technology show goldfish have memories much longer than three seconds, but similar documentation is missing for most of the answers.
Photographs, digital art, and illustrations blend together to create the sometimes bizarre artwork on the page. This book may attract the attention of young reluctant readers.
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Think Again! False Facts Attacked and Myths Busted