 And there's a huge percentage of the population that still believes that nonsense. In other words, just because the lie is a lie doesn't mean that the debunking of the lie takes hold in the public imagination. There are lots of cases like this. There's a good article over at the Free Press today about the murder of Matthew Shepard. You remember that case became the basis for the so-called Laramie Project. It was the basis for a huge push in the gay rights movement because there was a gay guy in Montana and he was killed.