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Diva have you read this book?
It includes a 'mythbusting kit', i.e., the ten causes of myth:
- word-of-mouth
- desire for easy answers and quick fixes
- selective perception and memory
- inferring causation from correlation
- Post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning
- exposure to a biased sample
- reasoning by representativeness
- misleading film and media portrayals
- exaggeration of a kernel of truth
- terminological confusion
(Aren't items four and five the same?)
The book also includes "Ten Psychological Findings that Are Difficult to Believe but True." For example:
Patients who've experienced strokes in their brain's left frontal lobes, which result in severe language loss, are better at spotting lies than people without brain damage.
(I haven't read the book; it's reviewed in Skeptical Inquirer.)