www.socio-political-journal.com/2016/08/old-lies.htmlToo many people in the media and in academia abandon their roles as conduits for facts and take on the role of filterers of facts to promote social and political agendas.In all too many educational institutions, from kindergartens to postgraduate university programs, students may never hear any facts that contradict the prevailing groupthink.How many students taught by Keynesian economists will ever learn about the 1921 recession, when the Harding administration did nothing -- and unemployment dropped steeply as the economy recovered on its own?There are many reasons why old lies, refuted long ago, are still heard every election year, and in all too many other years. www.socio-political-journal.com/2016/08/old-lies.html