Welcome
Welcome to Everything You Know is a Lie - A site dedicated to righting the wrongs of "known facts", Urban Myths, Old Wives Tales and scientific misnomers.
So for all of you pedants out there who find themselves screaming at either the TV or cinema screen after hearing yet another well known but equally totally false statement.... you are home.
We really appreciate our frequent visitors and thanks to web-stats WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE! But please, don't be shy. If you have a favourite well known fact that's actually totally false then please, please do get in touch.
Many thanks
The Pedant
Academic Research? Further update
I’m always surprised and pleased by the number of student/academic visitors we get each day.
We’ve compiled a list of the educational establishments;
- Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA (Go Cougars!)
- Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University, UK
- Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, UK
- Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- College of North East London, UK
- Salford University, UK
- University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
- Upper Canada District School Board, Canada
- Warwick University, UK
- University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, UK
Sponsors
We’ve decided to drop Google as one of our sponsors, mainly due to their draconian viewpoint on payment. It seems that while they insist of 14 day terms to be paid, advertisers have to wait 90 days. So we have elected to provide ads using Trade Doubler only.
New Features
- We've added a nice map courtesy of ClustrMaps (which just has to be a web 2.0 site, because it's lost a vowel... or should that be vowl).
- You can now add comments to the entries on EYKIAL. We're using the HaloScan system for convenience and yes, we're going to use moderation from the start.
Some stats from the stat file
Since inception in 2005 - Everything you know is a lie has been viewed over 1,000,000 times!
Our busiest month is always September, when our article regarding Q33 brings six times the amount of traffic into the site. Next is January.