You have no idea how much trouble myth #10 has caused around my house *OR* My wife is trying to melt the kinder!

From ABC's John Stossel:

Myth No. 10 — Getting Cold Can Give You a Cold
All through my childhood, I had to watch health movies which sold us the old wive's tale: being cold will give you a cold.
People still think that's true, and they make sure their kids are more than prepared for nasty weather. So what happens when kids play a game of football without any coats — some without any shirts — on a 40-degree day? Probably nothing.
Public health expert Dr. Mark Callahan explained being cold has nothing to do with getting a cold. "Running around outside in the cold won't give you a cold. You have to get exposed to a virus, pick it up and then you'll get a cold," Callahan said.
I learned about this myth years ago, when 20/20 sent me to a cold part of England. Scientists there found that dropping cold viruses into people's noses often made them sick. But getting them cold and wet made no difference.
The researchers had people walk outside in the winter rain and then sit in unheated rooms in various stages of undress, and those chilled people got no more colds than did anyone else.
The cold is caused by a virus, not by temperature. And people get more colds in the winter, only because then we spend more time indoors passing the virus back and forth because we're closer to each other. Being cold has nothing to do with it.

I can tell you with absolute confidence this will make no impact whatsoever on my wife's opinion. It is revealed knowledge that exposure to cold temperature lowers your immunity system and makes you more susceptiible to colds. Well, my poor kids probably won't actually melt, so no harm done. Besides, how frustrated can you get with a woman who hulas?
Stossel's article is excellent. Here's the link again. You'll enjoy reading it. You have more free time to read it than you think, too.

(9) We Have Less Free Time Than We Used To
(8) American Families Need Two Incomes
(7) Money Can Buy Happiness
(6) Republicans Shrink the Government
(5) The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes
(4) Chemicals Are Killing Us
(3) Guns are Bad
(2) We're Drowning in Garbage
(1) To be announced on TV, Friday night.

This makes me think of a liberal woman’s website I read from time to time, Rayne Today. Except for #6, I think she believes all of these myths. She is full of anger and bitterness, vulgar name-calling and empty threats. Perhaps she’s that way because the world just keeps on refusing to align itself with her beliefs?