• It's a world wide web of lies (but facts strike back)

    It's a world wide web of lies (but facts strike back)
    We all know about lemmings, right? These tiny Arctic rodents occasionally commit mass suicide by hurling themselves off cliffs en masse. Why, adorable fuzzy creatures? Why?
    The answer is: They don't. Lemming suicide is a myth, a misconception, a lie.
    We hold this false belief because a 1958 Disney documentary called White Wilderness staged fake lemming suicide scenes for the camera. (Disney filmmakers shipped lemmings to Canada and chased them off a cliff.) Here's the scene that created the lem

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