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The lies we live by

Men's Fitness,  Dec, 2003  

Remember when mom lied about Santa Claus? Brace yourself--turns out that wasn't the only yarn she spun. Case in point: "Put on a jacket or you'll catch cold."

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"Colds are caused by 150 types of viruses, and you can only get them from contact with another human's secretions (coughing, sneezing) or something they touched," says Dr. Lawrence D. Ellis, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and world-renowned mom-baiter. He wanted to explain the matter further, but we cut him off for fear he might bust out some DNA chart and tell us she's not really our morn. That would just be too much.

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