Tag: Lewis Carroll
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Medical misinformation and “The Bellman’s Fallacy” in the Internet Era
Edward TaborBethesda, Maryland, United States “The Bellman’s Fallacy” is a form of biased thinking in which something is believed to be true because it has been repeatedly stated. Its name comes from the Bellman in Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark,” who says, “What I tell you three times is true.”1 Based on this…
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Carroll’s Wonderland
Yvonne Kusiima Kampala, Uganda Alice experiences total-body macrosomatogonosia. Illustration by John Tenniel (1865) In 1865 the world was introduced to the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. In the book, a young girl named Alice is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on…
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Down a rabbit hole
Eli Cannon Escondido, California, United States “Dad?” Original illustration dated 1865, by John Tenniel (1820 –1914), for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The voice is barely audible. Is that because Iris is upstairs in her room and I’m downstairs reading in the living room? Or is it because…? I drop my book and run…