andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> Thanks for assuming that there are only kids in this newsgroup. ;)
>

Only?


> I disagree, a lie for children is when you explain something highly
> simplified and/or deliberately wrong because the actual facts are to
> difficult. Suggesting that the heart is driven by the nervous system is
> simply wrong and what actually happens is just as easy to understand.
> Involving the brain will in a bright child immediately lead to questions
> what happens when you sleep or are unconscious. The child might even
> fear to go to sleep. It does not explain coma or how a paralysed person
> can live. So, please, if you have children, tell them a simplification
> of the truth, but never that your brain dictates when the heart has to
> beat.



Stephen

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