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Tragically , though , most Americans today wo n't give much credence to this good news , much less seek out such vital life-saving instruction , as they have been jaded by our culture 's pervasive myths of nuclear un-survivability . At least a healthy debate is going on among some commentators , rather than simple parroting of the Nehruvian myths of Indian naivete and Chinese betrayal . In a 1970 study of birth rates after that 1965 blackout , Uni - versity of North Carolina sociologist J. Richard Udry , seemed to concede his best efforts to put down the myth would fail . " Let us not imagine that a simple statistical analysis such as this will lay to rest the myth of blackout babies . Through this funding and the strengthening of our partnerships , we will dispel certain historical myths about cancer and combine present-day knowledge about cancer clinical trials with our power to make individual , institutional , and community-level changes . When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965 , it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship , calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought . We found reasons to assume that the rape of Ariadne and the rape of Helen are secularized forms of a Minoan hieratic myth , the carrying off of the vegetation goddess , and are identical in origin with the carrying off of Kore by Pluto . When a few months later several members of the M.Y.T.H . American Indian myths furnish the most ready examples . He also notes that the Christian Church would not have shaped a myth of Jesus , because the earliest disciples were not very creative . Mesopotamian myth is given pride of place in Chapter 2 as " the earliest myths " and " valuable for our understanding of classical myth " ( p. 17 ) .