I couldn't resist posting this quotation:

"let people advance what they will on such subjects, yet there is such a propensity in mankind towards deceiving and being deceived, that one cannot safely relate anything from common report, especially in print, without expressing some degree of doubt and suspicion"

Written by Rev Gilbert White a retired english clergyman in 1768 - THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.

Somethings never change...