A tweet: Wow, I had spent the longest time believing the Cobra effect story of the British Raj was true, but had trouble finding a proper cite. Turns out googling it with “apocryphal” did the trick: it’s entirely made up. A lesson in trusting libertarian economistshttps://theweek.in/columns/bibek-debroy/2019/11/01/cobra-skin-and-rat-tails.html (1) Siberian fox on Twitter: “Wow, I had spent … Continue reading Things you know, that ain’t so, or ‘everything you thought you know is false porn’… the Cobra Effect