Two myths faced with facts

Myth 1: The globe is warming up, and mankind is to be blamed for it!
What is this myth based on? Certainly not data! Certainly not facts! It's based on predictions.

Weather satellites have been measuring global temperatures since 1979, but have shown no climate warming - contrary to all expectations. According to computer models cited by the U.N.-sponsored science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a substantial warming of nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit should have occurred during this 18-year period. (#)

Already during the Renaissance-period scientists learned that godly theories and philosophical predictions are useless in the real world if facts, experience and reality don't confirm them. This lesson must be learned again, it seems.

"Since 1940, there has been a 35-year-long cooling trend and not much warming in the past quarter-century, according to global data from weather satellites." (#)

Theories, which don't take facts into consideration, should be abolished.

Myth 2: A universal, national, single-payer health-care system is better than a system based on privately-insured and -paid medical-treatments.
This myth is hard to get rid off, despite the evidence of its flaws. The following was said about the single-payer Canadian health-care system:

"Many patients on non-urgent waiting lists are in pain and cannot fully enjoy any real quality of life. The right to life and to personal inviolability is therefore affected by the waiting times." (#)

A number of myths about single-payer health-care systems are discussed and undermined here by using hard data and facts. The final-words of that discussion are:

Advocates of national health insurance would do well to look at how countries like Germany, Sweden, and Australia are choosing free-market reforms to alleviate the problems of their national health systems. Through painful experience, many of the countries that once heralded the benefits of government control have learned that the best remedy for their countries’ health care crises is not increasing government power, but increasing patient power instead.

Of course this author realizes that many myths can be attacked with biased data and by selecting the right facts and not the wrong ones. However, anyone is welcome to offer rebutting evidence and prove that the fore mentioned myths are in fact the reality.