another old quote in its new home

I know that whatever is published in a book — correct or incorrect — will most certainly become public knowledge. This is why so many wrong ideas are popular among people.

- Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides, also known as "the Rambam"), in Letter on Martyrdom (translation by Abraham Halkin). The Rambam lived in the 12th century: surely in these days he would add, whatever is published in newspapers and in magazines and on the Web,...