Today, we're going to wrap our two-part series on Hollywood myths, deconstructing urban

legends tied to famous movies.

In this one, we'll end up getting stuck on a deeper dive into the famous belief that

John Wayne's death by cancer was caused by his work on a film set downwind from the Nevada

test site, home to above ground nuclear bomb tests.

We're wrapping it up today on Skeptoid.

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Today we have a few more myths to follow up our previous episode on legends from the

silver screen.

Many of you responded with some others, most notably, the claim that John Wayne's cancer

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