Chinese Whispers

Richard DawkinsのThe God Delusionを読んでいますが2/25/2012に覚えてその後目にした事のない表現 "Chinese whispers" が次の様に出てきました。
All were written long after the death of Jesus, and also after the epistles of Paul, which mention almost none of the alleged facts of Jesus' life. All were then copied and recopied, through many different 'Chinese Whispers generations' (see Chapter 5) by fallible scribes who, in any case, had their own religious agendas.