50 Annoying Myths People Have To Finally Stop Believing In

Upvoting you ten times if I could.

Equally bad is the myth that you *need* to eat animals to get your protein.

You find it strange, but in my experience, dealing with absolute tribalism and superstition, this is so heavily entrenched in their psyche that fact isn't even entered into the argument. If, 300 years ago your ancestor saw a thunderstorm over a tall forest and said "a tree will burn in tonight's rain", and they are correct just ONCE in 30 years of guessing, then you are from a long line of seers and shamans, gifted powers beyond comprehension, and the power of doing the impossible (predicting a burning a tree in the middle of a rain storm). The culture will keep that superstition alive like it was yesterday. Science says that the chances of lightning hitting, and burning at least 1 tall tree in a large forest, over the course of 30 years is highly probable, if not a certainty. But that has no room to even enter the conversation.

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How many medicines do you think have been created from the natural product? There is no doubt that traditional medicines can and do work effectively, mostly it's about dose that's wrong. Y'all just revolted about the gross parts about it, because as far as animals go, we all share a connection. As far as antivaxxers, child you are very niave all the way around

And unfortunately the countries that believe this have some of the largest populations in the world!

Would love to be able to upvote 10.000 times

Exactly! Vaccines cause adults.

They don't cause life, they just help it to continue.

Is that what the kids are calling sex these days...

As with any medicine, there is a very remote chance of a vaccine causing a severe allergic reaction, other serious injury, or death. - DuckDuckGo search result re: vaccine injury.

As with any medicine, there is a very remote chance of a vaccine causing a severe allergic reaction, other serious injury, or death. - DuckDuckGo search result about vaccine injuries.

Even if vaccines don't contain microchips, etc., they DO harm *some* people, and if the government or issuing body can't SPECIFY which biological markers make people susceptible to sometimes life-threatening or life-ending symptoms, then people might be wise to be skeptical. Some people have a strong proclivity towards anaphylaxis and inflammation. Even typical foods can cause it, so who knows what a new vaccine might do to an otherwise healthy individual. Just take precautions and avoid being around people who might be contagious, given how some illnesses can only be transmitted up to a certain proximity. Be glad your immune system doesn't trip out when something foreign is introduced into your body--not everyone's biology is built that way.

This, this is what works me up the most as an autistic person myself people rather their kids die than be like me

And when antivaxxer are also pro-lifer... you have the big paradox cocktail

Yes, sometimes I wonder if Anti-vaxers are indeed natural selection at work. Unfortunately, it's the medically compromised kid in their kid's class or the elderly person on the bus who has to bear the consequences.

Another myth is goldfish have a memory of only 3 seconds. Research has proven this to be entirely untrue.

I once worked as a dog sitter for my next door neighbors. They had a cleaning lady come in every other week, and I would talk to her while she worked. I was telling her about my betta, Sir Peacock, bc he was the best fish. She told me about her bettas, who she kept on the windowsill in the containers they came in until she'd accidentally knock them into hot dish water. I was stunned and horrified. Sir Peacock lived to be four years old and died of old age, after which my 12 inch pleco Leopard died of heartbreak. Or organ failure. I don't know which. (Sir Peacock lived in a 10 gallon tank, and we moved him and Leopard to a 25 gallon after Leopard got too cramped)

She was hospitalized for 8 days and underwent 2 years of treatment! Trivialize that McPigs!

didn't mcdonalds pay someone to like ruin her image or distort the story and that's why people think she was in the wrong?

Stella Liebeck, 79 years old, was sitting in the passenger seat of her grandson’s car having purchased a cup of McDonald’s coffee. After the car stopped, she tried to hold the cup between her knees while removing the lid. However, the cup tipped over, pouring scalding hot coffee onto her. She received third-degree burns over 16 percent of her body, necessitating hospitalization for eight days, whirlpool treatment for debridement of her wounds, skin grafting, scarring, and disability for more than two years. Her labia her fused together by the burns. Despite these extensive injuries, she offered to settle with McDonald’s for $20,000. However, McDonald’s refused to settle. The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages -- reduced to $160,000 because the jury found her 20 percent at fault -- and $2.7 million in punitive damages for McDonald’s callous conduct. (To put this in perspective, McDonald's revenue from coffee sales alone is in excess of $1.3 million a day.)

The McDonalds had been cited repeatedly by safety inspectors for the coffee being WAY TOO HOT. The woman was seated in the PASSENGER seat of a PARKED car. No one deserves to be maimed because a fast food place refuses to allow for accidents that can happen to anyone.

And her labia were fused together by the burns.

Why did she put it between her legs. As far as I am concerned she was an idiot that did it to get cash!

McDonald's had also been sued numerous times before for the too hot coffee issue and got slaps on the wrist. The jury who heard her case actually asked the judge if they could give the woman a bigger judgment than she asked for.

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I make my coffee 'dangerously hot' at home too. And after many years of doing so, I still don't have thirds degree burns. It's not like you can heat you coffee to lava-like temperatures; about 100 degrees Celsius (212 Fahrenheit) is the max.

Yup, it's the American system that's effed up. But her case was valid.

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Tu lo has dicho: "no debe beberse", eso no quiere decir que se confeccione a esa temperatura. Resulta que un café necesita alcanzar los 100ºC para hacerse o no es café.