40 Myths People Think Are True, Yet They Are in Reality Very, Very False, As Shared In This Online Thread

Comedian Ron White once famously called his show You Can't Fix Stupid. The statement is debatable, because in theory, education is supposed to do that, but it's a completely different story when it boils down to practice. And so there is always work to be done when pushing away the tide of ignorance.

But until then, Redditors embrace the reality by asking questions and sharing experiences. Specifically, this time around, someone on Reddit asked people to share the dumbest myths people today still believe, and the r/AskReddit community was quick to deliver.

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40 Myths People Think Are True, Yet They Are in Reality Very, Very False, As Shared In This Online Thread Vaccines cause autism…..

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

I wish I could upvote this more than once! AUTISM IS A NEUROLOGICAL CONDITION DETERMINED BEFORE BIRTH, TYPICALLY CAUSED BY GENETIC FACTORS

390points

Alias-the-shade 1 year ago

Yeah I’m already autistic is getting multiple vaccines gonna multiplier it or something?!

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Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

Bored Panda spontaneously created a comment for me, so I suppose it thinks there’s something else I should say, although I’m not sure what. Since I can’t delete this unexpected and unplanned comment, I might as well take the chance and mention that along with vaccine as a cause for autism, mercury, pollution and microplastics have also been completely disproven. As has the surprisingly common notion that the percentage of autistic people is on the rise. It’s not. It’s not even fluctuating much. We’ve just gotten better at recognizing it for what it is. We remain steadily at not quite 1% of the world population. Thank you for coming to my not-quite-TED-but-maybe-like-Bob-or-something-talk.

17points

bisexualpersonofadhd 1 year ago

YES AS A PERSON WITH IT THIS INFURIATES ME

4points

Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

Well summarized and thoroughly, absolutely correct. It’s been completely disproven, naturally, through extensive research - real research - but that one false article has caused a hell of a lot of damage. Potentially that’s one of the reasons why the dìckhead doctor who wrote it lost his license over it, I’m not sure. The problem is that disproving it through correct scientific routine hasn’t helped much, because if you’re the kind of person who’s under the delusion that there’s any connection between vaccines and autism at all, there’s a considerable risk you’re not the kind of person who keeps up with valid research reports. There also seems to be a considerable risk that you’ll dismiss said reports, if they don’t support your pre-existing narrative. The whole thing is a tiresome mess, it’s a superstitious belief more than a myth at this point.

4points

Epsilon 1 year ago

Can confirm. I have had autism my whole life VACCINES ARENT A CAUSE!!!!!

4points

Business shark 1 year ago

Same with adhd! I keep hearing about how the vaccine causes adhd, and it's annoying because I have adhd, my dad has adhd, and we were both born with it before the pandemic, so there is no chance the vaccine gave it to us! You have my upvote.

3points

Max Fox 1 year ago

There may also be environmental factors - autism cases seem to have increased in East Germany since the reunification. That is also great evidence that vaccinations do NOT cause autism, since vaccination rates have dropped since the reunification. It may be increased diagnosis, but that does not seem to explain enough of the increase. So perhaps something in Modern Western lifestyle doe increase the chance that a kid who is genetically predisposed will actually manifest autism (because genetics definitely also play into this). However, there is no obvious candidate for this or these factors.

3points

Orillion 1 year ago

But... But... That study...?

1point

Jim Byrne 9 months ago

If so, then why has it increased exponentially over the last view decades?

0points

Pamela Blue 1 year ago

Then you can understand parents trying to blame something else. They don't want to admit that their genes are defective.

0points

Astrid the odd Astroid 1 year ago

Preach it!

0points

Cll 1 year ago

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Lace Neil 1 year ago

Even if it was true, which it most certainly isn't, but if it was, wouldn't you rather have an autistic child than a dead child?

33points

FantastiKitty 1 year ago

Was going to say this.

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Marcellus II 1 year ago

The balance seems to be (autistic child + I'm a sheep) OR (dead child + I'm smarter than science) where the antivaxx crowd chooses the latter.

2points

Phoenix the Frog 1 year ago

I know autism is not even bad.

1point

Hippopotamuses 1 year ago

Isn’t it incredible how much damage one sad fraudulent loser managed to do!

30points

Margaret H 1 year ago

In the dim, dark ages when I was a girl, our next-door neighbour's son got polio in one of the epidemics that rolled through. He spent the rest of his life in an iron lung and died before his 21st birthday. Our parents jumped with joy when the vaccine was developed. Autism was no more prevalent afterwards than it was before vaccination.

22points

Ellie Ahmed 1 year ago

My grandmother contracted rubella during pregnancy before MMR vaccine was available and my aunt was born with Congenital Rubella Syndrome, a condition that can affect babies exposed to rubella in the womb. She is profoundly intellectually disabled (ranging somewhere between a toddler and a five year old), non-verbal apart from groans, can't care for herself without 24 hour support, and despite really fantastic care is often confused, frustrated and scared by a world she doesn't always understand. She is very beloved as she is, but none of us are kidding ourselves that her life could have been so much richer and less challenging for her without this condition. If the MMR vaccine had been available to my grandmother before her pregnancy, this didn't need to happen. Not every baby with congenital rubella had as severe a deficit as my aunty, but she is far from a unique case in her generation. The idea of scrapping a vaccine that prevents this happening is insane to me

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Marcellus II 1 year ago

Well, autism was severely underdiagnosed then, I'd say until the 90s. Even in the 2000s, french doctors swore autism was caused by 'cold mothers'... read up on it, it's scary.

4points

Glen Ellyn 1 year ago

Yes. I always thought that the reason we see more autism today is because doctors are better at diagnosing it.

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

since many scientists are on the ASD spectrum, and scientists create vaccines, we can conclude that autism causes vaccines.

16points

Brocken Blue 1 year ago

😂 thanks for The chuckle, I needed it

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Cyber Returns 1 year ago

I love asking anti-vaxxers "Would you protest a vaccine that 100% stops autism?"

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Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

Damn, good one! Do their heads implode? It feels like they would.

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Blue_Mouse 1 year ago

How do people still believe this???

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Dr 1 year ago

People are stupid. Spend enough time on BP and you will realise this.

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Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

Well, you know… They’re misinformed and get stuck in an easy explanation. It’s about fear too, I think, and it’s about guilt. I work in mental health, specialized on neuropsychiatry, I’ve spoken to many parents - of children or adults with autism, age doesn’t seem to matter - who clings to the idea that there was an outside factor, something unexpected and unconnected, that caused their childrens autism, in order to fend off the guilt that easily follows being told your child is autistic. Is it my fault? Did we have children with each other when we shouldn’t have? Is it from my family? Yours? … Do I have it? Dear god; do I have it? Have I done this to my child? Was it me? That above all else, I’d say; “was it me?” And the answer, of course, is yes; one or both of you were the “cause” - but only because it is in your DNA, and you can’t control that. Most had no clue beforehand, nothing could, or should - autism doesn’t have to be a tragedy - have been done differently. But the guilt is still there.

4points

Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

And so they seek anything and everything they can use as a weapon to fend off that screaming, enraged guilt - vaccines as an explanation is sometimes very welcome then, and can be hard to let go of. If you do, everything else comes through; the knowledge that it came from one of you, the realization that it’s life long and will never, ever go away, that there is no “cure”, because autism isn’t what they HAVE, autistic is what they ARE, and so what is now will remain. Their children will learn and change, but they’ll never be, so to speak, “normal” - they’ll stay outside of the norm their whole life. Those things can be heavy to handle, it’s tough shìt to deal with. Some have a hard time with it. So quite a bit of it comes from those people, I’d say; they tend to want to make the whole world believe with them, possibly to validate their own false and slightly desperate conviction, so they’re often very loud about it.

3points

What?? 1 year ago

101 ways to tell someone's a idiot: 'vaccines cause autism'

4points

Joe Publique 1 year ago

Lots of scientists are somewhere on the spectrum, therefore it could be argued that autism causes vaccines. Go figure...

2points

Jane Cortez 1 year ago

Fodder for those who do not read, watch infomercials for educational purposes, survived drinking bleach as a homemade colonic.

2points

Onion Cutting Ninja 1 year ago

wait... do some people actually think this?

2points

Ashen Mccann (They/Them) 1 year ago

sadly, many people think this.

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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago

Yeah, I think more people should get their medical information from former Playboy Bunnies (looking at you Jenny McCarthy. You're a complete moron).

2points

Mystery Egg 1 year ago

The doctor that suggested this had taken out a patent for single vaccines just before studying the mixed MMR jab. His results were that the mixed MMR jab caused autism but he only tested 6 children, refused to re-do the study and some of the kids already had autism. If he could have proved it, he would have been a multi millionaire overnight because of the singe Vaccine patent. He was also stuck off for medical negligence a year later. He moved to the US and started peddling his nonsense.

2points

Ray McArdle 1 year ago

Sadly, Don Imus (US deceased talk show host) promoted this on his show. There's no evidence for it.

2points

Martine Borge Premium 1 year ago

My argument will always be; ok, but would you rather have a child with autism or a child that is dead?

1point

Lily from England 1 year ago

As someone with an Autistic sister. People need to stop fking staying this. It’s utter bullsh*t - and you just look like a tw*t. 🙈

1point

KimB 1 year ago

Insert eye roll....

1point

Tanya Loewen-Watson 1 year ago

Yes!! I have 2 w/ autism and vaccines did NOT cause it!!

1point

Ashen Mccann (They/Them) 1 year ago

my friends mom thinks Tylenol causes autism....their adopted they dont know s**t about his mom.

1point

Redhen 1 year ago

As a late diagnosed adult on the autism spectrum I get tired of having to continue reading about it.

1point

Gg 1 year ago

The video by Penn and Teller was the best on this

1point

KnightOwl 1 year ago

Even if they did cause autism, I'd rather have an autistic kid than a dead one. I have 5 autistic neices and nephews and wouldn't change a thing about any of them.

1point

SuperDarkStudios 1 year ago

My grandmothers a believer of this sadly..

1point

Jan Bowyer 1 year ago

I sometimes wonder if the faux news watchers are of an age where Cronkite and other credible media reported news and were completely trustworthy. The antis are just very slow to realize that the Tuckers, Seans, et al are nowhere near as honest as the news media people were back in the 60's and 70's.

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MDPratt 9 months ago

You can’t say this enough!! Vaccines do not cause AUTISM!!! Like and_a_touch_of_the_’tism said AUTISM IS A NEUROLOGICAL CONDITION DETERMINED BEFORE BIRTH, TYPICALLY CAUSED BY GENETIC FACTORS

0points

Tex Beaumont 1 year ago

They do.

0points

Dave Kerr 1 year ago

Don't tell Robert F Kennedy Jr. He is running for president and hates vaccines.

0points

Casmera Norwich 1 year ago

I wish those Hollywood know-nothing influencers would keep their unfounded "medical information" to themselves. So many people have been harmed by believing that vaccines are bad....

0points

Doodles1983 1 year ago

Genetic disposition is a cause. But genuine stress and poor health and well-being in either parent before conception is a problem. And inflammation is a huge problem in most cases.

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Gwenn Kuhns 1 year ago

Finding that a lot of children that have Autism and ADD/ADHD have a relative that was exposed to Agent Orange

0points

Just Sayin 1 year ago

Everyone in here think they know it all or specialize in Autism . Wow. How about if it really does cause autism? How would you know it doesn't? I'm not saying it does but what if.....

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Ellie Ahmed 1 year ago

And what if staring at the clouds during pregnancy causes autism? And what if that one time you ate a piece of carrot in 5th grade caused it? What if it's all that dihydrogen monoxide you've been swilling? Unless you specialise in autism, you can't prove they aren't responsible. You can't prove that every single thing that you've ever done in your entire life didn't cause it. You can't prove that autism isn't a myth. You can't prove the moon landing isn't fake. You can't prove that the moon itself isn't fake. One of the fantastic things about science is that we don't have to treat every nonsense hypothesis as equally plausible. We can use our energy researching things that might actually be worthwhile.

2points

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