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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Aside from everything in the bible itself, my mom told me that bibles could not burn because they contained the word of God so God protected them from being destroyed. She told me there were many instances of entire houses burning down but the bible(s) remaining intact and virtually unscathed. So I burned a bible when I was about 8 years old. Myth busted!

Jeditard , Aaron Burden Report

Final score:

321points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

lmfao I can only imagine the horror on her face when you burned a bible and I love it

165points

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing scientology

ReMiCkS_25 , Alexey Taktarov Report

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307points

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Loverboy 1 year ago (edited)

Religion as a whole, fight me.

200points

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Your birthday decides who you are as a person

bauchwech , Nikhita Singhal Report

Final score:

248points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

Such an Aries thing to say.

289points

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing The earth is only 6000 years old. Tell that to the Sumerians

rawbamatic , Michel wal Report

Final score:

233points

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Ray McArdle 1 year ago

And Jesus died for your sins. Part of the biggest hoax in humanity

33points

ComprehensiveScore4 , Anastasiia Chepinska Report

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing My MIL got mad at me for reaching up high to grab something while pregnant because, "That'll wrap the umbilical cord around the baby's neck!"I told her that no part of my anatomy directly connects my arms to the inside of my placenta. She didn't believe me so I googled to show her it's an old wives tale. She got upset and cried. :/ Sweet lady but damn. Use some common sense

Final score:

222points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

people are really committed to their stupid beliefs.

81points

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing If you have "organ donor" on your driver's license then EMTs will let you die to take your organs

ajfirnfh , Yassine Khalfalli Report

Final score:

221points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

You don't need to call an ambulance to have your organs taken, I'll do it for free.

106points

𖤐 a m y 𖤐 1 year ago

hmm, this isn’t suspicious at all! when can we start?

16points

Sebby's Mama 1 year ago

In the US you have to sell an organ to afford a ride in an ambulance

17points

Maisey Myles 1 year ago

Yeah because an organ is much more than an arm and a leg

3points

potatoe 1 year ago (edited)

Like in a few corrupt places it could be possible ig as organ trafficking is sadly a thing in the world

15points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

plausible in some countries. mine for example.

12points

Blondie23 1 year ago

that's cute... as if the EMTs would even stop to look at your license. I have never heard this one until today. crazy

11points

Ken Beattie 1 year ago

I've heard it trotted out as an excuse not to tick the organ donor box on your license. Seems ridiculous to me. Considering just how many people are donors, there'd be thousands of deaths in ambulances a year.

2points

Jan Bowyer 1 year ago

On behalf of all first responders, I cry BS on this. NO ONE works more diligently to save lives.

9points

Sabra Faire 1 year ago

Thank you all first responders for your tireless dedication.

2points

Emma London 1 year ago

This angers me. Just imagine how many viable potential donations are trashed yearly because of this belief.

8points

Min 1 year ago

I used to have a license plate that encouraged organ donation and one of my co-workers was really upset by it, constantly warning me that someone in need of an organ would intentionally crash into me.

7points

Nadine Saloum 1 year ago

I hope you put your blood type on there to be extra helpful, I don't wanna scratch my car for nothing

0points

Vasana Phong 1 year ago

This is some black market s**t going on

5points

Queen Mab 1 year ago

This myth would require that EMTs are callous people that would refuse to help people. This idea is ridiculous. Do people really believe this nonsense?

4points

Ash 1 year ago

This probably happen.

4points

D. Pitbull 1 year ago

Remembering a Monty Python Skit.... someone... please...?

3points

Annie Persson 1 year ago

May we have your liver please

0points

pico diablo 1 year ago (edited)

Can we have your liver, then? . . . https://montypython.gifglobe.com/scene/?frame=MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife-sGjOluo4

3points

JB 1 year ago

I have class 5 (motorbike in Canada) on my license. Apparently, we are commonly referred to as ‘organ donor’ by many emergency services. I’ll freely admit some riders (looking at you idiots who think wearing all the protective gear is weak/unnecessary) are riding in the oft proven wrong assumption they will never have an accident. Bottom line is it don’t matter how slow you are going, falling off hurts and is more likely to result in fatality than being enclosed by a metal frame. Wear all the protective gear and ride like everyone on the road is a homicidal maniac out to destroy you. Then you can hope to achieve my status: old and too fat to fit into my gear from 5 years ago.

2points

Josh 1 year ago

I had a lady at the grocery store tell me once that the hospital killed her daughter. Specifically, that her daughter "died on the operating table, as they were harvesting her organs." I didn't know how to tell her that people rarely survive organ harvesting.

2points

Pandapoo 1 year ago

They won’t let you die, they’ll put you on life support (if you make it to the hospital) and harvest them while you are “alive”.

2points

Just me, myself, and I 1 year ago

"In order to be an organ donor, you have to be in a hospital, on a ventilator, and have some type of neurologically devastating injury," said Heather Mekesa, the Chief Operations Officer of Lifebanc, Northeast Ohio's organ procurement organization.

2points

Suck it Trebek 1 year ago

That is a blatant lie.

1point

SZ 1 year ago

Nah, they can't collect money from you if you're dead.

1point

Thatkamloopsguy 1 year ago

I call bull sh it on this one.

1point

ADJ 1 year ago

In my country you are organ donor by default, but you can opt out if for some reason you do not want to do the right thing.

1point

StrangeOne 1 year ago

That's not fair to say. Some people cannot donate organs due to medical reasons that deem the organs untransferable. There's no need to shame people if they decide to opt out.

1point

GemmaL 1 year ago

What a load of c**p lol

1point

Laura Lett 1 year ago

Making my brain hurt.

1point

That Goth Demon (zey/zem) 1 year ago

NOPE

1point

mysterious(all pronouns) 1 year ago

You have to die IN the hospital, and all your organs have to be in condition, and they want you to live.

0points

Huddo's sister 1 year ago

People believe this?? They can't even use your organs if you actually die outside the hospital. Also can't use them without permission form your family (at least in Australia) regardless of you being on the donor list (unless they get the court involved).

0points

Red Wyvern Emperor 1 year ago

Why do I feel like this one is from USA? XD

0points

Tim B 1 year ago

I have mine posted on an online auction in India.

0points

Ted Higgins 1 year ago

Well as I Liver & Breathe you Kidney be up to those wee EMTs.

0points

Anthony Nizza 1 year ago

LOOOOOOOOOOL

0points

Robert Davis 1 year ago

I carry a StoneCutters card so this won't happen to me.

0points

Timbob 1 year ago

Monty Python started taking organs before people died, years ago !

0points

Bill Walker 1 year ago

Dirty Bumper Sticker: "I don't have to be dead to donate my organ"

0points

Jared Robinson 1 year ago

Maybe not EMT's but doctors sure will push harder to take you off life support. And that is not a myth it is well documented.

0points

StrangeOne 1 year ago

I assume it's more about freeing up beds and devices. The maternity ward here is just like that, too. If a new mom is in labour for hours the docs get impatient and start forcing the labour to progress faster. One nurse told me outright I had to "hurry up" cos I was taking up a bed and a room. The bedside mannerisms in North America are getting pretty bad.

3points

Jan Bowyer 1 year ago

My god, are there really that many conspiracy wackos out there? Stupid, ignorant, gullible.

0points

Bunny Sidhu 1 year ago

CCP has joined the chat.

0points

Ivona 1 year ago

They may not make as much of an effort to save the potential donor.

-1point

Pablo Ramos 1 year ago

Well... if an emergency triage surgeon that works nights has a fiancee in a transplant list and you arrive, young, healthy, and badly hurt...

-1point

Jennifer Schager 1 year ago

Can confirm.

-1point

Israel Martinez 1 year ago

The other one is that if you abstain from being a donor, that they still won't take them ...

-2points

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing That dwarfs didn't exist before World War 2.

A friend tried to tell me that They were bred by the Australians to be able to hide in kangaroo pouches and 'sneak attack' if the country was ever invaded.

We're not friends anymore.

The_Master_of_LOLZ , Mark Galer Report

Final score:

220points

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kissmychakram 1 year ago

I strongly suspect marijuana was involved somewhere along the line.

150points

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing The world is flat, and it only looks round from space due to gravity distorting light.

Dr_Graves , NASA Report

Final score:

204points

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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago

It's obvious that the world isn't flat, cats would've knocked everything off over the edge.

32points

#10

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Breatharianism. The idea that people can live without food and all we really need to survive is oxygen. Not sure how this group still exists

Akatsiya , Artem Kovalev Report

Final score:

195points

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Libstak 1 year ago (edited)

There was a documentary on these types following the word of some lady in Queensland, Australia. She swore she hadn't needed food in years all she needed was air. They caught her wolfing down some Tim Tams, suddenly it was okay to give your taste buds some joy on rare occasions but not necessary....

20points

#11

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Dinosaurs were placed in the ground by the government in order to discredit religious people and prove evolution...or something like that. I can't remember the details. It gave me an aneurysm.

deleted , Jon Butterworth Report

Final score:

183points

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Robert T 1 year ago

I thought was done by Slartibartfast and his mates.

105points

#12

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing we only use 10% of our brains

Black-Byte , Robina Weermeijer Report

Final score:

179points

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potatoe 1 year ago (edited)

People like trump certainly only use 0.0001% of theirs

170points

#13

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Whales control the weather and are currently causing global warming.

Because apparently their movements affect ocean currents or air currents or I don't even know what. I wish I were making this up.

dynamouse , Todd Cravens Report

Final score:

176points

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oktopus 1 year ago

First I've heard of that. Though to be honest I'm more worried about those butterflies causing hurricanes.

23points

#14

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing A black cat is an omen of bad luck and if one crosses your way you have idk how many years of bad luck. Along the same lines is the mirror 7 years of bad luck, and walking under a ladder. Like, excuse me? Can that cat ration enough to put a f**king spell on you?? And how tf are inanimate objects gonna cast a f**king spell????? Like it just seems extremely dumb

ComicCat-Laz , Clément Falize Report

Final score:

176points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

Black cats are literally the most precious creatures on planet Earth, how dare you

147points

#15

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing As recently as 1993, when I had my youngest child, there were people telling me during my pregnancy to get rid of my cat because it would get in the crib and "take the baby's breath away." The fact that I had an almost-four-year-old who survived household cats didn't hold water with them.

sirdigbykittencaesar , Kari Shea Report

Final score:

168points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)

The issue is the cat is a selfish beast who will sleep on top of the baby, because a cat is programmed to find something squishy and warm to sleep on. It's not a frequent issue but you need to make sure they can't. The much bigger risk is their litter tray. It contains poops with toxoplasmodium gondii in it. You want to clean that often with gloves and wash hands after.

72points

#16

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing David Icke's theory That every world leader, member of royalty and figure of importance is reptilian.

0wl-Exterminator , Annie Spratt Report

Final score:

167points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

As an anthropomorphic reptile I can confirm that the president is a lizard. And Mark Zuckerberg.

105points

#17

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing I can't decide which one of these are worse.

- Having a discussion with a friend and his buddy about Bruce Lee. Then the topic of his death comes up. The conspiracy theories start to fly but it didn't really get too ridiculous until my friend's buddy piped up.

"Bruce Lee actually died when he set himself on fire while cooking hot dogs. They covered it up because no one wanted to think that the world's greatest martial artist would have done that to himself. But anyone who does a little reading will know this."

- At work we were discussing fighting games. The one guy then blurts out that the reason Asians are so good at these games is that the machines are built by other Asians to have *genetic decoders* built into the buttons. Once the machine verifies that you are Asian, the game gives you unfair advantages over your opponent. He was completely serious about this theory. When he was finished talking, there was a good 8 seconds of complete silence until my friend piped up and says, "That's.....got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard."

InferiousX , Man Chung Report

Final score:

160points

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CV Vir 1 year ago

This person has no idea how DNA testing is actually accomplished, do they?

8points

#18

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing An idiot told my wife a few weeks ago that if you are being mugged at an ATM you need to type in your PIN backwards. He thinks this will allow you to withdraw money as normal but "alerts" the police who dispatch a squad car to your location imediately.

When she asked what about people with mirror image PINs and PINs such as 4444 he still maintained that he was right. No actual answer, just insisted he was correct.

Creabhain , Eduardo Soares Report

Final score:

156points

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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago

You type the last four first, then the second to last and so on. Do we need to explain everything to you?

68points

#19

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing My father once told with with absolute seriousness that if a snake bites you, and you survive, the snake dies instead. Apparently this is an old wives tale from India, but he defended it for a solid ten minutes before begrudgingly admitting that it didn't make any sense

Nightslayer9522 , Tyler B Report

Final score:

148points

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Doctor Strange 1 year ago

If it bites you and you die, its venomous. If you bite it and you die, its poisonous. If you both bite each other and neither of you die, its kinky

176points

#20

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing The moon landing is fake.

feel_the_burns , NASA Report

Final score:

146points

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Doctor Strange 1 year ago

The American government did, indeed, film the moon landing. However, they hired Stanley Kubrick to direct the film, and he was such a perfectionist that he insisted on shooting on location.

35points

wizmey , Hush Naidoo Jade Photography Report

#21

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing So many people genuinely believe blood is blue inside their body

Final score:

144points

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troufaki13 1 year ago

Except the reptilians. They have green!

93points

dubefest , Michael & Diane Weidner Report

#22

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing There is an activist group (with a large following) that claims that clouds in the sky are not real. They are just figments of everyone's imaginations because the government brain washes everyone into thinking clouds exist.

Seriously?

Final score:

133points

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Roy Briggs 1 year ago

Everybody knows that clouds are the remnants of Ymir's brians.... duh!

9points

#23

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing My all time favorite is Chinese buffets are just a way of making us fatter and easier to invade.

ChiefChivo , Ulysse Pointcheval Report

Final score:

131points

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Karl 1 year ago

Seems to be working

120points

#24

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing A coworker of mine believes that if you play the phrase "Yes we can." backwards, it sounds suspiciously like "Thank you Satan.", and so Obama must have made a pact with the devil in order to win the presidency. The strangest part is that he isn't particularly political, or outspokenly partisan. His real concern is ACTUALLY Satan.

Produent , Markus Spiske Report

Final score:

126points

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Sad Quokka 1 year ago

Nac ew sey

62points

#25

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing That if you startle a pregnant woman the baby will come out cross eyed

m0ther0fg0ds , Ömürden Cengiz Report

Final score:

124points

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Sad Quokka 1 year ago

Tbf I wanna try this

81points

#26

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Magnetic balance improving bracelets. I will immediately write you off as dumb or at least very gullible if you wear one of those those things.

Nsekiil , Stephen Leonardi Report

Final score:

122points

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CV Vir 1 year ago

However, the placebo effect is real and it’s possible that this is one example.

58points

#27

Freemason here.

I am constantly amazed by the people who claim that Freemasons have some kind of New World Order conspiracy going on. The only thing even *more* amazing is how people who are **not** Freemasons can describe to me in detail how the entire conspiracy works, except that I, myself (you know, the guy who's *actually* a Mason), don't know about it because I'm apparently not high ranking enough.

For those who don't know, there is no "head" of Freemasons. It's a fairly loose conglomerate of Grand Lodges which oversee local lodges. In the US and Canada, each state/province has it's own head 9Grand Lodge) - there isn't any national head. In Great Britain, England, Scotland, Ireland each have their own Grand Lodges. There's no head of the organization to flow down any kinds of instructions.

Also consider: Local lodges are filled with (mainly older) members of the community, like your grandfather, uncle, the neighbor across the street, etc. Generally, I'm amazed that the local lodges can successfully plan a charity fund raiser (or sometimes, even a picnic). Planning a far-reaching extra-government conspiracy is, well, you know. Just nuts.

taonzen Report

Final score:

121points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Yep. I know a few masons and they couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery.

67points

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#28

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Birth control pills will cause the downfall of society.

As my sociology professor explained, "Birth control pills let women have all the sex they want and don't have to worry about having babies, and there are more and more women who are using them and never settling down and having families. With no women getting pregnant anymore, the government will have to step in and start creating a workforce using cloning technology. These clones will grow up in a government-controlled school and trained to be mindless automatons whose goal in life is to work and to serve their government masters - they will be chemically neutered so that they aren't concerned about sex and marriage, and they will all be the same race."

Funny enough, he never thought about what would happen when the government officials die off and there are only clones left.

Diredoe , Thought Catalog Report

Final score:

113points

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JoyfulZebra 1 year ago

How is this person a professor???

107points

fluffy-muffin , Evonne Yuwen Teoh Report

#29

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Some guy told me about how the Illuminati gets two dead bodies every year and place them in the Coca Cola tanks. Then they use them to ferment the Coca Cola the public drinks to control us

Final score:

111points

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Pink Princess 1 year ago

Lol I don't drink coca cola. I hate the taste of soft drinks

30points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#30

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing That the Mona Lisa is actually Leonardo da Vinci in drag

deleted , The Free Birds Report

Final score:

106points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

Honestly, don't hate the idea

126points

#31

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing A moron I worked with, swore that the diet Pepsi I was drinking was flavored with aborted fetuses from planned parenthood... He was serious.. Google it... This dude had tattoos on his eyelids too, so not real bright to begin with

OB-14 , Andrew George Report

Final score:

106points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

because yes, the illuminati really have time, interest or energy to do s**t like that. for what end? I always ask these nuts (a) for what purpose would they do that and (b) how does it make them money or give them more power? They can never explain.

31points

#32

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Definitely the Korean urban myth of sleeping with a fan on will you. I’ve heard it explained as the blades chopping up the air creating gaps so that you suffocate in your sleep

LosAngelesLio , Andrew George Report

Final score:

105points

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Robert T 1 year ago

This has all the hallmarks of a parent trying to get the kids to turn the fan off at night to save electricity.

113points

#33

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing In the past few months my friend went out with a girl that said she didn't believe in dinosaurs, I don't know why this bothers me so much I mean who cares what someone else thinks right? But f*****g hell dinosaurs the evidence is so f*****g overwhelming it's like saying every night the people from the Truman Show turn on the moon.

rozyhammer , Markus Spiske Report

Final score:

95points

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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago

"People from the Truman Show turn on the moon"...sounds interesting...make sure David Icke gets to hear about that and he can weave that into a worldwide conspiracy involving the Pope, the Illuminati, the Royal Family and Jews and publish a thick boring book on it

14points

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#34

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Illuminati conspiracy is the dumbest s**t I've ever heard of. I even heard that they controlled the earthquakes in Haiti

punkgx , Thought Catalog Report

Final score:

93points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Not just Haiti, but also they are allegedly reptilians who drink adrenochrome etc etc. Idiots will swallow anyhting that sounds outrageous.

28points

#35

The Phantom Time hypothesis. That 300 years of European history between 600-900 AD were just made up.

This is also my favorite conspiracy theory.

Seamus_OReilly Report

Final score:

78points

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Bell-acose Premium 1 year ago

I prefer the phantom thyme theory. you know…how oregano and thyme are the same herb, just marketed differently in order to make the lizard people more money so they can fund their nefarious schemes.

24points

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#36

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Hollow Earth theory. One of my co-workers asked if I had heard of it and then very seriously told me to look it up. I thought she was kidding until I talked to her again about and it turns out she was completely serious.

dejerik , NASA Report

Final score:

33points

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LadyKing 1 year ago

My birth giver believes the moon is hollow and is a satellite placed by aliens to watch us. We don’t speak

7points

#37

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing If you are in a cold environment you'll catch a cold

missile_201 , Rex Pickar Report

Final score:

33points

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OhnoI’vebeencensored 1 year ago

This one actually has some truth. If you are cold (i.e., colder than you are used to) your immune system is suppressed and you're more likely to get ill. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/scientists-finally-figure-out-why-youre-more-likely-to-get-sick-in-cold-weather

34points

#38

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing That Hello Kitty's creator made a deal with the devil to save her daughter that had mouth cancer and that's why she created hello Kitty.

Lis_9 , Jiaqi Zhang Report

Final score:

32points

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Sad Quokka 1 year ago

So hello Kitty is evil?

15points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#39

That the pyramids were built by ancient aliens to land their spacecraft on. This same theory incorporates further pyramids on the moon that astronauts from various missions know about.

Everyone get your tin foil hats.

WhiskyBraj Report

Final score:

31points

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Doctor Strange 1 year ago

Well yeah, everyone knows about this. Where else do the aliens keep their stargates?

19points

#40

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Aliens put humans on earth to find gold for them

weaponx47 , Stephen Leonardi Report

Final score:

31points

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Anxiousguest 1 year ago

They just have to go to India. Have you not seen our weddings??

44points

#41

This thing that keeps coming up that, somehow, the US government is engineering a new flu and wants the American people people to get it. I work in infectious disease research and this comes up so often when people want to talk about my work, I can't even tell you. The whole thing is so baffling I don't even know how to address it: why would the US government want to give AMERICAN people the flu? Where does this even come from?

zazzlekdazzle Report

Final score:

30points

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Robert T 1 year ago

It's a genetically modified flu that with make the people easier to control. It goes by the name Donald. ;-)

25points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#42

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing If you have a sat nav/gps it's really the government spying on you and can control your car.

sbdores , Brecht Denil Report

Final score:

29points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

You have a phone, don't you? Why would they need your gps?

6points

#43

I met my new downstairs neighbor a few months back. He asked for a ride to work, I obliged, and well, let's just say i learned a lot about him in around ten minutes. The very first thing on the drive that comes out of his mouth is this, "Okay so you know how there are organic beings floating around in the sky that can travel thousands of miles an hour and make 90 degree turns within the blink of an eye? Well I think the government is going to tell us that they are angels and that they are good for humanity. Because angels are supposed to protect us right? They gain our trust. The thing is, I think they are actually demons who told the government to tell us that they are angels, so we think we are safe and protected for the alien invasion that is sure to come. But the aliens have been here working with our government for years now, and this is all their idea to keep us regular citizens more manageable."
This was only the beginning.

tl;dr - My downstairs neighbor has 'yo dawg' conspiracy theories.

reddit.com Report

Final score:

29points

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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago

Hopefully that was the last time OP gave him a ride, or even talked to him

11points

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#44

35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Bermuda Triangle

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29points

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Loverboy 1 year ago

Technically the Bermuda Triangle is backed by science, the sea monsters thing is fake but it is a strange area.

16points

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#45

Anything. To. Do. With. Mayan. Calendar.

Final score:

24points

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Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

I never got that one, with the Mayan Calendar. The claim the world's gonna end, because the Mayan calendar "stopped". Guys....uhm, my calendar stops every damn year.

29points

#46

When you talk on your cell phone or land line there are people from the NSA listening in real time.

I've heard this from 2 people

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Final score:

23points

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Edda Kamphues 1 year ago

I'm sorry. They'd be bored out of their brains listening to me.

29points

#47

That the government was/is using the Kinect to spy on people in their houses.

anon Report

Final score:

15points

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oktopus 1 year ago

Nah, these Ring doorbells and cameras are for that kind of thing.

12points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

In case it's not obvious, conspiracy theories drive me insane. I have an overwhelming urge to be mean to a person who says stuff like this. No idea why it triggers me so much. Like, I guess I expect everyone to have a modicum of logic.

10points

Petra Schaap 1 year ago

its like talking to religious fanatics. They'll always try to talk themself out of it in a way that doesnt make sense. we had curfew for a while during the lockdowns. People were screaming that it was a list and it was NEVERRRR going to end. So when it ended and i confronted them they said "it was a test, it will come back later" [eye roll] Masks idem dito. it was never gonna end. Oh it did. It was a test. People were screaming we're living in a dictator ship and North Korea is better. So how come you're venting your shti on internet and why dont they shoot you on your demonstrations that were not allowed. Ah i can go on forever geezz

3points

DiscoqueenJ 1 year ago (edited)

Unfortunately, I am seeing this more and more in elderly people. My mom and several of my friend's moms are all "drinking the kool-aid" on all these conspiracies about aliens, the government and some new financial system we are supposedly getting. It makes me more sad than angry. If my mother from 10 years ago heard her say some of the crazy c**p she does now, she would be appalled. She even found a local group that all have the same theories! I couldn't believe it.

1point

Something 1 year ago

They are often linked to hate.

1point

pico diablo 1 year ago

1) If you put salt on a birds tail it won't be able to fly afterwards. 2) If you put a penny on a railroad track, it will shock the conductor when the train runs over it.

6points

Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

You'll get a nice, flat, penny.

7points

Notme 1 year ago

Homeopathy. Crystals. Feng shui. Horoscopes.

5points

Rosie 1 year ago

I've always wanted to come up w/a doozy of a conspiracy, start my own cult or something. I could do it, sci-fi & horror are fun & I love to write! Alas, I could never keep a straight face. Bummer.

2points

Laura Lett 1 year ago

My cousins (twins) where both born with both genitalia. Their parents waited until they were both in their teens to have anything done. One decided on female,the other decided to go make.

2points

Laura Lett 1 year ago

OPPs,male.

4points

Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago

It took more than 20 odd years of marriage before I found out my husband thinks that carbon dating is b******t, and that dinosaurs didn't live that long ago. I was dumbfounded. It's taken a while, but I've managed to explain to him what carbon dating is, and he's come around - but geeze, it scared me! LOL

1point

Jacob B. 1 year ago

I'll add my own "crazy s**t" story. We ate "Kosher" and one day my parents said we can not eat cheese anymore. Because...wait for it....wait for it...ENZYMES! The manufacturers might be using Pork enzymes to make cheese. Me; Why would they use pork enzymes when cow enzymes are already there to make the cheese? Plus the cost to add those enzymes and replace the cow enzymes would make the cost very prohibitive. Thier response; Oh, they will do that to *forgot some bogus reason*. I was fairly independent by then, despite being a teen. told them I thought it was ridiculous and I was going to buy cheese with my own money and that was it. Six months later, they finally admitted what they were "told" was incorrect. Didn't get an apology, but never expected one in the first place. After High School I went directly into a University (a hard one to get into I may add) and they didn't even know I was in a University, they thought I was in a JC.

1point

Kim 1 year ago

Surprised I haven't seen this one yet, but my MIL doesn't believe Covid ever existed 🙄

1point

Jonathan Labelle 1 year ago

for me its the one that they withhelding the foe cure cancer if cancer could be cure that easily they would sell it like Tylenol

1point

Laura Lett 1 year ago

I couldn't make it through this list. The stupidity levels made me have a migraine. I can't anymore.

1point

wowbagger 1 year ago

I remember going through a period around ages 11 to 14, where I would have believed every one of these conspiracy theories. I also loved paranormal stories, alien abduction stories, etc. And I saved my money to order bogus products from the back pages of comic books. Then I outgrew it. I almost envy people who stay in that credulous mindset. There's something fun and magical about it.

1point

WonderWoman 1 year ago

But, critical thinking skills are a huge asset for living and functioning. I don't envy the gullible and those who lack critical thinking, they are dangerous.

6points

Huddo's sister 1 year ago

Many of these were myths or superstitions not conspiracies

0points

Christian Strompen 1 year ago

My favourite conspiracy theory at the moment is, that ōLand and the ōCash- blockchain is a giant hoax. In my opinion 2,5 million users in 10 months without marketing, of which 600000 are active daily just speak for itself.

0points

Daria 1 year ago

And these people can be anywhere around us, and you won't know. They may even have voting rights. Normalizing stupidity (aka "any opinion matters") may have been one of our biggest mistakes.

0points

Travelling Stranger 1 year ago

surprising none of the major entries in this list included religion as a whole

0points

Tyke 1 year ago

When I had a child I was told: 1) Put a wet tissue on their forehead to stop hiccups - poor baby had one on for hours, whilst still hiccuping. 2) If I didn't put the bible in his cot on a certain page, the evil spirits would get him. 3) Cutting a child's hair before they're talking fluently stunts their speech

0points

JoyfulZebra 1 year ago

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0points

Pablo Ramos 1 year ago

Religions. Wake up, people!

-1point

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

10points

Petra Schaap 1 year ago

3points

DiscoqueenJ 1 year ago (edited)

1point

Something 1 year ago

They are often linked to hate.

1point

pico diablo 1 year ago

1) If you put salt on a birds tail it won't be able to fly afterwards. 2) If you put a penny on a railroad track, it will shock the conductor when the train runs over it.

6points

Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

You'll get a nice, flat, penny.

7points

Notme 1 year ago

Homeopathy. Crystals. Feng shui. Horoscopes.

5points

Rosie 1 year ago

I've always wanted to come up w/a doozy of a conspiracy, start my own cult or something. I could do it, sci-fi & horror are fun & I love to write! Alas, I could never keep a straight face. Bummer.

2points

Laura Lett 1 year ago

My cousins (twins) where both born with both genitalia. Their parents waited until they were both in their teens to have anything done. One decided on female,the other decided to go make.

2points

Laura Lett 1 year ago

OPPs,male.

4points

Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago

1point

Jacob B. 1 year ago

1point

Kim 1 year ago

Surprised I haven't seen this one yet, but my MIL doesn't believe Covid ever existed 🙄

1point

Jonathan Labelle 1 year ago

for me its the one that they withhelding the foe cure cancer if cancer could be cure that easily they would sell it like Tylenol

1point

Laura Lett 1 year ago

I couldn't make it through this list. The stupidity levels made me have a migraine. I can't anymore.

1point

wowbagger 1 year ago

1point

WonderWoman 1 year ago

But, critical thinking skills are a huge asset for living and functioning. I don't envy the gullible and those who lack critical thinking, they are dangerous.

6points