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Some stories sound too unrealistic to be true. That’s because quite often they aren’t. Whether it’s a myth, a conspiracy theory, or simply a lie someone blurted out, it might spread among people, making some of them actually believe it. And when they do, they are inclined to tell others about it.

Looking for some of the most unbelievable stories people consider to be true, redditors have repeatedly turned to the ‘Ask Reddit’ community with a question—what is the dumbest myth you have ever heard? The abundance of answers they received covered everything from dinosaur remains being planted by the government to people looking for gold for aliens. Scroll down to find more of their unbelievable answers.

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35 Annoying Myths And Conspiracies That People Really Need To Stop Believing Vaccines cause autism.

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Budcot
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me too. When asked if they would rather their child die from a preventable disease than be like me, they can't backpedal fast enough

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Loverboy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually a large amount of scientists are on the spectrum, so technically autism causes vaccines.

Saint Tim the Godless
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. At what point did our legal systems decide that lies, hoaxes and grifts are protected by "free speech"? Vax your f*****g kids, or don't send them to public school.

Huddo's sister
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a legal requirement where I live. Even to attend preschool/childcare they have to have the proof of immunisation to attend and update it at each milestone, unless they have a medical condition that requires them to be delayed.

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Geerawr22
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Husbands family truly believe that the vaccines caused their child to have autism (in Australia) and then it excuses the fact they are just terrible parents.

LH25
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heard that one. And while there is a very slight risk from some COVID vaccines, there is also a risk from having had COVID. You are up to 10 times more likely to get a blood clot from having COVID than the vaccine.

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slow loris (any pronouns)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t understand the reasoning behind this way of thinking. There is little to no evidence for this! For autistic people, I’m sorry that these kinds of people exist.

Brian D
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was a researcher who was trying to sell something, if i remember correctly, so he falsified some results. His research was examined and shredded, but the effects linger on. 🤨

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Kathryn Baylis
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Based on biased, falsified research, not conducted according to scientific method, and found to be unreplicatable by other researchers. Done by a doctor with an agenda against pharmaceutical companies manufacturing vaccines. Not only has his research been invalidated, Andrew Wakefield is now no longer allowed to practice medicine because of his dangerous research which has unfortunately set a dangerous precedent and created the highly toxic and medically harmful anti-vaxxer movement—-adults who themselves were vaccinated (because their parents weren’t kooks) and therefore spared all the most life-threatening childhood diseases, now forcing their children to try to make it to adulthood unvaccinated. However, as the children of anti-vaxxers turn 18, they tend to run to a clinic to get fully vaccinated, and their parents, even with all their crystals and essential oils, can’t do a damned thing to stop them.

Sky Render
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's really sad is, if you dig into the story behind that idiotic belief, it was dubious from day 1 and fully debunked by 2004. But just like John Money's horrible philosophy on infant genital mutilation, it persists almost 20 years after being thoroughly proven wrong.

BarBeeGirl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter swears her son "caught" autism from with vaccines. It's so sad

Sophia Hershberger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate everything that comes with this one, first of all the jumps in science. second, I absolutely despise how it suggests that autism is a bad thing.

Wondering Alice
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had my mmr over 40 years ago, and was one of the statistical almost non existent bad reaction cases. It's before i can remember but a few months on hospital. On the other hand, we moved to an area with poor mmr uptake (not sure why, it was a long time before the autism lie) messals and rubella killed a few and left many with life long problems. I have had a few bad reactions to other vaccinations, but im a strong believer that vaccines are absoulutly fantastic.

Joshua David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a FIRM believer of survival of the fittest and natural selection. If they believe that, then they'll find out.

Edward Dwyer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex's son was clearly autistic and she denied it AND he was unvaccinated.

KnightOwl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So dumb. Also even if they did, I'd rather have an autistic kid than a dead one.

Annie Persson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think a reason might be that autism becomes detectable about the age of the first vaccines, and the human brain is a pattern seeker, so when two things happen almost at the same time they _must_ be related, right? It can't be that things happen without causation....

Edward Dwyer
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex didn't believe in vaccines. She never told me. I only knew because I saw her sign a disclaimer for her 8 y/o son (not mine) that he wasn't vaccinated. They (Kids Quest) let him play anyway. He was clearly autistic. My mother and I asked about it and she denied it. She has an adopted daughter who for sure is diagnosed autistic and she admits that. But not her son. She wanted to have a child with me, but my sperm is slow. She had a trying childbirth so I didn't press the thought. A blessing in disguise I guess cuz my children will be vaccinated.

Lace Neil
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The mmr vaccine wasn't around when I was a kid, so neither my older brother or I got it. My two younger brothers had the mmr as kids. My older brother and I are both autistic.

Narelle Hussy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

makes me kinda sad & mad when an anti vax opens their mouth, i lost a daughter 2 S.I.D.S so i dont understand how a parent plays Russian roulette with their childs life regarding "autism" So you would rather a dead kid instead of live one? (AUTISM IS NOT CAUSED BY VACCINES) And even if it was id still giv it rather than hav 2 bury another child, i dont understand why somebody would take that chance by choice, believe me when i say burying your child takes your life as well.. and it aint repairable VACCINATE YOUR F*****G KIDS😠

I love my golden retriever
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can anyone still think this?! It was 1 discredited study years ago and has been disproved over and over!

Ken Beattie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've said this before, but I think it's worth repeating. I don't see how vaccines can cause autism in the recipient (ie: child), because changes would need to be at a genetic level. I think it's *possible* but *unlikely* that they may cause changes in subsequent generations. Think along the lines of Thalidomide or the Zika virus causing problems for pregnant mothers. That said, we've been using vaccines for a long time now and there is no real evidence that this is happening, so it seems pretty damned unlikely to me.

Irish cailín
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a mother of a beautiful autistic daughter this shite makes me angry. Obviously autism sure isn't caused by vaccines, but even if this was "true" I can tell you I'd rather have a daughter that's autistic rather than not alive because of catching a preventable disease that has a vaccine to prevent it. There's literally now some cases of TB popping up every year in my country because of unvaccinated people, when it was pretty much eradicated to the point they stopped giving the vaccine for it to babies because it wasn't needed any more.

真壁まつり
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't come up with any possible connections between those 2. any explanation or insights?

Couragetcd
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. Reading the viewpoints here is really eye opening. Not that I ever thought that vaccines caused autism, but because I've always rolled my eyes at the stupidity, I never thought any further than that. It never occurred to me how hearing this c**p could make autistic people feel, even though my daughter is on the spectrum. I'll have to ask her about her POV on this next time we talk.

Moezzzz
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know, back in the early days of, well, time, they just called a lot of us "lunatics". They've just now figured out what we are

Duncan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am pro vaccine but I did think that when I have a vaccine, it stops me getting what I am vaccinated for. The Covid 'vaccine' is different though, I am triple vaccinated but still got it. I have had vaccines for Malaria, polio, flu etc etc. Haven't got those, so what is the covid injection? We might need a new term. It isn't what I would define as a vaccine.

Meowmeow
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But new studies have shown a link to pregnant women taking Tylenol causing increased risk of their unborn child having autism and or ADHD

A Happy Doggo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What does that have to do with vaccines? Tylenol is strong stuff and can cause damage to your body regardless

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A Happy Doggo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Proof? The only way it’s “proven” to be true is that it isn’t proven to not be true.

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Mario Strada
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Among the many things I dislike about antivaxxer is the absolutely unwarranted arrogance of knowing more than actual doctors and letting you know every time they open their mouth. In fact, I won't ever tell them "Vaccines are 100% safe". That's because they are not and everyone reacts differently (ask me about the last shingle vaccine I got. My wife and I didn't get out of bed for 3 days). Not them. They know everything and they are arrogant about it.

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So does meat, beer, being a republican and whatever.

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Cannot be stated with scientific certainty. Only a double blind study where some kids were deliberatly not vaccinated, exposing them to all the diseases, would show rates of autism in the vaccinated and unvaccinated. This study that would prove this would not pass ethics requirements and hasn't been performed. Thus it cannot stated either way, STOP REPEATING THIS B******T in either direction.

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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!

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Loverboy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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#5

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

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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

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#7

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

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Loverboy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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#9

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

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Jill Rhodry
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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Libstak
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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....

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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.

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

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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.

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oktopus
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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Loverboy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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censorshipsucks
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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Loverboy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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."

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CV Vir
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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General Anaesthesia
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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Doctor Strange
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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

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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?

dubefest , Michael & Diane Weidner Report

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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CV Vir
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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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

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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

fluffy-muffin , Evonne Yuwen Teoh Report

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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

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#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

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censorshipsucks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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

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Robert T
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"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

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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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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

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LadyKing
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#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

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OhnoI’vebeencensored
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#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

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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.

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Doctor Strange
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

#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?

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Robert T
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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

#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.

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Tucker Cahooter
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#44

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

Jfonzy , Joel Arbaje Report

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Loverboy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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#45

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

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Bernd Herbert
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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

anon Report

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oktopus
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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