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

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.

thatsboxy , Mufid Majnun Report

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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

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

ReMiCkS_25 , Alexey Taktarov Report

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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

bauchwech , Nikhita Singhal Report

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248points

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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

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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

ComprehensiveScore4 , Anastasiia Chepinska Report

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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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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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220points

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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 1 year ago

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

32points

Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

I stopped doing that. Now I just knock off the flat-earthers.

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Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

As Neal DeGrasse Tyson said, all they have to fear is sphere itself.

18points

Just me, myself, and I 1 year ago

I hadn't heard this one. Thanks for the laugh!

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Rayven 1 year ago

I've heard these flat earthers have members all around the globe.

12points

Stardust she/her 1 year ago

My teacher yesterday asked us all the experiments to prove the earth is round and it appalls me how a bunch of high schoolers are smarter than middle aged adults

11points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

so they accept one theory from science but not the other ?

10points

Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

That's how these things usually work. You cherry-pick all of which suits you and discard all the rest

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Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago

Some Flat Earthers refuse to believe gravity exists because it makes an inconveniently large balls-up of their hypothesis. They replace it with *checks notes* outright stupidity.

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Fred L. 1 year ago

"science"

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Loverboy 1 year ago

The earth isn't flat but your brain certainly is if you think that.

9points

Paul Richards 1 year ago

flat earthers are idiots who should be sterilized

5points

Ozymandias73 1 year ago

I still can't fathom how that movement gained such popularity.

3points

Roy Briggs 1 year ago

And the sky is a digital projection.... seriously, I've been told that

3points

Rosie Red 1 year ago

So, is there a giant fence surrounding the planet so we don't fall off the sides?

2points

Just me, myself, and I 1 year ago

They say it's the ice cliffs of Antarctica surrounding the edges. Or the Arctic. Or maybe they've just combined both into one giant ice cube!

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Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago

How do they believe in gravity but not the earth being spherical???

2points

Phandom Apostolis 1 year ago

So, Gravity is real then?

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Temporary Dork 1 year ago

And a lot stronger than we thought!

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ThatRandomGuy 1 year ago

The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe

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Scott Rackley 1 year ago

So gravity can bend light, but not matter. Checks out.

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Nichole Harris 1 year ago

This had gotten so bad we should start a GoFundMe to send these poor folks up in a rocket..... One of musk's exploding ones is fine

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Sabra Faire 1 year ago

Lol

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Emma London 1 year ago

Also the Moon is flat, and it only looks round from space due to gravity distorting light?

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Just me, myself, and I 1 year ago

lol - Don't give them any more theories!

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Will Cable 1 year ago

Just give them a shovel and tell them to dig their way to the other side.

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GhostlySnail (she/her) 1 year ago

People keep arguing over whether the earth is flat or round. Personally, I think we are all riding through space on the shell of a giant snail.

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Rian Macklin 1 year ago

On the back of a giant turtle.

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G'ma B 1 year ago

OMG!

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Nadine Saloum 1 year ago

You wouldn't believe what's on the other side...

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Bleau 1 year ago

Thank Robert Simmon he drew that pic

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Daniele Ribolla 1 year ago

but the best theory of flat earth by the believers is the Sun system explanation... they don't consider the day/night Sun condition and, if theory would be true, the Sun would shine all day on Earth!

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Snowhater 1 year ago

Nasa is lying and they are cooperating with every country on earth to keep the secret. Seems very believable

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Red Wyvern Emperor 1 year ago

I won't even bother making some funny line here. I think all jokes are globally done for.

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Annie Persson 1 year ago

If it was flat, the edge would be great tourist attraction! And don't tell me the edge is hidden/protected by NASA soldiers. If the Earth was flat it would have been flat since forever, probably even decades before NASA was a thing!

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Ken Beattie 1 year ago

I mean ok, so that theory explains the appearance (it doesn't really but we'll run with it), how do we circumnavigate the world then? If I sail east from Australia why don't I fall off? The amount of crazy theories required to justify each obvious problem with the idea should be enough to say "yeah maybe it's not flat after all".

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Snowhater 1 year ago

According to flat earthers we can't do that and everyone that claims they have done that are lying . And the airlines that go from the southern hemisphere to the north is also fake. For fun reading go to the flat earth society forum.They have som crazy theories.

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LaediGrenayd_05 1 year ago

All the flat-earthers I know just say the pictures from space are fake

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cugel. 1 year ago

Read the Jesus thread, you have to respect muh beliefs!

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FreeDragon 1 year ago

If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now.

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ADJ 1 year ago

That reminds me of the article on the internet addressed by flatearthers "To all flatearthers around the globe"

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Roger9er 1 year ago

It is truly unbelievable that there are hordes of people who believe this. Has our IQ had a downgrade or something?

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Cuppa tea? 1 year ago

Not only it's flat, it's also hollow, there is another globe inside - that si flat too, of course.

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Bunny Sidhu 1 year ago

That made my brain hurt 🤕

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Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago

Nah. They don't believe in gravity.

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Ren 1 year ago

nah my mom thinks earth is flat bc the bible says it's flat w/ a dome and nasa is lying💀

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Rahul Pawa 1 year ago

Is there a difference between a flat world that appears round and a round world?

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Giulia Fortunati 1 year ago

My favourite part is the Pac-Man effect!

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Hans Georg 1 year ago

Maybe there is a black hole under the disc.

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Larry XK 1 year ago

That would explain the gravitational lensing

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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

Akatsiya , Artem Kovalev Report

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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.

deleted , Jon Butterworth Report

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183points

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

Black-Byte , Robina Weermeijer Report

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179points

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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.

dynamouse , Todd Cravens Report

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176points

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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

ComicCat-Laz , Clément Falize Report

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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.

sirdigbykittencaesar , Kari Shea Report

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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.

0wl-Exterminator , Annie Spratt Report

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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."

InferiousX , Man Chung Report

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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.

Creabhain , Eduardo Soares Report

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156points

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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

Nightslayer9522 , Tyler B Report

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148points

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

feel_the_burns , NASA Report

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#21

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

wizmey , Hush Naidoo Jade Photography Report

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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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133points

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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.

ChiefChivo , Ulysse Pointcheval Report

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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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126points

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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

m0ther0fg0ds , Ömürden Cengiz Report

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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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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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121points

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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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111points

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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

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106points

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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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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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105points

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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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95points

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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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93points

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#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

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78points

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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

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33points

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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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33points

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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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32points

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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

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31points

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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

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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

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30points

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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

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29points

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

Jfonzy , Joel Arbaje Report

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29points

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#45

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

the_purple_umbrella Report

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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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23points

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#47

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Kim 1 year ago

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Huddo's sister 1 year ago

Many of these were myths or superstitions not conspiracies

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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.

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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.

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Travelling Stranger 1 year ago

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

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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

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JoyfulZebra 1 year ago

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Pablo Ramos 1 year ago

Religions. Wake up, people!

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tomnorford 1 year ago

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

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Petra Schaap 1 year ago

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Something 1 year ago

They are often linked to hate.

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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.

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Deborah Rubin 1 year ago

You'll get a nice, flat, penny.

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Notme 1 year ago

Homeopathy. Crystals. Feng shui. Horoscopes.

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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.

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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.

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Laura Lett 1 year ago

OPPs,male.

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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago

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Jacob B. 1 year ago

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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.

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wowbagger 1 year ago

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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.

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Huddo's sister 1 year ago

Many of these were myths or superstitions not conspiracies

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Christian Strompen 1 year ago

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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.

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Travelling Stranger 1 year ago

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

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Tyke 1 year ago

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JoyfulZebra 1 year ago

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Pablo Ramos 1 year ago

Religions. Wake up, people!

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tomnorford 1 year ago

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