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The scientific community is constantly trying to expose its own mistakes — after all, what is a statement worth if it's never been the subject of scrutiny? However, no matter how hard it tries, some people just don't listen.

Recently, Redditor Jimbo_Jigs asked other platform users to share some myths and misconceptions that many still believe to be true, and they got what they asked for. Not just the classic "vaccines cause autism." Continue scrolling and check out the replies.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That vaccines cause autism.

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You'd have to be denser than lard and molasses to believe it does

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Personal carbon footprint or any green initiative which focuses on individual action. BP invented the entire concept during a marketing push to hide the fact that like ~72 companies produce 90% of pollution.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Use your individual action to buy well and lobby your politicians

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True The earth being flat. We have literally done studies, taken pictures, boiled all of that down to the level that a kindergartener can understand it, and some idiots still don't get it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The proof that earth is a globe is that if it were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge already.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True To answer the question, vaccines being anything but safe and effective is a hoax that some people believe.

Vaccines are *by far* the medical intervention best-supported by evidence. Tens of billions of vaccines given to billions of people over the course of multiple centuries have proven them to be safe and effective. If you trust *any* part of medicine, you should trust vaccines.

I would hazard a guess that vaccines have saved more lives than every other medical intervention combined.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vaccines are nothing but literally TRAINING for an individual's own immune system! Being anti-vaxx is like saying you don't believe in Training!

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Detox.
B******t, b******t, b******t.
What do you think your liver and kidneys are doing all day? If they weren’t working you would be on a form of detox called dialysis.

edit: To clarify since it might not be obvious, I’m referring to pseudoscience detox teas and pills. Not medically justified detoxification like opioids, alcohol, acetaminophen, etc…

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then you get those peddlers who claim you have "x pounds of sludge" just chilling out in your intestines....

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The case of the woman who sued mcdonalds because she spilled hot coffee on herself. The hoax was that it was a frivolous lawsuit, that she was driving while drinking and she spilled the coffee on herself and just didn't like it and sued mcdonalds and won a lot of money. But the reality was that she wasn't driving, the coffee was extremely hot, people had already complained it was too hot, I don't remember how she spilled the coffee, but anyway after spilling just a bit of it on her leg, she got severe burns on her leg and had to go to the hospital and go to the ER. If she had drunk that she could have suffered much more harm. All she wanted was for mcdonalds to pay for her hospital bill, they didn't, and she sued them and won. Then either mcdonalds or it was a corporation that represented a bunch of corporations spread the hoax that some clumsy woman sued and won a lot of money because she spilled her coffee.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The coffe was so hot that Stella Liebeck received third degree burns. She required multiple operation. Stella offered to settle the case for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses and lost income. Her injuries were absolutely horrendous!!! www.caoc.org/?pg=facts

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True The Big Lie. The United States election for president was not rigged. There was no fraud in the voting process.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1. There is only one election referenced when using the term "Big Lie", and that's discussing 45 and his allegations that he actually won. 2. Notice that 45 only says he was impacted and not anyone else who lost the election that year. 3. There have been more recent local and state elections since then.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True "Catching a cold" from cold weather. It's a pathogen. You catch it from people.

Though disease does increase in the winter. It's commonly thought to be due to close quarters indoors and less Vitamin D from the sun, important for the immune system.

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Trickle down economics.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Crystals. They are just f*****g rocks. There is no scientific evidence proving that they have healing effect. Any possible effects are due to the placebo effect. People will actually go against medical advice because they think holding a crystal will fix all their problems.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

However, for some people believing in something will make them feel better.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Scientology

Edit: Scientologists are programmed to reply to this with "dOn'T yOu MeAn ALL ReLiGiOnS?" and try to do the all lives matter thing when someone says black lives matter to dilute the message.

It's the internet age, cultists. We researched your tactics to put yourself on equal footing with actual religions. You are programmed by NLP, get help.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If your religion scams you out of your property and personal freedom, it's a cult.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Homeopathy. It's water.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "power" of homeopathic... stuff ('cause it's NOT medication) is measured in "Centesimal dilutions", or CH. Even conceding the active principles used works (they don't), at 12 CH statistically there is not a single atom of the principle in a liter of water. At 30 CH (the dilution commonly used for flu "medication") you can expect to have a single atom of active principle every 10 BILLIONS BILLIONS (10^18) liters of water. That is roughly the volume of the Indian Ocean to have ONE SINGLE ATOM of active principle.

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That using a tampon can take away a females virginity. It’s crazy that people still believe that myth even though it’s been busted many years ago.

There is not enough evidence that it can take away an individuals virginity. It shouldn’t even matter if your child is a virgin or not. You should love your child no matter what.

Your child should be able to have the right to use tampons when they’re on their period. Not everyone wants to miss out from a chance of going swimming, and not everyone wants to wear a diaper everyday for 7 days straight.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cycling can break your hymen...as can swimming and horse riding. It's such a stupid concept.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That cows just produce milk naturally without being impregnated and giving birth first.

they are simply mammals, and produce milk for the sole purpose of feeding their young.

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MLMs, Boss babes, "be your own boss" scams.

I'm not sure how many documentaries need to be put on YouTube before people will stop buying into these companies and wasting their money.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the owners of these companies are rich, but gained their money through other ways, when people see someone rich saying that you can get a lot of money doing this and that, they follow it

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. They're all equally as important, Kellogg just convinced everyone of that to sell more cereal.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

John Harvey Kellogg invented cornflakes as a cure for wanking, not as a substantial breakfast.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That MSG is bad for you.

I meet people regularly that think it's a super insta-cancer ingredient that will cause you to die or something based on 80s/90s false scares. Then I tell them "you do know it naturally occurs on tomatoes, yes?"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I can keep my instant noodles. Was worried I'd have to toss the lot

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Lie detectors.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, there's no such thing as a lie detector. Polygraphs measure stress, not honesty. That's why polygraph results aren't admissible evidence in UK courts.

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That GMOs cause cancer. Literally no evidence to prove this. Everything that has gone through evolution or adaptation is GMO.

Now there are issues with monoculture, but that's a whole different discussion.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We'd be screwed if GMOs caused cancer because 99% of the veges we buy today have been genetically modified of the last 10,000 years...

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True We only use 10% or our brain.

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People simply *giving away* drugs or edibles on Halloween. As if.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now remember kids, if someone gives you drugs on Halloween, you say thank you. Because drugs are expensive.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was so annoyed when my daughter found out that this was a myth, I had kept it going because I hated the noise it makes.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That dogs can only see in black and white. This is false.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They do have different colour vision to us, though. I believe they don't have (or have fewer) receptors for the red end of the spectrum. Consequently they don't see reds and oranges, but in shades of blue, green and yellow.

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Astrology

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Wolf hierarchy with alpha on top and omega at the bottom.

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Qanon

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That NASA spent billions developing a pen to work in space and the Russians just used a pencil.

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It's true, but the USSR switched to a pen a few years later because graphite particulate matter.

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That Kitty Genovese was murdered as people heard her screams and did nothing. To this day people believe in the Bystander Effect.

In fact multiple neighbors called the police. One even went to her to comfort her believing police were on the way and was driven off by the murderer coming back to finish her off.

The New York Times asked the police about it in their reporting, and without checking, believed them that they didn’t get any calls. In fact the police were covering for them badly dropping the ball. If they’d actually responded when the first call came in, Genovese could probably have been saved.

The lazy reporter later became the editor of the New York Times, having eroded a large amount of humanity’s trust in itself.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The bystander effect is real...just not quite this extreme. And now that people are more aware of their nature you get more people willing to be the first to step up.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Isn’t that whole Myers-Briggs personality test recognized as a complete fabrication.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True The food pyramid.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the food pyramid, it tells me to eat lots of pasta and anyone who tells me to eat lots of pasta is a friend.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Touching a baby bird will make its parents reject it.

Edited to add: Any baby animal. When in doubt, reach out to your local wildlife rehabilitation network/individual.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although touching a baby bear can have the unfortunate effect of suddenly finding your liver in a different postal zone to your pancreas.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That you swallow 8 spiders a year in your sleep.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish! Then I wouldn't have to wake up for midnight snacks.

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Blood in your veins is blue and red in your arteries. Literally every elementary school teacher I had kept this lie going.

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We were never told this lie in school...but I have met quite a few adults who swore up and down that our blood is blue until it is exposed to oxygen because "look our veins are blue".

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Different parts of your tongue don't actually detect different types of taste. Your tongue is the same all over.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Shaving making hair grow in thicker.

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Using a cell phone a lot will give you cancer.

The radiation phones give off is harmless. They use radio waves to operate, which many of us here will have been exposed to our entire lives whether or not we use a phone. AM/FM radio causes radio waves to be going through us at all times.

SOURCE: Am currently studying the effects of different kinds of radiation on microorganisms in my microbiology class

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Numerous studies on this topic have all come up showing zero evidence of this being a problem, even the ones not sponsored by cell phone companies. Physical models of the effect of this radiation on proteins and other organic chemicals show it's not even possible to have an effect.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True A lot of cryptocurrency scams.

Majority of the suckers often either continue to hold their investments; that was worth less than dirt, or go on to invest in yet another scam.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Got a call a while ago. Scam: Do you want to invest in cryptocurrency? Me: sure Scam: go to Invest.com Me: how u spell it? Scam: I like in Italy ... (20 minutes later).. Me: no still page not found, I type "invest.comilikeinitalytlikeintomato" Scam: goodbye

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That the Great Wall of China is visible from the moon. I swear I even had my history teacher in High School stating that it was true.

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It's visible from space, if you can zoom in close enough.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That people are “right” or “left” brain thinkers and that it has any bearing on her personality and level of logic or creativity.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The left and the right brain are definitely different. Watch this - https://youtu.be/wfYbgdo8e-8 - it might blow your mind but which one!

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True If you pull out a grey hair three more grow in its place, my sister still believes this one.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's true, though not because you've pulled one out, it's because you're going grey! I know, lol.

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True That carrots improve your eyesight. I think it was used in the Great British blackout because there was a food shortage and carrots was the easiest thing to get. Don't quote me on that tho.

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That Kennedy called himself a jelly doughnut in a speech to Berliners and they all laughed at him. Not true, he was fine using "ich bin ein berliner" there.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, he was fine, it means someone from Berlin. Yes, it also refers to a jelly-filled doughnut in many German-speaking regions. No, no-one would think he meant the latter. People from other German cities include Hamburgers and Frankfurters.

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Essential oils.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, they don't treat or cure stuff, but can alleviate some symptoms. Some smell great. I usually put some mint oil on my pillow when i have a cold so I don't wake up every hour to inhale the minty stick or whatever it's called. Oils have benefits, but they don't magically heal, just like a massage doesn't cure my bad bones and muscles, but it sure helps with pain. I feel like people with too much time on their hands and money to buy the oils just have nothing better to do than spew s**t like this instead of listening to medical experts, but who knows what that disorder is called anyway? It's just certain that it cannot be "cured" by the oils.

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That dogs mouths are cleaner than humans!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From the shite coming from so many hooman mouths, dogs are definitely cleaner... Even after the dogs lick their balls and orifice. 👅 💩

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True It’s illegal to keep the light on in the car while driving.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's illegal (in the Netherlands) to do anything that causes danger, when driving. Keeping the light on in the car impedes your sight in the dark so yes, technically that's illegal.

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#46

Crop Circles being created by alien spacecraft.

College kids with engineering degrees pull off this hoax all the time, and they do it with nothing more than a central posts, a ball of string, and a heavy roller to mash down the crops. They produce perfectly concentric circles and straight lines using the same technology that the egyptians used to build pyramids.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Egyptians built the pyramids? Not according to the History Channel they didn't. Wait until the Hitler programmes have finished and then it's 'Ancient Aliens' you're looking for.

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That Lemmings hurl themselves en masse off cliffs.

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That you need to wash your chicken before you cook it! Please don’t do this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you. Meat and animal products can pick up all sorts of bacteria during processing and packaging, washing meat before you cook it will contaminate your kitchen cooking the meat at the right temperature will kill off most bacteria

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45 Myths And Misconceptions That Some People Mistakenly Believe Are Actually True Professional fighters don't actually have to register their hands as weapons. No body part can be registered as a weapon.

I'm upset with myself for actually believing it for years.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait. I have a certificate from the internet that says my hands are lethal weapons. ACTUAL LETHAL WEAPONS AS DANGEROUS AS ANY F I R E ARM. The internet wouldn't give me a certificate if it weren't true.

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Chocolate milk coming from brown cows. Isn't it like 7% of americans think that or something?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope they were all taking the pi$$ when they answered that survey...

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Pretty sure the Bermuda Triangle being more dangerous due to supernatural things but it is just as dangerous as any sea, it just has some intense waters.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a kiddo, I was terrified by the Bermuda Triangle!!! And getting caught in quicksand!!!

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That whole miracle mineral solution thing. Or as I like to call it, the drinkin' bleach.

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Nelson Mandela’s death in prison. We all know the Mandela Effect at this point.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our memories are not all that reliable. I was super confused when the death of Prince Phillip was announced last year because I was convinced he had died over 10 years ago. I very clearly remember going through a 9gag post in my college years where they were listing some cute moments between him and the queen for the anniversary of his death. Clearly that's a false memory but it sure threw me for a loop.

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Amityville. They said it was made up over a few bottles of wine. The Defeo lawyer and the lutz’s.

The popular ghost boy picture was just an investigator on his knees with glasses. The movies and books made millions and every few years more and more documentaries come about.

I can only speculate what actually happened but people cannot let it go.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The story is more interesting than the truth, so it will keep on spreading.

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The original Loch Ness image - faked.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, I'm pretty sure Loch Ness is real. It's not, like, Loch Lomond in a wig.

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Bigfoot

There's an underground community of people on YouTube shorts faking Bigfoot sightings and each one gets more desperate than the last, and the comments are echo chambers of people trying to convince themselves and others that there are still 'Bigfoot' esque creatures out there.

It's entertainment, highly recommend

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For hundreds of years the silverback gorilla was a "myth." As were white whales, colossal squids, and a host of other previously undiscovered animals. I'm not saying Gigantopithecus isn't extinct, but that it honestly wouldn't surprise me if they found one.

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The “organic” food certification cartel. Food labeled as organic isn’t any better for you, science backs this. Modern pesticides are designed to be less harmful to the environment than older methods, and break down long before the food is to be consumed, even though you should always wash your produce. However, organic foods take more land and resources to produce, use older methods for pesticides that are MUCH worse for the environment, have more flaws, cost more, and generally don’t keep as long. Organic food is more wasteful and harmful to the environment, but their scam marketing campaigns have misled the general public.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry but horeshit, do some better research, sure organic is not as easy but bloody hell this comment is ignorant. There is so mamy new studies on pesticides and herbicides in rice and fruit end vegetables. https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5234787/dirty-dozen-pesticides/%3famp=true "The USDA also does not test fruits and vegetables for all pesticides used in crop production. For example, glyphosate is the most heavily used pesticide in the U.S., and it can be found in high levels on several grains and beans, such as oats and chickpeas. But the USDA has not analyzed these crops for glyphosate. This is troubling, because tests commissioned by EWG found almost three-fourths of popular oat-based food samples, including many popular with children, had pesticide residue levels higher than what EWG scientists consider protective of children’s health." Also all the pesticide runoff that has destroyed waterways in many countries.

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Dairy products are good for your bones.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our diet does require some source of calcium, dairy is only one such source, salmon (and some other fish), soy, beans, vegetables. Even a tin of baked beans will give you a decent dose of calcium.

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