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

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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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#1

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

henrirousseau , Polina Tankilevitch Report

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#2

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.

rogthnor , Antoine GIRET Report

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#3

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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#4

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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317points

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#5

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…

TheRealestDill , engin akyurt Report

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#6

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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#7

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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#8

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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#9

Trickle down economics.

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#10

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.

flextape9989 , Sierra NiCole Narvaeth Report

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268points

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#11

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.

Manaleaking Report

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#12

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

JacobDCRoss , Volodymyr Hryshchenko Report

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#13

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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#14

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.

ummmmmmmmmqueen , Kat Smith Report

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#15

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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#16

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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#17

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?"

valdier , Markus Winkler Report

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#18

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

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#19

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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#20

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

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#21

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

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#22

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

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#23

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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#24

Astrology

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#25

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

ThatOneWhoSparkles , Thomas Bonometti Report

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#26

Qanon

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131points

Suzanne Tilson 2 years ago

What...is Qanon. Is it a language from Star Trek or something

25points

NsG 2 years ago

Hoo boy, I'd love to have never heard of this pinnacle of conspiracy nuts! At its heart this bunch of twatwaffles believe and spout the theory that Tr*mp is waging a war against the elites, the media, the Clinton Paedophile Pizza Ring, Satan worship in the government and I HAVE NOT MADE ANY OF THIS UP! Basically take every single one of the myths on this list so far, and they will have a grain of truth more than what this bunch of absolute idiots believe.

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James016 2 years ago

I always saw Qanon or whoever made it up as just an internet troll but it has gotten out of control because people are idiots.

10points

JinjoBread 2 years ago

That's basically what it is.

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Historyharlot93 2 years ago

Absolutely!

2points

Jennifer Hunter 2 years ago

Basically, Scientology but for Trumpers.

0points

Gossameringue 2 years ago

This is up with the Scientology post - the mystery of cults attract those who feel they are losing control in society and culture and want to be reassured that SOMEONE knows they're right.

6points

Bad Alchemy 2 years ago

Q-anon. Really needs the hyphen in order to be recognizable.

4points

A Thousand Years Wide 2 years ago

I first read this as Qui-Gon

2points

Demongrrrrl 2 years ago

They believe that Democrats have a decades-old massive pedophile ring and traffic children through a pizza place. They completely overlook the fact that no secret as big as that could last for so long without being leaked.

1point

Karen Tape 2 years ago

People can be such sheep sometimes. And people use fear to make them follow

1point

Salty Wild Hair 2 years ago

Does not even exist.

0points

Janet Graham 2 years ago

Q-non? I am not certain of that yet. I do believe in conspiracies.

0points

Hypoxia Smurf 2 years ago

Conspiracies certainly exist. SUCCESSFUL conspiracies are less common. An ultimate conspiracy is totally invisible, so we know nothing. If you think you know of or suspect a conspiracy, you are probably wrong. Think of a conspiracy theory as an onion. Peel away layer after layer until you reach the center -- which is empty, alas. But the process is entertaining.

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#27

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

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#28

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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#29

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.

DaybreakPaladin , Green Chameleon Report

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#30

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

sd2528 , Happy Learning English Report

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#31

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.

JustMeerkats , Victor Burnside Report

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#32

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

rentinghappiness , Pixabay Report

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#33

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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#34

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.

LadyLazaev , Jacinto Diego Report

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111points

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#35

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

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#36

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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#37

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.

bozimthecalm , Art Rachen Report

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100points

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#38

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.

Final score:

92points

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#39

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.

Aminilaina , meo Report

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#40

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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#41

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.

West_Opportunity2255 , Jonathan Pielmayer Report

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79points

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#42

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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#43

Essential oils.

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#44

That dogs mouths are cleaner than humans!

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#45

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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#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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#47

That Lemmings hurl themselves en masse off cliffs.

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33points

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#48

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

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31points

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#49

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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30points

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#50

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

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#51

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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#52

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

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24points

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#53

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

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#54

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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#55

The original Loch Ness image - faked.

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#56

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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19points

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#57

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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#58

Dairy products are good for your bones.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Stop believing anyone's uterus is your business. You are killing women. That's all.

35points

KimB 2 years ago

I wish I could upvote this a million times!

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Jaden Alexander 2 years ago

Cheetos make good presidents. The amount of people that still believe this is astonishing.

20points

Jesse Hoover 2 years ago

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Chich 2 years ago

The belief that a 1/4 pound is bigger than a 1/3 pound.

3points

NicNor5560 2 years ago

It could be bigger but it's mostly heavier.

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago (edited)

A few of these are just personal opinions of the author I think, however Myths and conspiracy theories sell well :D

3points

Q B F T 2 years ago

The early eps of You're Wrong About are pretty good on some of these kind of things.

3points

CP 2 years ago

I was hoping GMOs would be on the list. People think they are dangerous when they are not.

2points

Pterodactyl in Disguise 2 years ago

They are now if you want to go back

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NicNor5560 2 years ago

The thing with these post is that they just say a word or two but don't let us know why and/or why not. For ex. Essential Oils. Okay, what about them? The other thing is that nothing is supported with reports/facts, etc. either.

1point

Jessica butts 1 year ago

Well for one many are poisonous and any oil can cause pneumonia and death if ingested and accidentally inhaled into the lungs (like people do with beverages) because it disrupts surfactant. They can poison children and small animals when used in a diffuser. Just don't buy them.

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Amazing though that in the information age when everyone has access to so much knowledge that people believe in such BS.....

1point

Will Tiernan 2 years ago

Why is/are god(s) not on this list? Just as much nonsense as anything else on the list.

0points

Kevin Camp 2 years ago

One thing I have learned... and it's not universal and so it does not apply to everyone. Some people just have weak immune systems. Most of the people who always have sniffles, a cold, stomach flu and get the flu annually... don't wash their hands after using the toilet.

0points

Lara M 2 years ago

My immune system was just fine until I went through pregnancy and childbirth. After that, I catch everything that's going around. I haven't changed my hand washing policy.

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Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

I have a pretty weak immune system to things like colds. I had mono in college and it got worse after that. I worked in a refrigerated environment for a year and caught 15 colds and covid. And we had to wash our hands at least 6 times during a shift.

1point

Jessica butts 1 year ago (edited)

That isn't true. Most of these illnesses are contracted from other people, not your own hands/bathroom activities.I was washing my hands in med school every 15 minutes and was constantly sick (this was before masks)

0points

Ayjay bu 2 years ago

Humans are not the only intelligent species in the whole entire universe. There are other mutch higher intelligent species roaming around outer space. They just don't want to mingle with us because they look at us like the way we look at pond scum.

0points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Not een the only intelligent species on this planet. :-)

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Stop believing anyone's uterus is your business. You are killing women. That's all.

35points

KimB 2 years ago

I wish I could upvote this a million times!

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Jaden Alexander 2 years ago

Cheetos make good presidents. The amount of people that still believe this is astonishing.

20points

Jesse Hoover 2 years ago

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Chich 2 years ago

The belief that a 1/4 pound is bigger than a 1/3 pound.

3points

NicNor5560 2 years ago

It could be bigger but it's mostly heavier.

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago (edited)

A few of these are just personal opinions of the author I think, however Myths and conspiracy theories sell well :D

3points

Q B F T 2 years ago

The early eps of You're Wrong About are pretty good on some of these kind of things.

3points

CP 2 years ago

I was hoping GMOs would be on the list. People think they are dangerous when they are not.

2points

Pterodactyl in Disguise 2 years ago

They are now if you want to go back

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NicNor5560 2 years ago

The thing with these post is that they just say a word or two but don't let us know why and/or why not. For ex. Essential Oils. Okay, what about them? The other thing is that nothing is supported with reports/facts, etc. either.

1point

Jessica butts 1 year ago

Well for one many are poisonous and any oil can cause pneumonia and death if ingested and accidentally inhaled into the lungs (like people do with beverages) because it disrupts surfactant. They can poison children and small animals when used in a diffuser. Just don't buy them.

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Amazing though that in the information age when everyone has access to so much knowledge that people believe in such BS.....

1point

Will Tiernan 2 years ago

Why is/are god(s) not on this list? Just as much nonsense as anything else on the list.

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Kevin Camp 2 years ago

One thing I have learned... and it's not universal and so it does not apply to everyone. Some people just have weak immune systems. Most of the people who always have sniffles, a cold, stomach flu and get the flu annually... don't wash their hands after using the toilet.

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Lara M 2 years ago

My immune system was just fine until I went through pregnancy and childbirth. After that, I catch everything that's going around. I haven't changed my hand washing policy.

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Stephanie Paich 2 years ago

I have a pretty weak immune system to things like colds. I had mono in college and it got worse after that. I worked in a refrigerated environment for a year and caught 15 colds and covid. And we had to wash our hands at least 6 times during a shift.

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Jessica butts 1 year ago (edited)

That isn't true. Most of these illnesses are contracted from other people, not your own hands/bathroom activities.I was washing my hands in med school every 15 minutes and was constantly sick (this was before masks)

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Ayjay bu 2 years ago

Humans are not the only intelligent species in the whole entire universe. There are other mutch higher intelligent species roaming around outer space. They just don't want to mingle with us because they look at us like the way we look at pond scum.

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Not een the only intelligent species on this planet. :-)

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