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

Use your individual action to buy well and lobby your politicians

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

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!

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

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

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.

So sunlight is good. The plants were right

I used to be sick about 3 times a year. Then Covid hit. I went into lockdown, then homeoffice, then parental leave. I haven't been sick for 2,5 years.

Also, being out in the cold for an extended period can put stress on your immune system, making you more susceptible to infection, and can worsen your symptoms if you were already sick, which can make some people feel like they are suddenly sick from being in the cold if their symptoms were very mild previously. But yeah, you don't actually "catch" anything from the cold itself.

To catch your death of cold refers to hypothermia not the cold virus/pathogen. So not so much a myth as lost in translation over time.

I would say that while this post is technically true, it does ignore that getting chilled can affect your immune system and make it more likely to get colds or other infections like pneumonia. But yes, the main reason is that we are in such close quarters during the winter so it just makes it easier for diseases to spread.

It's also because when you're cold, your body diverts energy from your immune system to keep you warm. And then you feel cold once you get sick because your body diverts energy TO your immune system, thus heating you up less. That's why hot drinks are a good treatment.

Then WHY have I caught a cold every damn time I'm out in the cold for an extended amount of time. My body knows.

Stop being pedantic. I don't think most people think they literally caught a cold from getting cold. But if you've ever been "chilled to the bone", you know that you might get sick. You pick up disease-causing viruses all the time, but most times you fight it off. But when stressed, including when getting very chilled, you have less ability to fight off diseases and are more likely to develop disease from one of those viruses.

I spent a fortnight as a volunteer at the "common cold research establishment" in Salisbury,, U.K.many years ago, They proved that cold weather didn't cause colds.

Being in the cold ABSOLUTELY increases your susceptibility of getting sick. I worked in a refrigerated environment for a year. Despite washing my hands at least 6 times during a shift, I still caught 15 colds and covid while working there.

Sure but the exposure to cold affects your immune system which increases the likelihood of infection and even the viruses you already have to activate.

The same people who say this are those who eat and wait 30 minutes to swim...

Blame our parents for this one.

Disagree. As someone with asthma if I get too cold, I feel it in my lungs and almost immediately get a chest infection which turns to bronchitis.

My elderly uncle believed that if you left the house with wet hair, you'd get a cold.

If you stress your body, you will have less resistance to colds and sickness. Since this wive's tale has been with us for a few centuries, it makes sense. Getting very cold and returning to a cold house that would only be warm near the stove would certainly stress your body. Washing your hair in barely warm water and then going outdoors would also stress your body.

There is a case that getting cold - as in seriously cold as in birder hypothermia, not just feeling a bit chilled - can trigger an infection already in your body. Because getting that cold take enormous amounts of energy. Your body will work overtime to try to maintain your body temperature. That means you get fatigued fast. And that in turn can mean that your body does not have the energy to fight the cold/infection as effective as it normally would. And yes. I have been that cold. You would not believe how tired and fatigued it makes you when you get warm again.

also, the drier the air, the weaker your mucous membrane and the easier a virus can access your body.

Financial homeopathy

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

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

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.

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

This is not a myth, is simply lack of knowledge.

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

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

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

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.

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...

sadly some do

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

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.

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.

Space homeopathy

Werewolf movies and Wattpad lied to us all.

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

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

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.

They're the horoscopes of HR

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.

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

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

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".

That does not justify this close up though

Sorry boys the mustache won't get thicker