30 Myths That Have Been Debunked A Long Time Ago But Some People Still Fail To Catch Up

It just makes the disparity worse. Because say their profits are 6 billion when their taxes are cut, the following years, they will do whatever it takes to match or even increase profits, cutting costs wherever possible. This includes increasing workload for employees for no increased wages. Tax the rich!

I only know 3 people who all grew up very poor and are now very successful in life. Most other people didn’t have the same luck as them despite working very hard

So true, almost lost my house and became homeless when I got cancer and Hubby's heart failed. Debtors don't care that you've never missed a payment in 25 years.

It is absolutely true that money CAN buy happiness, but not guaranteed that money DOES buy happiness (ie buy away your grief/depression/mental problems). Can we all just agree on this and stop arguing and just be angry at the insanely rich that could make a lot of other people happier?

Your liver, lungs, skin, kidneys and other organs are enough. All you have to do is hydrate and have a good diet

Poor woman needed surgery from the burn and her labia had fused

Tell the anti-vaxxers that there is a vaccine out that prevents autism and watch their head cave in

If a company says that to you, it's a red flag and you should run. They will work you like you're a work horse...

Some birds will recognise the person who helped and will trust them a bit more than anyone else

Also, how do you have "higher than normal call volumes" all the time?! What call volume are you calling normal? 2am during a power outage or something?

Reminds me of in Discworld when Carrot sees the slogan about girls best friend and assumes they are sentient

What about pet dogs who think of their human as the leader of the pack?

Funny how people forget about the deaths caused mining for coal and by coal pollution

Depends on if you take into consideration the lives of future humans who will have to deal with the nuclear waste.

Depends on whether or not Homer Simpson is working there.

There is research going on that will use the waste from nuclear power stations to create batteries. Part of the process involves using the irradiated carbon rods to create 'nuclear diamond' disks as part of the battery. Prototypes have been made but are very underpowered but they can easily provide power for around 23,000 years

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If nuclear power was so dangerous, why haven't we heard about any power plants having problems?

Can you link a study comparing solar power with nuclear power, I can't believe those have the same safety rating!

Nuclear power is NOT safe. It *may* kill fewer people (so far) than fossil fuel burning and mining. However, it still kills when things go wrong. Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island are the really BIG ones we know about. Solar, wind power, and stored hydro are renewable, MUCH less expensive, easier, and quicker to deploy, and produce NO pollutants. Also no need for storage of spent nuclear fuel.

"We operate 8 reactors in downtown Norfolk and no one bats an eye." - Anonymous Sailor

Coal plants put more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants, by a lot, due to radioactive isotopes in the coal...

Sorry, but this notion leaves out the whole issue of nuclear waste. The waste is very dangerous, and impossible to dispose of. Solving this by burying it is like when we bury toxic chemicals. That's worked out so well for us!

Hell, how many people have died mining the materials that are then burned and kill people?

BUT, large swaths of land haven't become virtually unrecoverable and every resource within that large swath of land unusable from coal, solar, water or natural gas use. Nuclear does that. No other energy form that we presently know of does that.

I found out last year that reactors can be cooled with SALT! It's older technology but some people think it's safer.

Nooo, no need to bust a myth by creating a new myth. It is not equal with solar in terms of safety, that is outright wrong. Today's fission nuclear power is extremely hazardous, it is just that we use it under very strict and controlled forms. But it needs to be constantly maintained and looked after. There needs to be safeties against meltdowns, there needs to be safe storage of the waste etc. Workers at nuclear plants must take outmost precautions most of their workdays so nothing goes wrong, and for their own health as well. Heavy radioactive elements is extremely dangerous stuff, fission energy is extremely dangerous chemistry done to that extremely dangerous stuff. That doesn't make coal power less dirty by any means, but let's not pretend fission power isn't volatile. That can simply not be compared to solar, while having some hazardous steps to produce, is just a machine that passively sits and generates electricity.

Just because fossil fuels suck doesn't mean we should embrace fission. Try solar or wind or hydroelectric.

Haha, does anyone actually believe this?

Well, actually, this isn't entirely a myth at all. The cold will not "give" you a cold, but it does facilitate making getting sick a lot easier. There has been multiple peer reviewed s that show cold temperatures lower the immune response in people's bodies, especially the nose and throat, where most pathogens enter. Here are some of these.....https://www.uclahealth.org/news/new-study-links-nose-temperature-and-immune-response#:~:text=According%20to%20this%20new%20research,EVs%20that%20reduced%20their%20efficacy .... https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/out-in-the-cold ... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10066131/ ... Also, a lot of the viruses that cause colds survive better in cold temps.

Or the believe that shaving makes the hair grow more dense and thicker.

"When taken daily, vitamin C very slightly shortened cold duration -- by 8% in adults and by 14% in children." (Conclusion from a big combined study in 2010.) But you'll have to get enough vitamin C in your system year round, not just start taking it when you get sick.

Sugar is what makes you gain weight. If you cut down on sugar and fats, you won’t gain much weight

Technically, anything is flushable if it fits in the pipe. Doesn't mean you should flush it, though.

I never got this one. The earlier it is reported, the more chance of that person being found healthy. Hollywood has a lot to answer for.

Most people use far less.

Cracking your knuckles will 12/10 p**s off your co-workers

Eight glasses is something like 2-2,5 liter of water and that is in the right ballpark for average person. But then there are the other things to consider, like what is the temperature, how big you are, what do you eat, how your metabolism works, how much physical activities you do, ... And one important thing, how much minerals are in your water? Level varies a lot, make sure that your water is not "too clean", then you may get migraines from drinking too much water and demineralizing your body.

Scientists proved they were useless by having subjects lie confidently and the results came up as truth

Maybe the early 20th century, but not the early 19th. John H. Kellogg wasn't born until 1852.

Or is it that his normal height was minimised?

After looking at this pic, didnt think of eyes... 😁😅😂

This is something i recently became aware of after I saw a comment on a cooking video complaining that the meat was never washed.it makes no sense to me what this would accomplish except spreading bacteria around your sink

True, but you will be healthier if that 10kg to much is muscle and not fat

They didn't spend that much and it was actually kind of a smart move. The fake part is just that the soviets simply used pencils instead.

One thing you see from flat earth now is that they are unable to progress because most people watch each other for explanations which creates a cycle of them repeating the same thing.

I thought we figured this one out long ago. Getting a higher pay will never result in lower income. It can however mean you'll get less financial assistance (from the government or other sources), so it can mean your total monthly amount to spend gets lower. This should never be much though, because most subsidies are scaled with income.

It is. If your zoom is good enough.

"The rain itself can't actually make you sick. However, staying wet and cold for prolonged periods may lower your body temperature enough to affect your immune system—putting you at an increased risk of catching a cold or flu virus." (A lot of these so-called myths are based on truths, they're just oversimplified over time until the statements aren't true anymore. Get the whole story and it makes sense again.)

I know I should probably just Google it, but what on Earth is this?