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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.

#1

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

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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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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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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year 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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#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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1 year 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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#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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#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.

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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.

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1 year 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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#12

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

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, it’s not just water! It’s at least 0.0000000000001% something else!

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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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1 year 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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#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.

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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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1 year 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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#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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1 year 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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#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?"

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#18

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

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Dave Lear
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1 year 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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#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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1 year 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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#21

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

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1 year 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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#22

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

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1 year 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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#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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1 year 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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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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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually pencils were a major problem on space stations - tiny bits break off and get into every system.

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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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1 year 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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#30

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

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1 year 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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1 year 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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#32

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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#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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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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#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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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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1 year 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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#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.

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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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1 year 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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1 year 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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#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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1 year 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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#43

Essential oils.

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1 year 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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#44

That dogs mouths are cleaner than humans!

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1 year 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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1 year 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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