“Chiropractors”: 44 Fake Or Partially Fake Things People Consider To Be True Science

Even a perfectly functioning polygraph would only establish what the subject believed to be true - not what was actually true. That's why they call it a lie detector, not a fact detector.

It's not the polygraph machine's results that matter, it's the subject's willingness or fear of being tested by one that's the important detail.

B******t! Because the detector is normalized to your current stress level before starting the questioning. And it measures a lot of different physical reactions, that's why it's called poligraph. And there are also different kinds of questioning. Nonetheless I agree, that it's good, the results are not permitted as evidence. Because people are not alike and for that there is a not negligible failure margin. And of course it can be manipulated with training.

But Maury uses them .

Personality tests are only good for some pure fun factor like which member of the X-Men are you or something you might come across on BP. Not for actually serious things like hiring

Well, personality tests ARE science-based. It is the over-interpretation, over-usage and overconfidence in their results that is problematic.

There are personality tests that are genuinely scientific, such as the MMPI. They’re valid only when administered and interpreted by trained professionals. As for Meyers-Briggs, it’s based on real science. But you’ve probably never taken the actual Meyers-Briggs test. What most people these days are referring to when they say “Meyers-Briggs” is actually a greatly abridged version called the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. It’s simple, short, and self-administered, all of which reduces the scientific validity of its results.

With sufficient and well-targette familial and/or societal pressure it is possible to persuade some people that they're not really gay, force them to live their whole lives in the closet, miserable and depressed... just like their parents, their cousins, their church 'friends'...

Conversion therapy camps are psychological t*****e camps. It also does not work (they'll eventually give up on the straight lie and come out as gay again). But even if it did work, they would live unhappy unfulfilled lives, because they have to live without all the happiness that romantic and sexual relationships/encounters bring. Being with someone you don't love in that way (like someone of a gender you're not attracted to) will never bring you that kind of happiness. Why would you ever want for someone to go without this happiness their whole life?

Absolutely. People claim to have been "cured". You can't cure gay. Either they're just suppressing it now and are miserable inside or they were bisexual all along and are just only expressing the socially acceptable part. A friend of mine signed himself up for it and insists he's not gay now. The girlfriend he got eventually broke up with him because she knew he wasn't ever going to love her like she loved him.

God made them that way.

I detox my life by avoiding these people or expelling them from it post-haste.

Detox - eat grains, beans, vegetables and fruits, drink water, no booze for a couple days. that's it.

Them screwing with the neck where things can affect the carotid arteries

somebody had to fix me, whole spine turned clockwise and my right hip was 2 inches higher than the other. its not anymore after the chiro but what do i know

lol my wife had been going on about chiropractors for about a decade, because youtube. Eventually she had a shoulder problem and went both to physio and chiro. She found the chiro did hardly anything and charged a lot of money for it. At least the physio gave better massages. How the love turns to hate lol.

Unless your chiropractor is also an MD they're a quack. If they're trying to sell you stuff or say you need to see them every week for life, they're a quack. If they don't do actual x rays and have a treatment plan that has an end date and is more than just cracks, they're a quack.

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The brand of bottled water I buy says alkaline but I don't buy it for that, I buy it because I like the way it tastes.

I've bought alkaline water before for the nice bottles they come in. That's all. I dumped out the water and refilled with cold tap water

Most of it is literally tap water bottled and sold as alkaline for the dummies.

Ok this might be on the list later, but I have to ask, my dad got a water bottle that adds "hydrogen" to the water. I think it's nonsense, he swears by it which is odd because he is usually the rational one in the family lol! Has anyone else heard of this and is it total bunk like I think???

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been saying this about "organic" and "natural" foods since they first appeared on grocery shelves. In this context, organic and natural are meaningless terms used only for marketing to naive shoppers.

I've never seen cleaning products containing arsenic though...

Pretty much anything that uses "natural" or "organic" in their marketing as a benefit, especially health benefit.

Pooches At Play "Alpha dog training methods might include staring or yelling at the dog, holding them down or forcing them onto their back, physical punishment, or exposing them to sudden loud sounds, sprays or pain when they display unwanted behaviours."

Yes, THIS. And it's infuriating how many people believe it and use it to infantilize young adults. I've heard someone use the phrase "20-years-old child" unironically.

Never heard any such claim. It's fair to say that the younger you are the easier it is to learn new things, particularly languages and such like, but it doesn't mean it's not still possible.

Nope it continues until you die !! We are always learning !

It doesn't finish development but that's the point at which your frontal lobe is fully able to make informed decisions.

The original statement that has been horribly misrepresented was that the human brain is still developing *through* age 25 and not finished at 18. The study didn’t look at subjects older than 25. The idea intended to be conveyed was that a human brain is not “fully mature” at 18 just because a person is a “legal adult”. Later study has revealed that there is no such thing as a “fully mature” brain, because we are capable of improving brain function throughout our entire lifetimes.

I remember the whole vibration universe theory in the early 80s.

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"The Secret", another scam touted by Oprah.

If all you need to do is shake around more, how come the epilepsy and Parkinsons sufferers aren't all millionaires?🤔

What ?

Well, vibrators are stupid expensive, so they must be making a helluva profit off of them! Right? Right?

Celiac here. Said this before but I would bloody LOVE to be able to eat gluten again. It's a pain in the a**e having to avoid it. Why someone would do that if they didn't have to is completely bonkers to me.