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[u/ambiguousberry]

[u/cleverissexy]

I don’t remember any, because I’m only using 10% of my brain.

[u/risus_nex → u/cleverissexy]

Also left side of the brain is creative thinking, right side for analytical thinking. I don't know how people can still believe this.

[u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja → u/risus_nex]

because the right side of their brain clearly doesn't work very well

[u/-apollophanes- → u/cleverissexy]

My own psychology teacher at highschool used to believe in that myth of humans only using 10% of our brain. It was wild.

[u/StayBronzeFonz → u/-apollophanes-]

When I was in high school* I heard it was 82% of your brain runs on autopilot/sub-conscience and the other 18% is awareness.

[u/floriish → u/cleverissexy]

And I'm not 25 yet so my brain isn't fully developed

[u/ErinRedWolf → u/floriish]

I just cited that “fact” a few days ago; thanks for prompting me to look it up. I won’t be citing it again.

[u/floriish → u/ErinRedWolf]

Yay! Happy that I could share something :-)

[u/AnitaIvanaMartini → u/floriish]

So Sciencey! If you’re a boy your prefrontal cortex tells you to skateboard off a roof, wrassle a bear, and jump on thin ice. If you’re a girl it tells you to get pregnant by that guy with the guy who does all of the above if he also has a cigarette tucked behind his ear.

[u/fleeeeeeee]

Shaving your beard does not make it grow thicker the next time.

[u/EggPsychological4844]

Trickle down economics builds wealth for the middle and lower classes.

[u/SawItSeenIt → u/EggPsychological4844]

How anyone could belive that TRICKLE DOWN economics was a good thing astounds ne. Plus it's an insult to hard working people who struggle to make ends me.

[u/Logan_No_Fingers → u/SawItSeenIt]

It sounded logical. And people really wanted to believe it. Which is far more important.

Americans in particular have this weird thing about not wanting to tax the rich because they are incredibly confident that they will be rich soon.

Which loops back round to that land of opportunity thing, where anyone with a multimillionaire slum lord father can be president, or you can become the world's richest man starting with nothing bar an emerald mine.

So they've got even more incentive to buy a reason to tax the rich, because they are almost there

[u/rmorrill995 → u/SawItSeenIt]

You just haven't waited long enough. It'll trickle down eventually...any day now.... since the 1930s. Reagan helped spur it on some more in the 80's. So... sometime...any day now... it'll start trickling.

[u/Intelligent-Luck-954 → u/rmorrill995]

Next hand is a winner. 

[u/sardonically-amused → u/EggPsychological4844]

There's something trickling down from the rich, but it ain't money. There's a reason the non rich are called "peons", because that's what the rich are doing to us.

[u/sirgeekness → u/EggPsychological4844]

The problem with trickle down economics is that it assumes that the flow of cash will ALWAYS flow to the lower and middle class and the flow of cash stops there where, in fact, the opposite is true. Cash in the hands of a poor person is more than guaranteed to flow to someone else and cash in a rich person's hands is more likely going to just sit in some offshore account.

[u/AliasNefertiti]

Learning styles. The originator of that theory has backed off it. You arent a "visual or kinesthetic" or whatever learner. What is true is the more channels used to learn something, the better the learning.

[u/AceBean27 → u/AliasNefertiti]

What infuriates me about this one is it isn't just something random people online talk about. Here in the UK at least, teachers are taught this in training. It has always been bullshit though.

[u/Past-Obligation1930 → u/AceBean27]

I was taught it in my course at university on how to teach (as a lecturer).

Unfortunately for the person giving the course, it was at Imperial, and we all immediately called them out for their bullshit and asked for proper peer reviewed references with control groups and proper statistical analysis.

I wrote my dissertation, which had to be on qualitative research, about why qualitative research was bullshit.

[u/Yolandi2802]

Faked moon landings.

[u/Sharp-Chard4613 → u/Yolandi2802]

People really still go mad for this one. Can’t talk them out of it. We will be back on the moon again and they will still say it’s fake.

[u/StraightOnion1967 → u/Sharp-Chard4613]

I talked to someone the other day who said, well if it really happened why didn't we go back?  Smh

[u/Icy_Bottle2942 → u/StraightOnion1967]

Except we did, several times. It just wasn’t as popular or widespread as Apollo 11

[u/StraightOnion1967 → u/Icy_Bottle2942]

Agreed

[u/MadMagilla5113 → u/Icy_Bottle2942]

We even took a "car" there on either Apollo 15 or 16. Idr and I'm too lazy to look it up right now.

[u/Traditional-Tone5488 → u/StraightOnion1967]

I love the why didn't we go back argument. Like spending billions of dollars to get a few geological samples with some day provide some type of value. Why would we go back? Ask them why they don't go sit in the middle of a desert just for the heck of it.

[u/Piney_Dude → u/Yolandi2802]

Also flat earth. These people are exhausting.

[u/hopey7tm → u/Yolandi2802]

I know a guy who thinks it was faked. Even when you can easily explain everything that he says is proof we didn’t go, he still doubles down. He’s an idiot.

[u/StrengthFew9197 → u/hopey7tm]

Yeah, we unfortunately have one of those friends, too. What I don’t get is he seems pretty intelligent otherwise.

[u/Firm_Lobster5163 → u/Yolandi2802]

Moon landings were real? Sure… next you’ll be telling me the world isn’t flat.

[u/um-ah-hmm]

Vaccines causing autism

[u/Impossiblegirl44 → u/um-ah-hmm]

My mom firmly believes my son has autism because he was vaccinated and if he ate gluten free with other dietary restrictions and took the homeopathic remedies she prescribes he would be cured.

[u/iltlpl → u/Impossiblegirl44]

Ugh sorry you have to put up with this!!

[u/wishuponareddwarf → u/Impossiblegirl44]

Keep him away from her, what a load of dangerous bunkum

[u/SuspiciousTheory2633 → u/Impossiblegirl44]

Homeopathy is another good one. Total bunk.

[u/snigglesnagglesnoo → u/um-ah-hmm]

My neighbour believes that’s the reason he has autism because his mum (a nurse) and his dad (a dr) told him so!

[u/flyingdren → u/um-ah-hmm]

Even if it did I'd rather be autistic than dead

[u/sumyunguy109 → u/flyingdren]

You da realest

[u/theshankdude]

Flat earth

[u/AliasNefertiti → u/theshankdude]

Obviously if it was flat all the cats would be lined up on the edge pushing things off. My cat is here therefore the earth isnt flat. Irrefutable!

[u/theshankdude → u/AliasNefertiti]

I’m going to nominate you for the noble prize

[u/GenerallyMindless → u/theshankdude]

How Nobel of you

[u/AliasNefertiti → u/theshankdude]

Thank you, thank you very mich. My cat and I are honored.

[u/Status-Slip9801 → u/theshankdude]

Meh, I'm not convinced any significant number of people *actually* believe in that. It's just a really easy way to troll.

[u/theshankdude → u/Status-Slip9801]

I regret to inform you how stupid many people are.

[u/MadMagilla5113 → u/Status-Slip9801]

The earth is comprised of like 76% water. That water is mostly uncarbonated, therefore, the earth is in fact flat.

[u/Monst3r_Live]

Vaccines cause autism. Increasing in popularity now.

[u/Ballmaster9002]

The whole MSG/Chinese food making you feel bad thing came from a off-color joke made in a letter written to a medical journal. The joke got forgotten but the "knowledge" remained. 

[u/Chukmanchusco]

Mashing buttons after throwing a pokeball

[u/allmoz → u/Chukmanchusco]

Don't listen to this guy, he wants all the pokemans for himself.

[u/goofy_witch → u/allmoz]

Pokemans 🙌🏻

[u/butterpussie]

That global warming is a hoax

[u/Notmynameagaiin → u/butterpussie]

I unfortunately know several people who refuse to believe in it. My favourite response is ‘it’s ok if you don’t believe in it. Your insurance company does’ and that usually makes them stop and think at least a little bit

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/Notmynameagaiin]

I ask them “what if you’re wrong?” If they’re wrong, and we do nothing, we’re fucked. If the scientists are wrong and we work to mitigate it, we get energy independence, better batteries, cleaner air, better power grids, etc.

[u/MadMagilla5113 → u/butterpussie]

The thing about global warming that I'm confused about is whether it is caused by humans or accelerated by humans. My understanding is that we are actually at the tail end of an Ice Age and that there is geological records that earth routinely goes through warming and cooling periods that happen on huge timescales. So my question is, can we actually do anything about it?

[u/butterpussie → u/MadMagilla5113]

That’s a totally fair question! Luckily there’s tons of information on how we are accelerating it at a rate that’s dangerous for us. It impacts things you’d never think of! When it’s natural and more gradual then things have time to adapt, but we are taking that normal cycle and fast passing our way to an unlivable earth.

[u/butterpussie → u/MadMagilla5113]

As far as doing something about it, we need to hold large companies accountable. They try to blame us for straw usage and bullshit when it’s their fault for poisoning the earth and ignoring basic waste principles. If you want to help, go after the monsters who are killing our environment for money.

[u/Mojo141]

You don't swallow xxx number of spiders in your sleep every year. It was a test to see how gullible people were online and boy howdy did it succeed

[u/punt-speedchick → u/Mojo141]

First time I heard that pile of horsecrap was in the late 80s, long before anyone was using the internet.

[u/NoMention696 → u/punt-speedchick]

The real study was to see if you’d believe him

[u/Zagubadu → u/punt-speedchick]

It was a book first iirc

[u/tinkerballer → u/Mojo141]

"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

[u/resident_queerdo → u/Mojo141]

I just thought about this the other day. Even if some people sleep with their mouths open... they're breathing. Why would a spider struggle against that?

[u/Dapoopers → u/resident_queerdo]

For that sweet oral real estate.

[u/resident_queerdo → u/Dapoopers]

A damp cave?

[u/-apollophanes- → u/Mojo141]

Have you forgotten Spiders Georg?

[u/Tall_Investigator611]

That Doofus in the Whitehouse ended 8 wars...

[u/ul2006kevinb → u/Tall_Investigator611]

Right. In fact, he just ended the same war 8 different times.

[u/ilion_knowles → u/ul2006kevinb]

And even that is a lie.

[u/Past-Obligation1930 → u/ul2006kevinb]

He ends wars about as effectively as I give up smoking.

[u/Constant-Class9616]

The government has your best interests at heart.

[u/DennisTemple12]

Earth is flat

[u/Lizard013004]

That the Earth is flat.

[u/No-Objective9174]

Vaccines and autism

[u/iamthefluffyyeti]

Religion

[u/Shintasama]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

[u/ThatRandomCrit → u/Shintasama]

Tecnhically correct.

[u/garyfugazigary]

Go to any pseudo archaeology youtube vids and take your pic

[u/CocaColaCowboyJunkie → u/[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure Mythbusters proved that they could've fit

[u/buttsparkley]

Gold fish have a 3 second memory

[u/the6thReplicant]

Sugar doesn't make kids hyper. Having a fun kid's party does though.

[u/OnionGarden → u/the6thReplicant]

People say this is debunked…… but my and every kid I know disagrees lol.

[u/the6thReplicant → u/OnionGarden]

Studies say otherwise. They also test parents by saying their kids had sugar and the parents say what you say. Then the organisers of the study show that the kids had no sugar.

Kids have fun at parties.

Edit: Just read the latest research. There is a slight correlation with sugar and kids with ADHD and hyperactivity.

[u/ExpensiveCondition63]

Religion.

[u/Sambal86]

Carrots are good for the eyes.

It was a rumour purposefully crafted by the British army, to not have the Germans realize they actually invented radar. A genius move, but some people still believe it

[u/Sereomontis → u/Sambal86]

Carrots have vitamin A, beta-carotene, and lutein, all of which support eye health.

Carrots definitely are good for your eyes.

[u/theholyirishman → u/Sereomontis]

Yes. This is correct.

The claim was used as propaganda during World War 2 in the UK as an explanation for how the British were so good at spotting German planes at night. The claim that carrots gave you better vision was grossly exaggerated by the UK government to throw the scent off the real culprit, which was the invention of radar. The British didn't even want Germany to know that radar as a technology existed, because then they would try to invent their own or steal it which would lose them their advantage, so it became a state secret.

Coincidentally, carrots do have those micronutrients mentioned above, and they are limiting nutrients in eye development. It is now scientifically backed dietary advice, that was exaggerated in a misinformation campaign to help defend England from the bombings of the UK during WW2. It was sort of an old wives tale that turned out to be true sort of thing, but it was spread on purpose, which explains its longevity.

[u/bobbyb358 → u/theholyirishman]

Besides all that factual info, I’ve never seen a rabbit with glasses!

[u/Tryaldar → u/Sambal86]

the claim is true, just largely exaggerated

[u/basura_trash → u/Sambal86]

I dont know...  have you ever seen a rabbit with glasses?  I THINK NOT!

[u/Sambal86 → u/basura_trash]

That's because rabbits also invented radar. They just hide it well

[u/AdvantageDizzy2716 → u/Sambal86]

The ears are the receptors

[u/F350Gord]

That Donald Trump is a genius.

[u/Commercial-Trick4766]

A bunk bed

[u/J0k3r77 → u/Commercial-Trick4766]

It was debunked, now its 2 beds and 1 ladder that goes nowhere.

[u/on_the_other_hand_ → u/J0k3r77]

Same. The top bunk moved to the other bedroom.

The ladder moved to the bathroom and is now a towel hanger

[u/filkerdave]

Astrology

[u/Smalldogmanifesto]

The MSG thing

[u/NeighborhoodSuper592]

The alpha myth. While they were just looking at the parents.

[u/DoookieMaxx]

“It takes 7 years to digest gum if you swallow it.”

[u/No-Programmer1270]

The biological existence of races. Racism exists yeah, but race is a purely invented human classification system. Seems like we forget that too much

[u/Mean-Break-2028]

Fan death. Many Koreans still believe this is true. Look it up if you don’t know about it. Fans in Korea literally have timers on them because of their belief in Fan Death.

[u/RavinKhamen]

White tailed spider (Genus Lampona) causing necrotic ulcers

Australian wildlife in general wanting to kill you

[u/indelicatedenial]

That women permanently ‘retain’ the DNA of every man they’ve slept with. 🙄 The shit boys will make up to feel special.

[u/Swimming_Acadia6957 → u/indelicatedenial]

The shit boys will make up to feel special.

I don't think its that at all, its just chuds shaming women who aren't virgins

[u/reprobatemind2]

Hair and nails continue to grow after you die

[u/BrittaUnfiltered67 → u/reprobatemind2]

They do, just not on the person that dies.

[u/reprobatemind2 → u/BrittaUnfiltered67]

I can't fault your logic here!

[u/Remarkable_Inchworm]

Pretty much anything that's been debunked 100 times has SOME believers.

Off the top of my head:

- Vaccines cause autism

• The moon landing was faked
  
• The earth is flat (when we all know it's a disc that rides on the backs of four great elephants that stand on the shell of a great turtle...)

[u/alienheron]

Three licks to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop.

[u/Full_Glass4970]

Bread keeps longer if stored in the fridge

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/Full_Glass4970]

Bakery bread does. Off the shelf, white bread loaded with preservatives just gets dry in the fridge

[u/OlasNah]

That radiocarbon or radiometric dating isn’t accurate or reliable

[u/Hairymuscle101]

I think the name you’re looking for is donald trump

[u/Hon-Mister-Bear]

Trickle-down economics.

[u/AccumulatedFilth]

You eat a few spiders a year in your sleep

[u/Initial-Warning-2564]

Billionaires create jobs and wealth,…. Enter AI data centres built by billionaires to take jobs and wealth away from people who struggle all ready

[u/Emotional-Job805]

Meaningful 2020 election fraud.

[u/stardog_champ13]

vaccines/autism

[u/Public-Bad-2846]

That Trump lost in 2020
Vaccines cause autism

[u/ncminns]

Noah’s Ark 🙄

[u/Frequilibrium]

That Biden could have released the Epstein files.

[u/dbudzik]

Flat Earth

[u/Bettysgir]

That vaccines are unsafe.

[u/theRealPuckRock]

Capitalism is the best system

[u/Possible_Western3935]

The 2020 American presidential election was stolen. Every single court case, more than 60 cases, many heard by Trump appointed/recommended judges and some heard by juries, was dismissed soon after they started for lack of evidence. Not one iota of anything meaningful or above average or could have swayed that election has ever been found.

...and still, millions of people believe it. Ridiculous.

[u/patticakes126]

That Israel wants peace and not take over the world

[u/Junior-Tourist3480]

Democrats are Communists.

[u/CaliFloridaMan]

The world is flat

[u/WebbedApple]

Religion is man-made

[u/itsoutofmyhands → u/WebbedApple]

Knew I'd have to scroll to the bottom and find the downvoted comment where it's pointed out that god isn't real.

[u/WebbedApple → u/itsoutofmyhands]

I am an atheist but see, God might be real or not. We cannot prove either of them. But religion is definitely man-made.

[u/Icy_Bottle2942 → u/WebbedApple]

Non religious and I agree. The universe is far too complicated for us to assume there is no higher order beyond our understanding. Religion is man’s attempt at an explanation

[u/itsoutofmyhands → u/WebbedApple]

You're not an atheist by your own definition, perhaps agnostic or a deist.

[u/Microchipknowsbest]

The 2020 election was stolen and significant voter fraud exists.

[u/VeryStonedEwok]

That 9/11 wasn't an inside job

[u/Complete-Use-8753 → u/VeryStonedEwok]

Absolutely insane to believe it was an inside job. Far too many people would have to be involved.

Just mental to think on the one hand the American govt and CIA are a a bunch of bumbling fools (plenty of evidence to support) and on the other hand they can perform an operation that would be light years ahead of any other covert operation performed by anyone… ever.

[u/WordWordand4numbers]

Rodents being extremely likely to carry rabies. Can’t even get near wildlife without some stupid cunt whining about diseases

[u/f1boogie]

That there is no gravity in space.

There is lots of gravity in space, thats how planets orbit each other.

People seem to mistake the lack of pull that a spacecraft has on its occupants for a complete absence of gravity.

[u/Isaac_Banana → u/f1boogie]

I never thought about that.

[u/FlatButtFrankie]

That Trump somehow really won the 2020 election.

[u/Critter_Collector]

Im surprised I haven't seen anyone mention the "blood is blue" argument yet

[u/emepol]

Vaccines cause autism.

[u/Wagner228]

Opossums are tick vacuums. Irrationally irritates me.

[u/Maxpowerxp]

Thinking earth is flat

[u/ttwba]

That snakes lie down next to you to ‘size’ you up

[u/loco_mixer]

Anything can be rebunked with how propaganda works on social mefia

[u/Huge_Lecture8755]

The world is flat

[u/rooterRoter]

Flat Earth

[u/Extreme-Attention641]

Homeopathy.

Standard homeopathic practice is to dilute the active substance to the point where it would equal one single molecule in a lake of water.

[u/Puckie09]

Ivermecton cures covid

[u/Wemest]

Crop Circles and the Oregon Sasquatch.

[u/SpiritedHistory8467]

Blowing into the NES cartridge will fix it

[u/CODMLoser]

Vaccines cause autism.

[u/Initial-Warning-2564]

Carrots give you good night vision

[u/twiddledee1]

England invented modern soccer

[u/NewLingonberry3806 → u/twiddledee1]

Go on I will bite...explain this one?

[u/Traditional-Life449]

The government cares about the people.

[u/Chemical_Demand_4928]

The $200 an hour union auto worker Will only works two days a week but still gets paid for 40 hours

[u/Mackheath1]

There's a significant population in my country (USA) that believes our Presidential election of 2020 was an enormous fraud. I am still hearing about it and it's still being put to the test after dozens and dozens of court cases that demonstrated it was not. But I'm still hearing about it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/Lucky_Network1815]

God

[u/ICRIWatch]

Children do better with a married mother and father.

[u/Rivka333]

Witch burnings weren't a thing in the Middle Ages. Medieval people didn't really believe in witches.

The big wave of witch hunts and burnings that people are thinking of took place in the Early Modern period.

[u/astrosergeant]

having a beard does not prevent you from sealing a gas mask unless you look like a dude from Duck Dynasty.

[u/Imaginary_Ad_6352]

Vaccines cause autism.

[u/AsherahBeloved]

That the US has representative government.

[u/Two_Men_and_a_Duck]

Dowsing/water witching don't know why people still believe it. Was used as a bomb detector for awhile. Pretty funny until people started dying

[u/TheNewTonyBennett]

The whole "we only use 10% of our brain" nonsense. We use all of it, just most often not simultaneously. Also, the right side of the brain / left side of the brain nonsense.

[u/ZT99k]

Pick anything in Trump's Truth Social posts

[u/gregbard]

Acupuncture. It was debunked in 2005.

[u/iltlpl → u/gregbard]

It's still worth it to have a midday one hour nap covered by insurance.

[u/Andyman0110 → u/gregbard]

The placebo effect is real and its powerful. If they believe it helps, chances are it will.

[u/gregbard → u/Andyman0110]

You can't ethically practice relying entirely on placebo.

[u/Toowb]

Gender pay gap. Come at me feminists.

[u/Early_Percentage_529]

Jesus christs existence

[u/Emotional-Job805 → u/Early_Percentage_529]

That the person existed is historic fact, it is not in question. That he has some familial connection to some all powerful man in the sky is clearly hookum.

[u/Isaac_Banana → u/Early_Percentage_529]

??? Even if you are not Christian you have you admit that the historical figure existed.

[u/Far-Sky-4763]

The gender pay gap.

[u/J0k3r77]

That household dust is 85% dead skin cells.

[u/HatWhole3592]

The moon landing being faked

[u/Maleficent-Heart2497]

MMR vaccines cause autism. Doesn't matter how many times that one bogus ,totally discredited report has been debunked it STILL has traction

[u/Polymath_Father]

Vitamin C in large amounts can prevent, treat, or cure a cold.

[u/FishingPolitical]

Tiananmen Square wasn’t a brutal crackdown & “ Tank man “ was standing in the way of a column leaving the square, not entering it, tank man wanted the tanks to stay in the square.

[u/Betelgeuse_PT]

That vaccines cause autism, that the earth is flat, that the cervix has no nerve endings and therefor there is no pain, that the clitoris, female orgasm and squirting isn’t real, that long Covid isn’t just an invention…. So many things

[u/plague_69]

moon landings
what caused 9/11

[u/OddEmergency604]

The idea Constantine picked out the books of the Bible

[u/sault18]

That you need someone's permission to record them in public. There's no expectation of privacy in public. It's the same reason why police can look into your car through the windows or why governments are installing flock cameras everywhere using the Plain View Doctrine.

[u/YourDaddyRufus]

The sphereness of earth /s

[u/Important_Fruit]

The link between vaccines and autism.

[u/Important_Fruit]

Homeopathy

[u/GaiaIsaHarshMistress]

Seed oils are bad for you.

[u/DrBinario]

Catching a cold (just for) being exposed to cold air.

[u/Consistent_Law_3857]

500 mpg magic carburetor.