40 Myths People Think Are True, Yet They Are in Reality Very, Very False, As Shared In This Online Thread

Vaccines cause autism…..

Trickle down economics.

That there are dozens of hot singles in my area just dying to meet me.

When I had cancer a few years back and was doing chemotherapy I had people who constantly questioned that I actually "had cancer" due to the fact that my hair didn't fall out until I was actually in remission (Had been off chemo for about 2-3 weeks when my hair started gradually thinning and falling out).

It's a complete myth that every single person's hair will have the same reaction to chemo. Some people lose hair right away, some don't. Everybody is different.

I still believe that if any of my limbs hang off the bed while sleeping that a monster will grab them. I also believe that the moment I remember this and pull them back on the bed is just in the nick of time before a monster grabs them.

You can't prove there isn't a monster under my bed.

Fish only have a 5 second memory. My fish are fed automatically on a timer and they know dinner time better than my goddamn cat

Religion imo

Tear here to open.

The whole “Alpha/Beta male” thing

“Lightning never strikes the same place twice.”

Yes it does, that’s the entire reason for lightning rods on buildings.

That humans only use 10% of their brain. This is false, regardless of how those who proclaim this myth seemingly demonstrate that it is in fact true.

That you eat spiders in your sleep.

Spider will not knowingly walk into a preditors mouth.

They can sense both the heartbeat, heat and noise from humans. All things that would alert them not to go into our mouth.

Life is fair, and bad things only happen to people who deserve it.

“Do what you love and never work a day in your life.”

No one is paying me to play video games and eat pizza.

That there are magic pills that make you lose weight and gain muscle without ever going to a gym. Or that there are snake oils that will take years off of your face and make you look young. There's a sucker born every minute.

There are dumber ones out there, but the one I, as an estate lawyer, deal with constantly is the idea that there needs to be a "reading" of the will, where the family all gather and the lawyer reads it aloud to them for the first time. We don't do that, we just mail everyone their own copy if they want it.

It's a really stubbornly persistent one because people continue to see scenes of it in movies and TV shows, where it's used for some big dramatic reveal. I've even had irate beneficiaries insist that the administration of the estate can't be "official" until there's a reading.

Way, *way* back, like 150 years ago or so, I believe we used to do something like that at times because you couldn't exactly presume literacy on the part of the beneficiaries, but now we feel it's a pretty safe bet that you can either read it or find someone who can.

Corporations care or even exist for any reason other than to make money.

"Lie detectors" as a literal thing.

There's a reason they aren't admissible as evidence in court in most places.

Still blows my mind that people think the Earth is flat.

That Einstein failed his grade school math class. It was the subject of a Ripley’s Believe It or Not column in 1935 and Einstein himself refuted the article. In primary school he had been at the top of class and by 15 he had mastered differential and integral calculus.