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

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

That cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis.

That dogs can only see in black and white. This is false.

Astrology

Wolf hierarchy with alpha on top and omega at the bottom.

Qanon

That NASA spent billions developing a pen to work in space and the Russians just used a pencil.

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.

Isn’t that whole Myers-Briggs personality test recognized as a complete fabrication.

The food pyramid.

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.

That you swallow 8 spiders a year in your sleep.

Blood in your veins is blue and red in your arteries. Literally every elementary school teacher I had kept this lie going.

Different parts of your tongue don't actually detect different types of taste. Your tongue is the same all over.

Shaving making hair grow in thicker.

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

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.

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.

That people are “right” or “left” brain thinkers and that it has any bearing on her personality and level of logic or creativity.

If you pull out a grey hair three more grow in its place, my sister still believes this one.