A cool guide of commonly believed myths
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Jezus, this is bad.
So many of these are widely known and make up a misconception that doesn’t exist (bananas not on trees… you don’t say??)
Others are bad plays at words (we have 5 external senses, people often leave the external part out when they talk, so what?)
And then some are just weird, like the great wall of China being nature (and not visible from space, why go after a random joke from the 90’s?)
Just all around, this is bad
The sugar one drives me nuts. Like yeah sugar doesn’t cause DSM-5 “hyperactivity”. Like of course not! It does give a little energy boost. And the rugrats will use the highly available energy and become a hilarious unmanageable dufus for a half hour or so.
If you actually thought that candy was going to give your child a diagnosable psychiatric condition… you’re a huge fucking idiot. If you haven’t ever noticed that giving a kid a bag of sour patch kids gets them riled up, you haven’t spent much time with kids.
Yeah, that’s the one that has me doubting the entire list. My kids do get a “sugar high”.
The wording they use is off and may be technically right. but if we are going based off the wording they use i don’t think it would be a common belief.
My kids do get a “sugar high”.
No they absolutely do not, because that is not how endocrinology works. Not only are you blatantly scientifically incorrect, you’re smugly incorrect.
Fucking Trump-supporter levels of smug stupidity in this thread.
I’m just about done with lemmy to because of assholes like you. Jesus christ its worse than reddit.
All it would take is, hey not how sugar highs work you don’t actually get energy from them, what actually happens is a dopamine rush that makes people happy and happy kids tend to run around and play more.
Took me 2 minutes of googling to find that. Did i ever say this last its bullshit? Should be burned? Has no factual basis?
No, i just gave my experience, what i seem to have seen in my life, and question. I’m happy to have a conversation about it or i wouldn’t have posted.
But you just go around insulting people and comparing them to Trump supporters. Grow up. Have a damn conversation. Stop trying to turn everything into an argument
I feel that. There’s a lot of smug superiority online in general, where people seem to think that someone being incorrect about something is an invitation to insult them, and where the harder you insult them, the better. It’s sad. I blame television to some extent. TV shows and movies love to portray tough conversations ending with some sort of hard but true emotional jab that snaps the other person into understanding. Total bullshit, that rarely works in real life.
I’ve taken to politely calling them out and questioning the rationale behind their behavior. That’s what someone did to me about twenty years back and it helped me get my ass in line. I’m hoping it’ll do the same for a few of them. As the least, I know who to block if their response is just as nasty. My block list is long but my time here is much more peaceful!
You’re just repeating something scientifically false. Eating sugar absolutely does NOT “give you an energy boost.” What a smug advertisement of the fact that you’ve never taken a biochemistry course AND are so unobservant that you haven’t noticed sugar consumption is, if anything, more likely to make you feel drowsy than “energy boosted.”
Fucking unbelievable. The smug wrongness of people blows my mind.
Let’s talk this out. Not the biochemistry aspect, but the smuggery.
Was their post smug? Yes. Factually incorrect? Also yes - I’m a microbiologist, I took my share of biochem courses.
Your response was equally smug as well as condescending. Their comment was wrong but innocent in its intent. Yours, conversely, intended to disparage their comment and them as a person.
What do you intend to gain here? Not with the correction - that is valid, but it’s entirely possible to correct without being smug, condescending, and denigrating. What do you think that adds to the conversation that a simple, polite correction would lack?
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