28 Popular Beliefs That Have Been Proven Wrong By Science.

The tricky thing with beliefs is that we all think ours are correct.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 2 years ago in Wow

The tricky thing with beliefs is that we all think ours are correct.

1
Torture doesn’t work. It has never worked. It was proven that torture doesn’t work before America was colonized.Torture DOES produce confessions, but it doesn’t reveal the truth.

2
You don't have to wait 24 hours to call the police to file a missing person's report. Never wait 24 hours. Every hour that passes means you are less likely to find said person. Dead or alive.

3
Back in the olden days, people just turned 30 or so and died. The infant mortality rate was just much higher, but if you made it to adulthood, living to be a senior was not that rare.
4
Goldfish have a three second memory. They don’t and, supposedly, you can even train them to do tricks.

5
There is an alpha wolf in a pack. Like the person who made the first claim debunked his own claim, but nobody cared.
6
Most dietary information that is widely accepted by the public was from studies that have been proven wrong since the 70s
7
You can catch colds from being outside without a hat. Colds are caused by viruses, not cold temperatures

8
As a cat lover, it always drives me insane that so many people will automatically give a stray they found milk. Most cats are lactose intolerant.
9
Most things that tout "detoxifying" properties.
10
Cracking knuckles = arthritis

11
We only use 10% of our brain
12
Lightning never strikes in one place twice.
13
Used to be a popular belief that if you sit to close to the tv your eyes will go bad. But Ive recently come to realize that children who sit “too close” to the tv might already have poor vision, but cannot communicate it, so when they go get their eyes checked it appears that the causation is them sitting to close to the tv, when it was probably genetics or other factors. Thus causing people to think that the cause was them sitting too close to tv.

14
That if you shave it’ll grow back longer and thicker
15
That bubblegum get stuck in your stomach for 99999999999900000 years
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That we taste different things in different areas on the tongue.

17
Despite popular belief, urine is not sterile.
18
The belief that sugar causes hyperactivity in children. This belief has been around for decades, but numerous scientific studies have shown that there is no evidence to support it.
19
Carrots do not improve your eyesight.

20
Hiding under a highway overpass is actually not a good way to survive a tornado.It has been scientifically proven that the wind gets concentrated and the speeds increase underneath the overpass.If you aren’t shielded by a bridge girder or something similar you’ll just get swept away and mulched.Your best bet for survival if you cannot escape the tornado is to find the nearest deep ditch or hole.
21
That rice will make the birds who eat it explode. Birds eat rice all the time! It's actually good for them, especially brown rice.I believe this myth was made up so people would stop throwing rice at weddings, but harming the birds wasn't an actual risk. It was getting rice grains stuck in your ear that was.
22
“Fish don’t feel pain” , and simultaneously “Fish do feel pain” are both arguments which ignore centuries of research.They lack a Neocortex which deems them unable to “process” pain, however they have several nociceptors located around the mouth which allows them to “feel it”. What does this mean? Well nobody actually knows yet, and it is largely open to interpretation. It’s unfathomably hard for us to understand, as we can both feel and process pain. Some scientists describe “acting on instinct” as symptoms of pain when these nociceptors become compromised. Some scientists describe it as just that though, acting on instinct based on what parts of their body are compromised and hence weaker or vulnerable.For example : You hook and release a bass. That Bass now moves slower, eats a little less, and socializes less. Are these actions the result of the fish acknowledging the compromised nociceptors and acting accordingly while giving itself a chance to heal? Or is the fish genuinely hurting and sad? Research points to both being correct, but neither have enough evidence to prove anything yet.All we know with certainty is that we don’t have a definite answer supporting either argument, so anyone that leans hard one way or another doesn’t know what they are talking about.

23
You can swim after you eat it's no problem
24
A frog thrown in a pot of boiling water will jump out immediately. If a frog is put in a pot of cool water and that water is slowly warmed, the frog won’t notice and boil to death.This is indeed false
25
Don't know if it's been said yet still scrolling, but that male lions don't hunt or do anything. Yes, lionesses do most of the hunting but males do help if the prey is too big and strong, such as with cape buffalo or giraffe. Males do a lot, staying back and protecting the territory which is very important if there are cubs, not to mention that the mane not only blows their cover more when hunting, but it tires them out quickly as it's a bunch of hair weighing on their head. Males also have to leave their birth pride at a certain age which of course until they can find a pride, they at that point have to hunt.Also on the topic of African animals (wildlife nerd) hyenas hunt more than lions and are more successful predators, and hyenas aren't dogs. Elephants don't think you or any human is cute.Edit: I was told wrong a lion's mane doesn't weigh as much as I thought, but it does have more of a negative effect on their hunting compared to a lioness.

26
That eggs are bad for you.That eggs are good for you.Its been proven that it completely depends on your own genetic makeup on if they are good or bad for you. For some people they're healthy, for others they're not and they're bad cholesterol level skyrockets.
27
Women's periods don't sync up when they live together. Any syncing that occurs is a result of a coincidental overlap of their individual cycles.
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I just read it recently that people believe that consuming alcohol moderately has some health benefits but it was proven by a recent study that it does not have any health benefits at all.