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Through the course of the growth of humanity, science has worked to debunk things once considered
factual.
Despite the evidence against, there are still dated and fantastical myths out there - believed
to be true allegedly based on science - that people refuse to let go of.
For various reasons, these top 10 myths are among the more unbelievable that people cling
to.
10.
Men Are Sex-Obsessed Despite popular belief, men don't actually
think about sex every 7 seconds.
In a study performed by the Kinsey Institute, only 54% of men in the study only thought
about sex several times a day.
Further supporting the debunking of this somewhat insulting myth is Terri Fisher and a team
of researchers at Ohio State University.
Providing 283 college students with clickers - 120 males and 163 females - the study had
students press each time they thought of sex, food, or sleep.
At the end of the study, it was found that the average male student thought of sex 19
times a day, while females about 10.
So, ladies, you're not as piggish as you may think!
9.
The Coriolis Force and Drains As children, a fun little rumor circulated
that regions on the opposite end of the Earth's hemisphere experienced a reverse rotation
of water going down the drain.
It sounded plausible enough, especially when scientific terms like "Coriolis Effect"
started to get thrown around.
The more you dig into this harmless myth, however, the quicker you realize how the myth
was created.
The Coriolis Force, which is responsible for the deflection of objects to the right in
the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern, has no bearing on what happens
to water as it drains in the sink of your bathtub.
The force is more responsible for altering the course of air masses while the design
of the toilet basin and force of the water determines the direction of drainage flow.
8.
A Full Moon Affects Behavior Unless you're a werewolf or some other form
of shape-shifter, the likelihood that a full moon affects you on any physical or mental
level is incredibly low.
Since it is such a common belief that a lunar cycle can have a physiological effect on people,
researchers over time have employed the scientific method to debunk the fantastical claim.
In 1985, psychologists James Rotten and Ivan Kelly combed through 37 different studies
on the effects of lunar cycles and concluded that there is no correlation between a full
moon and an increase in murders, suicides, or other drastic behaviors.
Seven years later, an additional 20 studies were reviewed, this time focusing on suicide
contemplation.
Again, researchers found no link.
7.
Antibiotics are Great for Viral Infections If your doctor is quick to toss an antibiotic
your way after claiming you're suffering a viral infection, it's time to switch doctors.
Why?
Because any medical professional should know that an antibiotic can only hinder recovery
of a viral infection.
Despite how whiny a patient gets for quick relief, treating a virus with an antibiotic
is not going to provide any medical benefits.
In fact, taking an antibiotic with no bacterial infection present can increase the chances
of developing an infection that resists antibiotics.
So, the next time you're feeling a bit under the weather, don't start demanding antibiotics.
They're not the cure-all that many people think.
6.
Water is a Natural Conductor Watch enough movies and you may start to believe
that water is the perfect conductor of electricity, but scientifically speaking that's not really
accurate.
In fact, pure water is a much better insulator than conductor.
So, is Hollywood lying to us?
Kind of, but not intentionally.
You see, it's not the water itself that conducts electricity so easily but the minerals
and particles found in water that hasn't been purified.
Since it's unlikely that you'll find puddles of completely pure water, that is, water completely
free of charged ions, it's just much safer to assume that any body of water you encounter
would be a fantastic conductor.
5.
Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice It most certainly does.
In fact, if you keep a close watch on cloud-to-ground lightning in your area over a long period
of time, chances are you'll find that lightning doesn't go out of its way to avoid somewhere
it already struck.
After the initial strike, no change is made to the storm or the area hit that would make
a follow-up strike impossible.
There have been spots hit as many as 50 times, such as the WVAH TV tower in West Virginia,
or 10 times in one night, such as at the Sears Tower in Chicago.
4.
Blood Without Oxygen is Blue If at any point you ever find out that your
blood is blue-ish in color, it may be time to start tracing the lineage of your family.
Truth of the matter is, regardless of what myths you may have heard about the color of
your blood, it is always red.
Even when it's not heavily oxygenated, it's still a deep shade of red.
What trips up people that believe their blood is blue is the color of their veins, which
actually has to do with the penetration of blue and red light wavelengths.
Though the blood that flows through your veins is red, the blue light travels quicker, giving
the appearance of blue veins and blue blood.
3.
A Dark Side of the Moon Since we only see one side of the moon here
on Earth, it became a pretty popular notion that the side we don't see is engulfed in
darkness year round.
Science and reality disagree with this notion, however, and show that there isn't a constantly
dark side of the moon.
That side we don't see from Earth is commonly referred to as the "far side" and is actually
sunlit for a portion of the month.
Since the moon orbits Earth and Earth orbits the sun, different parts of the moon are engulfed
in darkness at different parts of the month.
The mystery behind the "Dark Side of the Moon" was revealed in 1959 with the USSR
Luna 3 mission.
2.
We Only Use 10% of Our Brain Seeing as how the brain is the most complex
organ in the human body, it's strange to think that people still believe we only use
10% of it.
In reality, we make use of virtually every part of the brain, which, at any given time,
always shows some form of activity.
From higher cognitive functions to the more basic routines our bodies go through, the
brain uses up approximately 20% of our body's energy.
To show just how active the brain is, neurologists like John Henley at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,
Minnesota used imaging technology to record brain activity over 24-hour periods.
Findings pointed to the fact that, over the course of a day, 100% of the brain winds up
being utilized.
1.
The Earth is Flat For years, it was believed that when Columbus
sailed across the Atlantic from Spain, the people of that time thought the Earth was
flat.
Long before the Italian explorer sailed, however, writers like the Greco-Egyptian scribe Claudius
Ptolemy, wrote about a rounded planet.
Columbus even owned a copy of Ptolemy's "Geography," which stated as fact that
the Earth was round.
Considering it was known as early as the 6th century, it may come as a shock that people
today still believe the Earth is flat.
Among several arguments for Flat Earth, there's the belief that satellite imagery of a rounded
Earth is fake, the concept of an ice wall keeping the oceans from spilling over the
"sides" of Earth, and a rather skewed theory that states the sun and moon are spherical
objects moving in circles above the Earth's flattened plane.
Throwing out decades of research and millennium of knowledge, flat Earthers hold true to the
ultimate myth.
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