You know that feeling when something gets said so many times that people just start treating it as fact, no matter how shaky it was in the first place?
Like, Santa didn’t make the cut, but God sure did.
What are other examples of things that basically became true through repetition alone?
18 Comments
frisbird@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 267d
Communism killed 100 million people.
Private property is required for freedom.
Markets are freedom.
Capitalism is free exchange.
Working the land gives you rights over it.
All of life is competition.
The weak die out and the strong survive.
Evolution is driven by the survival of the individual animals the are most fit for their environment.
The lymph system is not connected to the brain.
Black people have high pain tolerance.
Women have low pain tolerance.
Babies don't feel pain the way we do until they have sufficiently developed.
Human psychological development stops at 18 and after that it's all acquisition of skills and knowledge and the use of discipline and will power.
Fossilization destroys all soft tissue and no soft tissue can survive the process.
Race is genetic.
davel@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 267d
Fine, Bogart the whole /thread.
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 267d
Ooh I've never realized that women and black people are both denied access to pain meds for opposite reasons. I mean I knew it was baloney, but I never thought about the fact that it was exactly contradictory.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 267d
That you need a Credit Score
They've only existed since the 80s, but they're now seen as essential, and unlikely to go away
But they don't need to exist, and are actively harmful to people, and often just straight-up incorrect
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org · 11 pts · 267d
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 267d
Well they are pretty correct when you think about them not as does this person pay their bills, but as will this person make the bank money.
That's why you're penalized for paying off something early and credit cards help your score but consistently paying rent doesn't.
Credit score just shows they can make interest off you, not that you're good with money, and in fact I feel like the people who are best with money (saves up and buys things cash) are just penalized with crappy credit scores.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 267d
Ah you've fallen for the oldest trick in the book, may I interest you in this $6 bill?
Fun fact: credit score disproportionately harms minority groups
rmuk@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 267d
Kinda weird how you started by asking an interesting question but then spend the last two-thirds of your post going full-on tin foil hat.
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 267d
valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 267d
That would apply to a lot of entries of this list, which is a really interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
About 9/11 or actually any other major event: you typically get a lot of contradictory witness statements with so many people. The real picture only emerges when you have analyzed a lot of statements and looked at evidence. Thus early reporting often relies on a few statements that are found to be wrong later - perfect fuel for a conspiracy theory.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 267d
People in the European Middle Ages (5th–15th centuries CE, in case you're curious) thought the earth was flat.
mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 267d
That science can't explain how bumble-bees are able to fly, since their wings are too small for their weight.
PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 267d
The pyramids where built by slaves.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 267d
Feels like that is the major way of doing things by the current administration in my country.
PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 267d
Cooked ham is healthy. I think people have truly believed the ads in that case.
PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 267d
Right after 9/11, before they got the memo, how TV channels kept saying first responders had heard a bomb in the base of the building and later they all started saying it collapsed due to structural damage from the plane impact, and it just got accepted with no one bothering to question it. This was prior to the investigations so they couldn't possibly have known.
Naich@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 267d
Bob Holness played Saxaphone on Jerry Rafferty's Baker Street.
JayFonduh@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 264d
MakingWork@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 267d
I think the name you're looking for is called the Mandela effect.
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org · -4 pts · 267d
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 267d
I think i may be missing the point of your comment? People don't think smoking is bad for you because of rumors being spread. They think it's bad because of increased risk of cancer and disease.
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 267d
All of those are true, and well-researched using the scientific method.