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More Lies About the World You Believe

Aperture · 2,642 words · 13 min read · EN

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so you're 11 years old you've just scarfed down some mac and cheese and birthday cake you and your friends run wildly eager to jump in the pristine blue pool on a hot summer day and then your mom stops you saying no swimming yet wait 30 minutes she yells this from the other side of the patio we've all

heard it from our parents friends and maybe even teachers don't swim until 30 minutes after you've eaten resist the temptation but why there's this long-held belief that when blood moves to our dig itive tra to help us process food it diverts it away from other parts of our bodies like our arms and our legs

which we need to stay afloat while swimming if we don't have enough energy running through our limbs to keep us moving we might drown yes our body needs increased blood flow for digestion but not so much that it interferes with keeping our limbs functioning properly from the moment we eat food until it

leaves our stomach and moves further along in the digestion process it takes about 4 hours during those 4 hours some of the energy and oxygen that would remove lactic acid that builds up in our muscles divert to aiding digestion but we still have more than enough for a successful swim the worst that can

happen we might experience some stomach or muscle cramps but we're not going to drown the drowning myth came from a 1911 pamphlet from the Boy Scouts of America that told young boys swimming right after eating would result in dangerous cramps what started as a scare tactic has persisted for over a century good

news for all the rambunctious kids out there it's just not true it's also not the only only written in stone claim some of us have lived Our Lives by is the Great Wall of China visible from space can carrots help us see in the dark or what about cracking our Knuckles or coffee stunting our growth these

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myths are for the most part harmless to believe While others have grown into conspiracies that might have larger implications one of these is that big pharmaceutical companies are purposefully withholding a cure for cancer to protect their jobs The Conspiracy Theory goes that big pharmaceutical companies will never find a cure for cancer because it would mean that they all go

bankrupt some believe their fundraising cycle is self-sustaining preferring ongoing funding over a cure but that isn't the case cancer is a collection of related diseases each with its own complexities the theory downplays the reality that developing multiple cures for various cancers is incredibly complicated it's not about withholding a cure it's about the challenge this

conspiracy theory also overlooks the mind-blowing Technologies currently being developed in in the fight against cancer one of the most intriguing examples is this company called selsi Corporation they're transforming cancer treatment away from the harsh experiences of chemotherapy and surgery celsi a biotechnology company develops immunotherapy products for cancer autoimmune and infectious diseases here's how it works you might not

realize it but our immune system continuously fights off cancer as we age our immune system weakens making us more likely to develop cancer with each PA passing year celi believes they have the potential to build immune systems back up to fight cancer they've created an anti-cancer immune boosting drug that is given before surgery radiation and

chemotherapy have destroyed the immune system this drug has shown a 73% 5-year survival rate in head and net cancer patients compared to 45% without it to learn more about this you can visit ssi.com and support their mission to revolutionize cancer treatment so no the cancer research industry isn't one big lie they are making real progress but as

you'll see in the rest of this video sometimes a simple lie is easier to accept than a complicated truth believing that someone or something like the cancer research industry is out to get you certainly isn't an isolated incident since the 1950s people have believed that adding fluoride to a public water source is a malicious act

by the government and not a method to improve Dental Health in the 1930 scientists learned that fluoride a naturally occurring element in water could prevent Toth Decay this led to the idea of adding fluoride to Public Water Supplies despite some initial backlash studies in the 1940s and 50s found that any possible harm from the extra

fluoride was unlikely that still didn't stop theories from circulating one in particular was popularized in the 1964 film Doctor Strange Love in which the character General Ripper claims that water fluoridation is destroying humans and will make America susceptible to a communist takeover some of the anti fluoridation movement seized on this Theory While others simply viewed it as

medicine being forced on them now that narrative is still powerful some think that the addition of fluoride is backed by the sugar Lobby to encourage people to eat more sweets without the worry of getting cavities cities all around the country are starting to remove fluoride from their drinking water in response to these largely baseless concerns the

American Academy of Pediatrics says that fluoride is a safe and expensive way to boost oral health in children in fact that really hasn't changed since the beginning the first city in the United States to add fluide to its water was Grand is Michigan in 1945 11 years later cavities among 30,000 school children dropped by 60%

the American Dental Association has called fluoridation the single most important Public Health measure to prevent cavities let's take a closer look at another reported risk to the human body in the debunked Chemtrails conspiracy theory you know those white streaks trailing behind Jets there's this wide spread belief that their chemicals purposely being sprayed for sinister

reasons why well some think it's some sort of Mind Control others think it's a poison and then some think that the government can somehow alter the weather with these Chemtrails but what are they actually the white streams are called contrails they appear when water vapor condenses and freezes around an airplanes exhaust producing crystals it's the same basic

idea behind why you sometimes see your breath in colder temperatures in low humidity these crystals dissipate and disappear in high humidity they stick around and create visible Vapor Trails this humidity difference explains why some aircraft have contrails and others don't but how did this Theory even come into existence it probably started with

a 1996 research paper from the US Air Force that outlined a future weather modification system to achieve military objectives using Aerospace forces decades later people have clung on a 2017 study of a thousand people found that about 10% of them believe the conspiracy completely and almost 30% found it to be somewhat true then in

2021 a Facebook post claimed President Joe Biden manipulated weather through Chemtrails and caused Texas's week-long deep freeze earlier that year while the myth about Chemtrails is untrue its acceptance by the public Isn't So far-fetched throughout the Cold War over 750 mock chemical warfare attacks on the public were staged by the British government these exposed hundreds of

thousands of people to zinc cadmium sulfide in the process the chemical was at the time thought to be non-toxic but over the years scientists learned that with repeated exposure it can be cancerous in the ' 50s and 60s the United States did the same using the chemical to test for biological weapons as much as conspiracy theorists on the

internet might want to whip up the Chemtrails Theory that's just not true there's also the idea that the Great Wall of China is visible from space with all of its sections combined it spans over 13,000 Mi and its scale is massive it's also made from materials that can make it difficult to see from space the

human eye perceives contrast and its color isn't that different from the ground around it some astronauts have reported that the Great Wall is visible from low orbit under very specific weather and lighting conditions when the sun is low on the horizon the wall cast Shadows that make it possible to see it but it's kind of a lie that so many of

us like to believe it all originated in 1932 with a Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon that claimed the wall was the mightiest work of man the only one that would be visible to the human eye from the Moon the Wall's visibility from space became a particularly important point of Pride for the people of China

however when Yang Lee way the country's first person in space returned from his 2003 Mission he admitted that he did not see the Great Wall this had such a widespread impact that China's Ministry of Education revised Elementary School textbooks which had previously claimed that the wall was visible another lie that gives us a sense of Pride and

possibility is the claim that humans only use 10% of our brains it's one of those things you hear people say at dinner parties to try and sound smart it's so fun to talk about that it's been the subject of various movies about people who unlock extraordinary mental abilities what would happen if we were

able to access the other 90% in the 1996 movie phenomenon John Travolta gains the ability to predict earthquakes and learn foreign languages in minutes in 2014's Lucy Scarlett Johansson becomes a super skilled martial artist armed with telekinesis in the 2011 movie Limitless Bradley Cooper writes a novel and learns how to play the piano in less than a

week a 2013 Michael J fox Foundation study found that 65% of respondents agree that we only use 10% of our brains and it makes sense it's heartening to think that there's some possibility that we might become martial artists or prolific authors overnight with a little boost to our brain's processing power the truth is that scientists don't ever

think we achieve 100% brain function but it's 100 billion neurons are working at a significantly higher level than the 10% figure if we only use 10% most brain injuries would have no consequences and we know that's not the case and since natural selection discourages the development of useless structures in our bodies it would have prioritized other

parts of us over a headful of non-functioning tissue the evidence isn't just theoretical Imaging like pet and fmri scans show the brain activity of doctors and scientists in real time large areas of the brain are used in all kinds of activities from simple task like looking at pictures to more complex ones like solving math problems

researchers have yet to find a part of the brain that doesn't do anything it's hard to trace back to the origins but it seems to have first appeared in the preface to Dale Carnegie's 1936 bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People in early self-help book even back then the idea that we've only

harnessed 10% of our brain power made people believe in their own potential maybe you won't become a genius overnight but it's not all bad news we can still build brain power at any stage in life by doing challenging mental tasks it's our nature to look for quick fixes like turning on some dormant

part of our brain to get ahead some of us probably thought that eating carrots would help us see in the dark when we were kids it's true that beta carotene found in carrots is very good for Eye Health but that truth has been stretched into a vegetable that actually gives us superpowers the idea started back in

World War II as part of British propaganda put in place as a safety measure during the wars Blitz Creek attacks from Nazi Germany the British government issued city-wide blackouts while the Royal Air Force propelled German fighter planes the British planes could track the Germans thanks to the development of new radar technology but

the military couldn't make that knowledge public instead the government claimed that carrots actually helped British Pilots attack German planes in the dark so why wouldn't the British public think that if they ate carrots they would see better during the blackouts suddenly there were ads telling citizens that carrots helped keep you healthy and help see while

blackout protocols were in place and this launched an allout carrot craze so while the carrots might be good for your eyes they won't give you night vision then there are all the things we're told are bad for us like coffee which apparently stunts our growth thankfully Studies have shown that coffee is linked

to just about everything and that there's no evidence to show that it'll stop us from growing caffeine is an appetite suppressant so we might not eat as much but that doesn't really impact our growth anyway if you drink coffee while you're pregnant it can occasionally result in a lighter baby but that doesn't really have anything to

do with coffee limiting growth once we're born while coffee isn't going to stop kids from growing it can present a whole other host of health issues as we get older like anxiety an abnormal heart rate bad sleep headaches and more so even if you're a kid technically can still grow big and strong you might want

to tell them to skip the coffee anyway what about being too close to our screens or monitors can it really cause eye damage no but it can cause eye strain that feels pretty terrible with more devices than ever around our homes schools and offices it's good to be aware of how our eyes feel when we look

at them you might notice your vision blurring if you're too close or perhaps your eyes get itchy achy or tired screens aren't going to cause us any permanent damage but it also doesn't mean we should sit wide-eyed 1 in away from them similarly you might be reprimanded for cracking your knuckles a friend or parent might caution you that

cracking your knuckles leads to arthritis but just like sitting near those screens you're not doing any permanent damage by cracking them the pop we hear in a crack knuckle is the bubbles bursting in the sinovial fluid that lubricates our joints it's gross but it's not bad for you in fact crackers have the same rate of arthritis

as non- crackers the real question to ask yourself if you like to crack your knuckles isn't whether you'll get arthritis but why you can crack them in the first place for some people cracking knuckles can relieve stress or anxiety and might even be a type of coping mechanism for a larger mental health

struggle some of us live in our brains daily with lies like this we blindly believe myths that originated decades if not centuries ago because they're easy to buy into and often it's simpler to accept something as the truth instead of questioning why it might not be if we can learn anything from debunking these

types of Lies big and small it's that we should learn to be more critical of the claims that come our way something might enter our heads when we're young and sit there for us to pass on to the next Generation some of these claims might not negatively affect our lives but some of them might lead us down dangerously

untruthful paths life at its best is a constant quest for truth even if that truth can be hard to find