List of random falsehoods ignorant people believe are true.
Here, with no explanation for them and no reason for posting them other than I'm annoyed and grumpy, is a list of lies and stupidity that ignorant people believe. Remember, ignorance is not terrible, but willfull ignorance is. I urge you to use the internet and found out why these are all false. Wikipedia's a perfectly fine start. I could post all the links, but in my grumpy and curmudgeony anger attempt to promote critical thinking, I'll just make you do all the work yourself.

Things that are not true:

1. Vaccines (and to a greater extent, thimerosal) cause autism.

2. Homeopathy is a catch-all category of natural cures, which includes basically anything made out of herbs, plants, or anything not FDA approved to actually treat anything.

3. Natural is good for you, or is somehow innately superior to man-made products.

4. Evolution claims we all came from monkeys.

5. An eyeball is too complex to have evolved over time, and must have been intelligently designed.

6. Evolution is a theory about how life began, or as Ben Stein puts it "Evolution says we all came from a lightning strike in a mud puddle!"

7. Herbs, plants, and any other natural products that aren't FDA approved to actually treat illness or disease are secretly effective, and perfectly safe to use. There is of course no reason to ever mention to a doctor that you're taking an herbal supplement, because herbs are magic, and fix your problems without causing any of those pesky chemical reactions that might, you know, kill you.

8. Chi exists.

9. Western/Ancient/Traditional remedies have been used for thousands of years, and are therefore superior to modern remedies.

10. Kevin Trudeau is just trying to help!

11. You need to cleanse your body of toxins.

12. Organic [anything] is innately good, and better than non-organic [anything].

13. You should be taking vitamins every day, no matter how good your diet is.

14. There's no such thing as a coincidence.

15. Quantum mechanics means anything is possible.

16. The Founding Fathers of America were (especially Thomas Jefferson) all Christian.

17. Homeopathy is not stupid.

18. The full moon makes people crazy, or the full moon makes crazy people crazier, usually resulting in hospitals being busier on full moons.

19. Your tongue only tastes certain kinds of flavors on certain sections of its surface: sweet on the tip, bitter to the back-sides, etc.

20. There is no gravity on the moon.

21. The phases of the moon come from the earth's shadow obscuring part of the moon's surface.

22. Disease and illness can be overcome through sheer willpower.


And of course:

23. People only use ten percent of their brains.