Still got people screaming about Aspartame causing cancer despite that study also being disproven and the whole study design shown to completely shit (Rats were given equivalent of 32 cans a day of diet soft drink). Issue is that most people are massively uneducated, and they don't want to be 'educated', they want to scream and shout in their echo chambers of other uneducated people on topics they've got 0 clue. I work in advanced rehabilitation and the amount of shit that I have to disprove constantly just to have clients turn around anyway and best case waste money, or worst case hurt themselves further, simply because of all the flashy and convincing advertising on social media is insane. Literally had a guy come back to me after reinjuring his back because he stopped doing the exercises we'd been doing and bought herbal teas that he'd been told would 'realign his chakras' which is what was 'causing his pain and injuries' (nevermind that I had him deadlifting 160kg several months post L3-5 bulge, when a month post injury he still couldn't even bend over without significant pain but apparently this wasn't progress to him).
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u/Karpaltunnel83 Jan 31 '25
Fun fact: The doctor that made the "Vaccine causes Autism" claim has been disproven multiple times and even lost his doctorate for it