The culmination of the previous month’s worth of posts about common misconceptions and science myths: 16 different ways to dispels rumors, quell hearsay, and squelch quackery. So, here you go:
Alcohol Does Not Kill Brain Cells
The Earth is Hottest When It’s Furthest Away
It’s Impossible to Swallow your Tongue
Cockroaches Would Not Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse
An Asteroid Field Would be Easy to Fly Through
How Much Heat do you Lose Through your Head?
Goldfish Do Not Have a 3-Second Memory
The Daddy Long Legs is not “the Most Poisonous Spider”
Eating Turkey is not What Makes you Drowsy
Velociraptors Were Fully Feathered
Diamonds do Not Come from Coal
Hair and Fur are the Same Thing
Lack of Oxygen Turns Blood Red, not Blue
Tidal Waves and Tsunamis are Not the Same Thing
Sitting Too Close to the TV is Not Bad for Your Eyes
The Hemisphere You’re in Does Not Change the Spin of the Water
