Here are some "pseudo-common sense": people should drink 8 glasses of water every day-this recommended amount of water actually includes the water in the food we eat, such as fruits and vegetables, as well as coffee and drinks.
Chewing gum will stay in your stomach for seven years-although chewing gum is indigestible, the way our body handles indigestible things is to excrete it. Men think about sex every 7 seconds on average-if a man is awake 16 hours a day, he will think about sex 57,000 times in 24 hours, so it is impossible to do anything else.
Reading in dim light will affect your eyesight-there is no evidence to support this view. Reading in dim light does cause visual fatigue and a certain degree of "transient visual decline", but after the eyes get a good rest, their vision will return to normal.
The flu vaccine will cause the flu-this is a "lie". Influenza vaccine is made of inactivated virus, which won't make people sick. People swallow eight spiders a year-people roll when they sleep to prevent spiders from approaching, and many people don't open their mouths at all when they sleep.
2. What are the wrong common sense in our life?
There are often some so-called common sense in life that tells you what you can and can't do, but from a real scientific point of view, these are just "pseudo-common sense". In fact, you are the one who has been cheated by life.
Recently, two American medical experts published a book, which revealed many commonly accepted so-called "medical common sense", some of which were even naked lies.
American medical experts write books to expose "false common sense"
In the introduction of their new book, Professor Aaron Carroll and Professor Rachel freeman said that the purpose of this book is to "expose these legends and misunderstandings and restore the truth, including some weird and worrying statements".
Carol is a professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and Freeman is an assistant professor of pediatrics. They surveyed 3 100 men and came to a conclusion that the length of men's shoes has nothing to do with the length of genitals.
This book also lists some good examples. For example, eating at night can make people fat. In fact, people get fat because they consume more calories than they consume. However, people often associate more meals a day with weight gain. The author believes that the decisive factor is how much to eat, not when to eat.
Here are some "pseudo-common sense" refuted by two experts in the book:
People should drink 8 glasses of water every day-the recommended amount of water actually includes the water in the food we eat, such as fruits and vegetables, as well as coffee and drinks.
Chewing gum will stay in your stomach for seven years-although chewing gum is indigestible, the way our body handles indigestible things is to excrete it.
Men think about sex every 7 seconds on average-if a man is awake 16 hours a day, he will think about sex 57,000 times in 24 hours, so it is impossible to do anything else.
Reading in dim light will affect your eyesight-there is no evidence to support this view. Reading in dim light does cause visual fatigue and a certain degree of "transient visual decline", but after the eyes get a good rest, their vision will return to normal.
The flu vaccine will cause the flu-this is a "lie". Influenza vaccine is made of inactivated virus, which won't make people sick.
People swallow eight spiders a year-people roll when they sleep to prevent spiders from approaching, and many people don't open their mouths at all when they sleep.
3. How are the rumors on WeChat fabricated?
"One day in Beijing is equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes", "Eating a pack of instant noodles takes 32 days to detoxify" and "Microwave heating food will produce carcinogens" ... Have your Weibo and WeChat friends been screened by these seemingly "scientific" news? Have you ever forwarded such a message because of panic? "High-quality" scientific rumors are more vague and confusing than other rumors, so they spread widely and do great harm. Know yourself and know yourself, and you will win every battle. Hurry up "ups and downs" and practice a few tricks "defense against the dark arts."
To fabricate a "high-quality" scientific rumor is inseparable from four "classic" elements:
1, the text quality is good. There are typos, sentences are not fluent, and the format is not standardized, which is easy to cause doubt;
2. The content should be closely related to the daily life of the audience. Compared with "Polaris is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere", "milk causes cancer" and "salt can fight cancer" are more likely to attract the attention of the public at the first time, thus showing an explosive spread trend;
3. Use "imprecise science". Imitation of "common sense", mixed with all kinds of information, is difficult to distinguish. A widely used means in scientific rumors is "on toxicity regardless of dose". For example, taking shrimp and a lot of vitamins at the same time may affect human health and produce toxic substances. Seafood is easy to be poisoned when eaten with foods rich in vitamins. Last week, a girl in Taiwan Province Province ate seafood and vitamins at the same time and died suddenly.
4. Citing scientific research documents can greatly enhance the "credibility" of rumors.
In the spirit of getting to the bottom of the matter, netizens also dug up the black history of some rumor masters: after the rise of the Internet, some former best-selling writers turned to online marketing. Driven by attractive economic interests, a large number of online soft articles with marketing purposes have been produced. For them, spreading rumors is not the purpose, but attracting attention. What matters is the amount of forwarding, the number of clicks, and the amount of attention.
In addition, we should be especially cautious about articles with the following words in the title: vigilance, shock, urgent notice, urgent help, Chinese concern, CCTV exposure, terrible, too important, quickly turn them out and pass them on to family and lovers. Be sure to read them.
Cao Tianyuan, a popular science writer, said: "If a person believes in any rumors of natural science just because he advocates science, it can only show that what he advocates is not science at all, but just the opposite superstition."
How to break this blind scientific superstition and stifle the scientific rumor of "high quality"? Cao Tianyuan suggested that on the one hand, the network is needed to enhance the purification ability and popularize scientific common sense. On the other hand, netizens need to consciously supplement their scientific knowledge and cultivate the "scientific spirit". When faced with some information from unknown sources, they should learn to use some basic scientific methods to distinguish authenticity. If the analysis with strict logic and sufficient evidence is a powerful medicine to dispel rumors, then cultivating readers' reasonable skepticism is tantamount to a vaccine.