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* You may have read that the common claim that spinach are rich in iron is an UrbanLegend, originated when someone [[MisplacedADecimalPoint mistakenly added a zero]] when writing down the result of chemical analysis. However, the "added a zero" story is itself a rumor with no evidence to back it up. So, is spinach a good source of iron after all? No. While spinach is decently rich in iron (for a vegetable), [[https://www.nutritics.com/p/news_Why-Most-Iron-In-Spinach-Is-Useless the form of this iron and the presence of other chemicals make it hard for your body to absorb it]].
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* You may have read that the common claim that spinach are is rich in iron is an UrbanLegend, originated when someone [[MisplacedADecimalPoint mistakenly added a zero]] when writing down the result of chemical analysis. However, the "added a zero" story is itself a rumor with no evidence to back it up. So, is spinach a good source of iron after all? No. While spinach is decently rich in iron (for a vegetable), [[https://www.nutritics.com/p/news_Why-Most-Iron-In-Spinach-Is-Useless the form of this iron and the presence of other chemicals make it hard for your body to absorb it]].
* There was a hypothesis that Tyrannosaurs was closely related to Compsognathids based on the fact that both had only two fingers on each hand. It was later discovered that Compsognathids actually had three fingers on each hand, but paleontologists now generally agree that Tyrannosaurids were more closely related to them than to the Carnosaurs they were once lumped in with.
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* The discovery of the BystanderSyndrome in psychology after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese murder of Kitty Genovese]]. The popular story that people still know goes that thirty-eight people watched by and did nothing, not even call the police, as she was stabbed to death for half an hour in their yard. This prompted research into the psychological phenomena that could cause people to behave like that, which are still recognized as real. However, in this case, the story as it was was apparently nothing but lousy newspaper reporting, and the witnesses had in fact a) not been able to see what was really happening and b) called the police anyway.
* In 2015, an attention-getting study was done, showing that a simple, 10-minute conversation with a stranger who turned out to be gay could measurably change people's opinions on gay rights. It made quite a stir, until it was discovered that the grad student running the study apparently [[BlatantLies made up all the data]], and the study was retracted. The same group that discovered this fraud did a [[http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-two-grad-students-uncovered-michael-lacour-fraud-and-a-way-to-change-opinions-on-transgender-rights/ study of their own]], and found that the original conclusions were ''actually correct'', if somewhat less dramatic than originally claimed, and for a different reason: the stranger didn't have to be gay, they just had to seem open-minded and "help" the interviewee [[GladYouThoughtOfIt come to the conclusion on their own]] (i.e. it's not empathy driving the change in opinion, it's people thinking they changed their minds on their own).
* Vedic scriptures prescribed ghee to schizophrenic people because it was believed to have healing properties since it came from cows, which are sacred in Hindu culture. Ghee is high in Vitamin D, which helps with psychosis.
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* The discovery of the BystanderSyndrome in psychology after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese murder of Kitty Genovese]]. The popular story that people still know goes that thirty-eight people watched by and did nothing, not even call the police, as she was stabbed to death for half an hour in their yard. This prompted research into the psychological phenomena that could cause people to behave like that, which are still recognized as real. However, in this case, the story as it was was apparently nothing but lousy newspaper reporting, and the witnesses had in fact a) not been able to see what was really happening and b) called the police anyway.
* In 2015, an attention-getting study was done, showing that a simple, 10-minute conversation with a stranger who turned out to be gay could measurably change people's opinions on gay rights. It made quite a stir, until it was discovered that the grad student running the study apparently [[BlatantLies made up all the data]], and the study was retracted. The same group that discovered this fraud did a [[http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-two-grad-students-uncovered-michael-lacour-fraud-and-a-way-to-change-opinions-on-transgender-rights/ study of their own]], and found that the original conclusions were ''actually correct'', if somewhat less dramatic than originally claimed, and for a different reason: the stranger didn't have to be gay, they just had to seem open-minded and "help" the interviewee [[GladYouThoughtOfIt come to the conclusion on their own]] (i.e. it's not empathy driving the change in opinion, it's people thinking they changed their minds on their own).
* Vedic scriptures prescribed ghee to schizophrenic people because it was believed to have healing properties since it came from cows, which are sacred in Hindu culture. Ghee is high in Vitamin D, which helps with psychosis.
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* The discovery of the BystanderSyndrome in psychology after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese murder of Kitty Genovese]]. The popular story that people still know goes that thirty-eight people watched by and did nothing, not even call the police, as she was stabbed to death for half an hour in their yard. This prompted research into the psychological phenomena that could cause people to behave like that, which are still recognized as real. However, in this case, the story as it was was apparently nothing but lousy newspaper reporting, and the witnesses had in fact a) not been able to see what was really happening and b) called the police anyway.
* In 2015, an attention-getting study was done, showing that a simple, 10-minute conversation with a stranger who turned out to be gay could measurably change people's opinions on gay rights. It made quite a stir, until it was discovered that the grad student running the study apparently [[BlatantLies made up all the data]], and the study was retracted. The same group that discovered this fraud did a [[http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-two-grad-students-uncovered-michael-lacour-fraud-and-a-way-to-change-opinions-on-transgender-rights/ study of their own]], and found that the original conclusions were ''actually correct'', if somewhat less dramatic than originally claimed, and for a different reason: the stranger didn't have to be gay, they just had to seem open-minded and "help" the interviewee [[GladYouThoughtOfIt come to the conclusion on their own]] (i.e. it's not empathy driving the change in opinion, it's people thinking they changed their minds on their own).
* Vedic scriptures prescribed ghee to schizophrenic people because it was believed to have healing properties since it came from cows, which are sacred in Hindu culture. Ghee is high in Vitamin D, which helps with psychosis.
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* The discovery of the BystanderSyndrome in psychology after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese murder of Kitty Genovese]]. The popular story that people still know goes that thirty-eight people watched by and did nothing, not even call the police, as she was stabbed to death for half an hour in their yard. This prompted research into the psychological phenomena that could cause people to behave like that, which are still recognized as real. However, in this case, the story as it was was apparently nothing but lousy newspaper reporting, and the witnesses had in fact a) not been able to see what was really happening and b) called the police anyway.
* In 2015, an attention-getting study was done, showing that a simple, 10-minute conversation with a stranger who turned out to be gay could measurably change people's opinions on gay rights. It made quite a stir, until it was discovered that the grad student running the study apparently [[BlatantLies made up all the data]], and the study was retracted. The same group that discovered this fraud did a [[http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-two-grad-students-uncovered-michael-lacour-fraud-and-a-way-to-change-opinions-on-transgender-rights/ study of their own]], and found that the original conclusions were ''actually correct'', if somewhat less dramatic than originally claimed, and for a different reason: the stranger didn't have to be gay, they just had to seem open-minded and "help" the interviewee [[GladYouThoughtOfIt come to the conclusion on their own]] (i.e. it's not empathy driving the change in opinion, it's people thinking they changed their minds on their own).
* Vedic scriptures prescribed ghee to schizophrenic people because it was believed to have healing properties since it came from cows, which are sacred in Hindu culture. Ghee is high in Vitamin D, which helps with psychosis.
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* During WWII, a German spy told his superiors what he had discovered while investigating the rate of U.S. tank production. Feeling that the rate of production was too incredibly high to be true, High Command recalled the spy believing he had been discovered and was being fed false info. He was indeed being fed false info, only much LOWER than the real tank production numbers, which were mind boggling.
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* During WWII, a German spy told his superiors what he had discovered while investigating the rate of U.S. tank production. Feeling that the rate of production was too incredibly high to be true, High Command recalled the spy believing he had been discovered and was being fed false info. He was indeed being fed false info, only much LOWER than the real tank production numbers, which were mind boggling. [[note]] That bring said, it wouldn't have taken much for the Germans to be disbelieving of production numbers, given that the German frame of reference was building thousands of tanks instead of ''tens'' of thousands (it was only in 1943-1944 that Germany broke the 10,000 mark, and in 1944 actually approached parity with US production -- because the US had ''dramatically scaled back'' its production that year from damn near 40,000 to "only" 20,000) and the "total war" pledge made in 1943 was finally coming to fruition in Germany -- before then, Germany was still on a partial war footing.[[/note]]
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* Nearly every culture that has developed a calendar has also developed some form of astrology. Western astrology sticks to the idea that the planets are responsible for things, and tries to adjust for new astronomical discoveries, while Eastern astrology long ago divorced itself from the concept of literal stars and instead speaks of energies and natural cycles, using stars as merely time-markers and metaphor. Either way, science has determined that birth month has a surprising influence on your prospects for mental and physical health with, for example, April being a peak month for autism while October is a peak month for respiratory illness. Both are predicted in most astrological systems, and science does not quite have a solid theory as to why yet, but odds are it has nothing to do with elemental energy or astronomical bodies without even gravitational influence on Earth.
** The likely influencing factors are availability of food and sunlight over the preceding 40 weeks.
** The likely influencing factors are availability of food and sunlight over the preceding 40 weeks.
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* Nearly every culture that has developed a calendar has also developed some form of astrology. Western astrology sticks to the idea that the planets are responsible for things, and tries to adjust for new astronomical discoveries, while Eastern astrology long ago divorced itself from the concept of literal stars and instead speaks of energies and natural cycles, using stars as merely time-markers and metaphor. Either way, science has determined that birth month has a surprising influence on your prospects for mental and physical health with, for example, April being a peak month for autism while October is a peak month for respiratory illness. Both are predicted in most astrological systems, and science does not quite have a solid theory as to why yet, but odds are more likely that it has nothing to do with more concrete, seasonal environmental factors like weather patterns or availability of food and sunlight over the preceding 40 weeks than with elemental energy or astronomical bodies without even gravitational influence on Earth.
** The likely influencing factors are availability of food and sunlight over the preceding 40 weeks.Earth.
** The likely influencing factors are availability of food and sunlight over the preceding 40 weeks.
