Sun 23 Dec 2007
Previously I wrote about how being outside in the cold doesn’t give you a cold. It’s amazing how patently false ideas get accepted for truth. Recently the BMJ investigated many popular medical beliefs. They concluded that the following have no basis in fact:
- People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day
- We use only 10% of our brains
- Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
- Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser
- Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
- Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy
- Mobile phones create considerable electromagnetic interference in hospitals.
Be advised. Read all the debunking details from the British Medical Journal here.