What you were taught “Flu shots give you the flu”
What we know now A common misconception…
“Updated understanding emerged around 2020”
Updated for whom? Anti-vaccine idiots?
Can you think of any now?
Submitted 1 day ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Echolynx@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
ulterno@programming.dev 10 hours ago
They were just a little wrong, “Flu shots give you a flu”.
There are 2 types of these shots essentially:
- the pathogen is put into some other thing that creates stuff that fights against said pathogen. That stuff is then extracted and given in the shot.
- the pathogen itself is processed and given to you. This causes your body to make stuff that fights against the pathogens. Your body then vaguely remembers how the pathogen felt and hence, increases the reaction your body does to any attack from a similar pathogen that comes the next time. This is the one corresponding to the above quote.
Of course, if your immune system is weak, the processed pathogen can be enough to give you quite a bit of a problem.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I know there are different types of vaccines, but really, experience should be enough to prove this assumption wrong many times over. I guess people just don’t get their flu shots…
echodot@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Well some shots do work like that. But you usually don’t get symptoms unless you are immunocompromised and it’s a live (but weakened) version of the virus.
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The “tongues have taste zones” thing is the only thing that comes to mind.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Also “the 5 senses”. It depends on how you define “sense” there’s at least a dozen to over 20.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Holy mackerel!
primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
The constitution of the united States.
ghen@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
The fact that we thought Pluto was a planet seemed absolutely insane at the time but none of the kids could question the adult in the room when the stupid rock is literally not even staying in its own lane
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
It doesn’t help that planet has such an incredibly vague definition. Earth is a planet but so is Jupiter but other than being spherical they don’t have anything in common. In terms of similarities, Pluto is much more like Earth then Jupiter is like Earth, at least Pluto has a solid surface.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
It’s not vague at all. It’s a classification that needs to meet three criteria. The lack of this classification is why it was taught that pluto was a planet, but once these things were formalized in 2006 it became clear that pluto no longer met the criteria.
fodor@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
That’s a definitional question, though, is it not? I don’t think any facts actually changed.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Yes. Ceres was considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and around the 1950s began to be classified as an asteroid. It is now considered a dwarf planet like Pluto. It’s the largest thing in the asteroid belt but is still sort of planet shaped.
ghen@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Okay then maybe the electron shells model of an atom. That was taught as fact and it’s definitely not true even though it’s still useful
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I didn’t graduate highschool though
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 21 hours ago
I went through the two websites posted here for graduation year 2008. The only incorrect thing I was taught that I still believed was:
“Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn”
False. Huh.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
I just picked up a book on this! There is, of course, an incredibly racist history to the use of these concepts.
multifariace@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Those were disproven long before then. They are interesting to think about as different sensory inputs to engage, but are complete nonsense as far as learning styles.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
…So what learning styles are there?
echodot@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
My brother had to do that for the military at one point. I don’t know what the point was because apparently nothing ever came of it they just did the tests got their results and then apparently everyone forgot about it, because everyone carried on getting trained in exactly the same manner anyway.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Oh yeah it never was applied. I just remember one of my high school English (Language Arts) teachers talking about it.
qaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 day ago
qaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m sorry, I forgot to test this on mobile after making some changes
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There needs to be something about so-called “junk DNA” added to this.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can’t say I’ve ever heard the one about classical music making people “smarter”, but it would not surprise me if some music is simply more distracting than others. Most classical music is inoffensive enough to the ears that it’s ok to use as background noise, and the lack of lyrics doesn’t distract language processing.
What I’d be more curious about though is if there is any significant impact to quality of work during tests/study time/reading time with background noise like classical music versus just having dead silence.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 1 day ago
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Most of what I learned about genetics is incorrect as when I graduated we thought DNA ran the show.
We were also wrong about why the USSR fell (not a huge surprise)
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why did we think think the USSR fell? Also DNA does run the show…damn, my genetics knowledge is shit. Apparently we graduated the same year 🤣
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I graduated when people accepted Gaidar’s propositions whole cloth and now we blame Gorbachev a lot more than we did in 2000
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Why did we think think the USSR fell?
The most common belief was that it fell because Ronald Reagan ordered Gorbachev to “tear down that wall”.
Overshoot2648@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
Fruit and vegetables being separate categories: Fruits are actually a type of vegetable. Additionally cucumbers are melons.
Cyan being a light blue: It is actually 50% green.
Simple machines are fundamental: They completely ignore compliant mechanisms and aren’t atomic. Actually atomic mechanisms would be defined by the type of force, the shape, and the compliance.
The only form of Socialism is Marxism and Communism and Capitalism means markets: Look up Mutualism or Syndicalism.
Basically everything with pop psychology.
I am sure there are more, but these were just top of my head.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
What high school did you go to that they were discussing Marxism and communism. Most schools don’t really get that advanced and don’t go much beyond teaching about the major wars.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
Soviet blocking brigades weren’t machine gun nests set up to mow down retreating soviet soldiers.
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago
Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
This is more like not being taught anything other than that they had “vomitoriums,” without being told what they were. Vomitoriums existed. They still exist, too. It just means a large opening or passageway. Like the entrance/exit to the colluseum.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
No, they literally taught that the romans feasted so much they had special rooms for vomiting in. One of my aunts was incredulous that it was no longer taught, and insisted she had been to rome and saw the vomitoria, and remains convinced that it’s just some new theory by some fringe historian.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Did they not teach that North Vietnam (and therefore the NVA) existed?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
Kind of. That’s not really reconciled with the a general impression that the US won every single battle, and couldn’t find any more enemies to fight, because the Vietnamese would run away and hide in the woods or among the locals and the US only lost the war at home.
recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
IQ tests!
They are standardized eugenics and should be rethought entirely
sleen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Also the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 day ago
I agree. A much better test is whether you wear a red MAGA cap.
RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In the US, Trump would demand this site be “de-woke-ified” to remove “conservative bias” by having any conservative fact disproven removed from results.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Arioxel@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Part of the reason Pluto’s classification hit so hard in the US is that it’s the only ‘planet’ ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.
(I copy-pasted this comment for the third time even though I don’t like to do that, but it’s important to know where does such reaction come from : partly from pure national pride)
Eq0@literature.cafe 13 hours ago
Interesting, because I saw a looot of Europeans being very emotionally involved in the topic!
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
That’s interesting because it’s completely bullshit.
Americans don’t know SHIT about that lol
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 day ago
Always a planet, fuck scienctists! (Seriously, nerdy chicks are hot, fuck them.")
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A dwarf planet is still a planet
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Average cluttered orbital neighborhood fan
Vs
Double dwarf planet Pluto - Charon system enjoyer
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The story of how North and South America were settled by the first humans. What I was taught was that the Bering Sea was frozen at the end of the last ice age, and then glaciers opened up and people migrated southward.
The problem is that the timing is too tight and the migration would have to have happened too quickly. Many native groups have long seen this story as flawed, as well.
This was covered in the book “1492”, and at the time of publication, researchers weren’t quite sure what model to replace it with. Probably some of the migration was using boats along the west coast rather than going over land. That book is getting pretty old now, though, and I’m not sure if or where things have settled out.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Racial supremacist preferred narratives favour suppressing evidence that Polynesians could navigate larger Pacific before Europeans could navigate Atlantic. But simply artifacts predate the “land bridge theory timing”
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Genetic evidence clearly shows native americans origins are from Siberian people. While there are evidence Polynesians made contact with them before europeans, native americans were already well established for tens of thousands of years before then.
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ill never accept that Pluto is not a planet! JUSTICE FOR PLUTO
Arioxel@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Fun fact :
Part of the reason Pluto’s classification hit so hard in the US is that it’s the only ‘planet’ ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I dunno. I’m American and knew that, didn’t care. My ire was simply having 4 decades under my belt of knowing Pluto as the 9th planet.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yes. The Pluto thing is a huge violation of the “rule of cool”.
If there are bigger rocks than Pluto in orbit, we should promote some cool new big space rocks to be new secret bonus planets!
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 day ago
🤏 small planet, hihi 🤏
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wash your chicken before cooking. Don’t do this, it just spreads salmonella all over your sink.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ideally you’d wash your sink too.
lath@piefed.social 1 day ago
Alphas.
White Jesus.
IQ.
9 out of 10 dentists.
Apple a day.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Feel like a lot of the “myths” are also just because you’re not going to teach a 16-year-old about quantum mechanics to explain why table salt exists
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Um…what’s it say about Tylenol?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The economy works and real estate is always a good investment. Also, the best thing that can happen to a nation is to be defeated by the US, because the US will then rebuild their infrastructure. The only example that teacher would cite was Japan.
Fm radio travels in waves while am radio travels in beams. This wasn’t a science teacher though. This was a media teacher’s wisdom.
audricd@piefed.social 1 day ago
They are two genders.
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 1 day ago
KETCHUP IS A VEGETABLE!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago
Every subject other than English and Math have tons of things that were wrong, misunderstood, or made up back when I was in school. 😩
GooseGang@beehaw.org 1 day ago
The food pyramid for sure. I’m not sure if it was taught outside the US
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Bears sleep for their entire hibernation and recycle their waste.
dankm@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I was taught that Canada has 10 provinces and two territories. That was proven false before I even graduated high school!
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I did too many drugs in high school. I don’t remember a lot.
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
And the website looks like it’s from the year you input
shplane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The US south treated their slaves well. Even in high school, I was like “mmmm you suuuure about that?”
TeddE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In the era, “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered good advice. If that’s how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah, think about how many men already get drunk and beat the shit out of their wives. The person they supposedly love the most.
Now imagine if they had a slave to take it out on instead.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
There’s actually a lot of scholarship about how Southern plantation owners developed their child rearing philosophy on a misunderstanding of the Roman patriarchy combined with their newfangled “scientific racism,” conflating the discipline expected for both children and slaves.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 day ago
I was fed the line that NORTHERNERS treated their slaves well.
ShieldsUp@startrek.website 1 day ago
I have been reading through this book on the matter: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist goodreads.com/…/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-…
The descriptions of violence toward slaves is heavily discussed and is quite eye-opening to me, since this is not the version I was taught in school!
nuggie_ss@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Compared to how other slaves were treated around the world, this is relatively true.