Things you believe in despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

there are going to be some very angry scientists on this thread very soon

not me. I'm enjoying the crazy.

Mixing your drinks = terrible hangover

I think this observation is founded on a contingent factor, since people who mix different drinks are often people who run out of whatever they started out drinking, but keep on by drinking whatever else is available to them until they run out of every kind of alcohol they can lay their hands on. Hangovers often ensue.

This was basically Kingsley Amis's explanation as well, and I give it a lot of weight since he drank a bit.

I still wonder if a Planet X is out there, in some extremely elliptical orbit... but after like 50 years with pretty good technology/scopes/people actively searching and it hasn't showed up so it's probably not out there.

Also I refuse to disbelieve in the possibility of faster-than-light travel! I mean, like wormholes and warp drives and stuff. I understand why things that have mass can't even reach the speed of light let alone surpass it.

We have this book called 'BIRTHDAYS' which maps everyone to a very specific set of traits based on their birthday

You should do a thread where you tell us what it says based on our birthday!

^^^ cosigned!

Sunkist has caffeine in it, and Sunkist is what I think of when I think of orange pop. So chalk one up for "your parents" here.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, April 2, 2011 1:43 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

holy shit! it fuckin does! i just checked my bottle of diet sunkist and there's caffeine in that fucker!! they should really have that more prominently on the gd label

The full moon thing i pretty much believe. The night of the supermoon everyone i was with went completely nuts, including myself.

I didn't hear the phrase "supermoon" until two days afterwards and had a totally mild night

Also the way in which people's behaviour falls into their astrological sign is frequently spooky (although I don't know whether I ~believe~ that one).

whenever I have asked anyone who ~believes~ in astrological signs to tell me what sign I am, based on my personality traits, they have totally got it within five to nine guesses

that would sway me

i dont believe in or know anything about astrology, but at the same time i do totally ~fit my sign~

orange soda update: at the grocery store today i noticed that diet crush has sugar in it!!! wtf. that leaves only fanta zero and offbrand for my diet orange soda needs. read your labels folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am all over that full moon thing, having seen loads and loads and loads of people go immensely troppo right on a full moon. If the moon can affect tides and we have water in our brains then surely it has the capacity to affect the water in our brains. I AM A SCIENTIST.

OTM. Totally buy the moon thing. A friend who was a bartender used to say people would just go nuts and I've observed similar.

Am absolutely nothing like what I'm supposed to be like according to my sign and don't really believe astrology at all. People I've told that who are way into it have said I need a full reading or something but idk.

The full moon = more lunacy connection does have some corroborating evidence beyond just anecdotes. Statistically, police arrests predictably increase on full moon nights. This is verifiable data, but it doesn't prove causation, only a strong correlation that suggests a causal link.

I think people see a full moon and figure they've got license to act out a little bit.

I'd be willing to accept that plays into it somehow.

would like to see data for cloudy vs. clear full moon nights

xp Which is odd, because street lighting has the exact opposite effect.

totally believe that full moons cause werewolves

Also, I'd be careful about relying on data from cops, because there are a lot of superstitious cops. A lot.

Anyway, I've never been able to shake the feeling that Reagan had dementia a lot longer than is currently accepted.

(I mean, had it longer before what is currently accepted.)

Maybe the cops are the ones suffering lunacy during full moons and therefore arrest more ppl.

1. Sunkist didn't have caffeine in it until I was about 15 or 16.
2. Cold temperatures produce cold-like symptoms, as in, symptoms of the virus.

i still believe in the existence of "clutch hitters"

yeah that whole thing recently about how the parameters were wrong and you are probably a different sign was weird b/c I am totally Scorpio, even though my TRUE sign, now, is Virgo

FWIW that wasnt actually true. The signs have not changed, it was misinformation spread by a ranty skeptic astrology hater dude.

Not that I believe in astrology, but neither did the signs "change".

If we stop believing in Tinkerbelle, she will die. I swear it.

I find it really amusing that astrology is so solid that one over publicized guy can make tons of people question their pseudo-beliefs. Say something like that about actual religion and people would be up in arms.

I like to think that if I concentrate, I will know what I need to eat to have balanced nutrition. Like, my body will make me hungry for broccoli if I lack iron or something.

that line of thinking led to a pint of peanut butter fudge swirl ice cream today

I like to think that if I concentrate, I will know what I need to eat to have balanced nutrition.

Heh. On a similar tip, I like to think that the cravings I have are my body flagging a need for a certain mineral/vitamin/trace element. And its not like I crave ice cream and chips, I'll get WEIRD random cravings for broccoli or sardines or V8 juice or something.

2. Cold temperatures produce cold-like symptoms, as in, symptoms of the virus.

yeah, but are people really so dumb that they can't distinguish between a runny nose caused by cold weather and a runny nose caused by an actual illness?

(answer: yes)

if you stay out in the cold long enough to get pneumonia, your immune system is definitely going to suffer. but a few minutes in 30°F weather isn't going to do it, and frostbite is a more immediate concern than the possibility of coming down with the sniffles.

MERCURY IN RETROGRADE

that drinking water with your ears plugged cures hiccups

I don't know about that but drinking water without taking a breat and taking as many sips as poss before you have to breathe actually does cure mine every single time.

whenever i get hiccups (which is thankfully not often because i hate them) i spend the whole episode wondering if i'm going to be one of those poor hiccup people who can never stop hiccupping, year after year.

That happened to my mom's uncle and so the thought of it scares me to death. He had them for like 7 years or something until he died of something totally unrelated.

sometimes i complicate my wondering by wondering if worrying about it might perversely bring on the condition so then i try not to think about it but i still do.

lol same - it's very stressful!

rip poor uncle hic.

i was not scared of this phenomenon until now.

hiccup runneth over

i wasn't scared of it either before i heard of it and then when i did i decried it by saying wtf and whatnot but my criticism was to no avail, it didn't help sufferers one bit.

if you shouted WTF very loudly behind them, perhaps?

Though it would probably just add nerve problems to an already tough situation

If the moon can affect tides and we have water in our brains then surely it has the capacity to affect the water in our brains.

Uh guys the gravitational attraction between the moon and your brain, even at the moon's closest approach, is less than that between your brain and the chair you're sitting in. Gravitational force is a function of mass. The moon weighs about 7.35 x 10^22 kg. The ocean weighs about 1.4 x 10^21 kg. Your brain weighs about 1,400 g.

LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA

so full moon madness has something to do with bigger chairs?

Pictured: The full moon effect

http://therearehymnsweshout.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/edith_ann.jpg?w=300&h=365

*hic*

This thread is infuriating. That is all, carry on.

i think some of youse are looking for the thread where we believe in stuff fully supported by science

When I was an early adolescent, I used to believe that girls would deeply know if I had ... impure ... thoughts about them. Not as in: "he likes me, and he's unsubtle," but the actual content and/or narrative of the fantasies I had imagined. Poor, poor Jazmine D.;

I also imagined it was possible to share dreams; to meet up and hang out with other people in your sleep.

xp: That tangentially reminds me of how I used to think (ca. 5th grade) that teachers could tell if I had done my homework that morning, as opposed to the night before when it should have been done. I imagined that they had equipment that could determine how recently the pencil marks had been made, or whatever. I have somewhat of a history with giving authority figures entirely too much credit for their technological sleuthing abilities.