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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The dumbest shit I've heard throughout my year was at uni, from a physics professor, no less. He, with a straight face, was telling us that highlanders live longer because oxygen content is lower at high altitudes, and since oxygen is an oxidant, it makes people corrode away(??) faster and causes aging.

He was also a Chudinist, which is pseudo-science about searching the words RUS and names of old pagan gods in random, sometimes absolutely ridiculous places, like freshly crumpled A4 sheet or on the surface of the sun, and claiming it to be a sign of existence of greater ancient slavic race.

I once got into an argument with him because he was claiming that lifting an item in hands takes constant amount of energy, no matter how fast you do it. So I challenged him to a 5 minute plank... and he kicked me out from the class. But I didn't care, as I soon flunked out of that uni because he wasn't even the most schizo prof over there.

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[-] confuser@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago

I sent the Twitter image to chatgpt to convert the image to text and then I put that text into websim which generated a website that does exactly that and it even handles if you graduated recently and it will link you to a timeline of debunked "facts" here's the link, enjoy! https://websim.ai/c/GeEMLk9DuUC23jV9S

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I got: "We only use 10% of our brains. Modern neuroimaging has shown that we use most of our brain." In the 90's I thought this was not in fact, but urban legend, the whole time.

Also: "Christopher Columbus discovered America. Indigenous peoples had been living in the Americas for thousands of years before Columbus arrived." I didn't realize that it was implied no one was here when he came.

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

So many would say "Pluto" and I would cry.

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago
[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

This assumes that your teachers were up to date

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