Scientific misconceptions Puns

Hi r/depressionregimens! I'm a mental health researcher and lately I've been analyzing this dataset called the UK Biobank. It's pretty awesome because it has mental health questionnaires, genetics, brain MRIs, blood tests, etc. on tens of thousands of people. It's a great sandbox for studying questions about mental illness that are just a little bit unorthodox, in a way that (if you're lucky) will persuade psychiatrists to actually run a clinical trial to confirm the patterns you find.

So my question is, what hypotheses do you think I should test? In particular, what's a misconception that you think most psychiatrists have about depression? Not a bad experience you had with a psychiatrist once – things like fundamental misunderstandings about what depression is as an illness, how it's classified or how it's treated, misconceptions that you see over and over again across different psychiatrists that you've interacted with, and that may have impacted your care.

1. The Frog That Let Itself Boil To Death Had No Brain
2. We Think Oil Is Made Of Dinosaurs Because Of An Ad Campaign
3. Black Widows (generally) Don't Eat Their Mates
4. Cutting Open Only Poor People Was A Bad Idea
5. We Think Neanderthals Are Hunched Because The Very First One We Found Was

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She told me I'm too young (I'm 15), that it's a medical condition, that quite a few people my age experience this and that it'll just pass in a few years, probably. Or something like that.

Are there any actually scientific sources I can use to tell her she's wrong? I'm sure she is, but she claims it to be her field of knowledge – it kind of is, I guess – and so I can't really say anything without giving reliable sources.

I'm pretty down right now because whereas she didn't deny me not feeling sexual attraction she denies how I describe it, how it is usually described. "But not in my age group", according to her :/

Can't remember his name or books but he wrote one or two books about scientific myths and misconceptions that were very well backed up with evidence and were well received until he wrote one about weed also backed up by sources which was heavily criticized by some.

I remember a few years ago a tread on reddit mentioning it and sparking a debate about how the previous books were very well accepted because they were about loosely held beliefs while the last was not as well received because it was about stronger held beliefs about marijuana, I don't know if the associations were made by reddit or the author.

I had a meeting scheduled with a scientist who specializes in infectious diseases. When he arrived, his voice was hoarse and he was congested. He explained that he was out sick with the flu, and today was his first day back in the office. He advised me that he was recovering, and although he has symptoms, he is no longer contagious. For a moment my brain broke. Did I just hear that correctly? Am I really being informed by an expert that “a person is not contagious because they are recovering”? This isn’t the first time I have heard this misconception. While someone might be less contagious than they were the day prior, they are still contagious. I politely asked him to leave, and we had the meeting by phone.

I’m realized that sometimes as professional in our fields, we all fall victim to these kinds of misperceptions. Have you observed something like this? Please share.

>The belief that paper is better than plastic is not based on science or fact. It is based on misconceptions about how plastic bags are made, how landfills work, the incidence of plastic litter, and that non-biodegrading products are bad for the planet.

Scientists invented plastic bags because paper bags are bad for environment and too many trees get cut down in 1970s. Now suddenly plastic bags are worse even thought they require way more resources and even if there is no proof that paper bags are better for environment? Just because it sounds better? did anybody actually checked the facts?

http://www.allaboutbags.ca/papervplastic.html

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Anything from vaccines and Autism to the amount of shells an atom has.

Example: Human blood is blue until oxygenated, vaccines cause autism, etc.