Comments on: Study Debunks Conventional Wisdom

CBS Evening News: New Evidence Suggests Age-Old Truisms Not Necessarily So True

[spadeisspade]

My mom would never let me drink coffee when I was a kid, saying "It will stunt your growth". I always found that to be a quite adorable truism.

[comeon11]

roger2123.....................God .

[tmn]

"I am told if you are a soldier on duty in Iraq for 14 continuous months and come home to find your wife six months pregnant, it''''s ain''''t immaculate conception. Is that true?"
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This is HALF-true...the conception part.

[puzzler125]

NEVER put butter on a burn (true). If you bite your nails a hand will grow in your stomach (false). If you pull out a grey hair two will grow in its place (false). What about swimming immediately after eating? I don''t know if it''s dangerous actually but I''ve done it and didn''t feel so hot (full stomach).

[pbkster]

If you have brown marks in your underwear it IS your fault not asphalt.

[pbkster]

If a man says something in the woods and nobody''s around to hear it is he still wrong

[wl7bzh]

Is that true?

Posted by roger2123 at 07:51 PM : Dec 18, 2008

No, that is slanderous. Someone saying that about the soldier obviously has it in for him.

[wl7bzh]

How bout the one that women should be obscene and not heard?

[wl7bzh]

How the one about matriculation causing blindness?

[wl7bzh]

How bout the old myth that if your great grandparents did not have children than more than likely you won''t either?

[stgenesius]

But, and I can''t stress this enough, running with sissors CAN be dangerous.

[rwsmith29456]

I have done a study in my home that says sugar and caffeine are a deadly combination. Any of these myth busters are welcome to come to my home to see if it''s all in my head.