Friday at work I overheard my coworker telling someone one the phone that they should never drink distilled water. He claimed it leaches minerals from your body.
Bwuh? So, I went searching on the internet for this dangerous substance, and found some cites saying it was not true.
I then overheard him say that it dehydrates you because t has an extra oxygen molecule in it. So I IM’ed him the cited.
It was quite satisfying to hear him say “uh, I guess I was wrong, it looks like I had some bad information.”
Wow! Somebody made an erroneous assertion and backed down unequivocally (sounded like) when contradicted with a cite! We need more of these, to counteract the somewhat depressing Most Ignorant Thing You’ve Ever Heard thread.
Can I take a few tips from you? Because I tried to dispel a co-worker’s notion that if you swallow gum it stays in your digestive system for seven years - and she still didn’t believe me.
Co-worker, flapping her hand around dismissively: “Did you read that on the Internet? Yeah, we should believe everything we read on there.”