Asklemmy

5G, Vaccines, MSG, WiFi, Socialized Medicine, Jews.

Video games. There’s absolutely no evidence that they make people more violent.

Nuclear power in general.

Socialism.

MSG. People will swear it gives them all manner of ailments

LGBTQ people and drag queens.

Spiders.

Even black widows basically have to be harassed into biting.

People who are dependent on opiates and opioids.

Some people who are in a lot of pain legitimately need the medicine in order to have a normal life. It doesn't make us high, it makes us 'normal' because we actually require the medicine to bring us to normal levels of activity.

Just because someone is physically dependent on the medicine, does not make them an addict too

Most of us would rather never take another pill in our lives if we were suddenly healed.

Muslims.

The Tor Browser, it's just a normal Browser with some functionality to improve privacy.

Most US cities are not as dangerous as the news makes them out to be.

ITT: people that don't know what completely harmless means

Staying in hostels when traveling overseas. The amount of people who tell me I'm crazy and going to get murdered if I stay in a hostel is ridiculous.

Hostels are great, and not any more dangerous than hotels are, you just have to look at reviews and go for the type you want. You can also rent private rooms at a lot of them. I always stay at one's with a kitchen so I can save a bunch on food, too.

In South Korea most fans have timers so they're not left on overnight, because people think it'll kill you if you do leave it on.
This belief wasn't helped by medical examiners putting "death by fan" on the death certificates of suicide victims to help the dead save face and spare the families the embarrassment of a "cowardly death" for a few decades.

The dark. Everything seems more scary in the dark

Australia. Maybe not completely harmless, but far less dangerous than non-Australians make it out to be.

Jet fuel.

People seem to have the impression that it's some extremely explosive stuff that has to be handled with the upmost care, but it's just highly refined kerosene. It can be used as a replacement for Diesel fuel in many cases - in fact, U.S. military vehicles can run off either. We put it Toyota Hylux pickups up in northern Greenland because it doesn't gel up like Diesel fuel.

Living near a nuclear plant.

Little do they know, that they get more than 50x more radiation effect from the natural surroundings and the rocks in earth than from the nuclear plant 🤭 And our body is really capable of dealing with that since the beginning of our evolution (DNA repairs and co).

https://pages.vassar.edu/ltt/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-21-at-1.18.09-AM1.png

here is a chart showing radiation intensities for various sources of radiation

For my country (Germany): Catching a draft. Basically people believe that a light breeze from an open window will make you ill.

Wild strawberries. As far as I know there are no wild strawberries that are poisonous. There are two types, wild strawberries that resemble normal strawberries but smaller, which taste delicious, and mock strawberries, which taste like water but are also safe to eat. Mock strawberries can be recognized as growing upward and having protruding red seeds.

Cellphones in a gas station. Also double dipping in a sauce or dip.

Vaccinations!

Swimming around in a spent nuclear fuel pool: https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/