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Documented: London doctor struck off for inveigling Turkish peasants to donate a kidney. |
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Debunked: Dr. C. Drew, a plasma researcher; bleeds to death when hospital turns him (a black man) away. |
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Debunked: Flowers are bad in hospital rooms because they suck oxygen out of air. |
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Documented: (Wo)man takes huge quantity of baking soda as an antacid and ends up with CO2 rupturing stomach. |
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Impossible: Person's hair turns entirely white "overnight" from stress. |
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Documented: Some people sneeze when exposed to bright light ("photic sneeze effect"). |
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Debunked: You can catch diseases (crabs, lice, herpes, VD, etc) from public toilets. |
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Debunked: Coca-Cola is an effective contraceptive |
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Documented: Coke is acidic, dissolves teeth, etc |
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Debunked: Drinking large quantities of deionized/distilled water over a long period of time can screw you up due to ion imbalances. |
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Documented: Water can be toxic. |
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Impossible: Hair and nails continue to grow after death. |
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Debunked: Hair grows back thicker or faster if you shave it. |
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Unknown: A woman sees doctor with an irritated eye. She says a male stripper rubbed his pouch in her eye, or flung his G-string onto her face. The doctor examines her, and removes a louse from her eye (or face, or eyebrow). |
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Debunked: An autopsy reveals big hairballs in lungs of a man who breathed in bits of hair while he worked, and thus suffocated him. |
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Documented: Girl dies of big hairball in stomach from chewing on ends of her braids. |
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Debunked: B.F. Skinner's daughter died/committed suicide/sued because of she was reared in a Skinner box/special crib. |
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Debunked: Left-handed people have shorter life spans than righties. |
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Debunked: Women/people shouldn't sit on cold cement or metal 'cause it might hurt their plumbing or cause piles. |
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Debunked: You can catch a cold by being chilled. |
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Documented: There're all sorts of rumors about the AIDS virus being developed by various institutions. |
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Unknowable: Guillotined persons may remain conscious long enough to blink. |
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Debunked: Knuckle cracking will lead to arthritis. |
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In Dispute: It may damage your hand in other ways, though. |
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Debunked: Drunks are more relaxed, less likely to be hurt in car accidents. |
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Debunked: A series of hospital deaths was due to a janitor who unplugged life- support systems to plug in a floor polisher. |
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Debunked: Dr. C. Drew, a plasma researcher; bleeds to death when hospital turns him (a black man) away. |
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Documented: Corn chips can damage the esophagus |
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In Dispute: Supercooled Siberian vodka causes instant death when overeager drinker takes a slug. |
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Debunked: Asbestos is added to tampons to force women to use more, thus increasing the rate of cervical cancer. |
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Debunked: Soda cans are frequently coated with rat urine, which is deadly to humans |
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Debunked: Shock-rocker has ribs removed so he can perform autofellatio |
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Debunked: 19th century women wore corsets so tight their internal organs were deformed. |
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In Dispute: People have had their ribs removed to make their waist look smaller. |
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Documented: Student lives on Kraft dinner, gets scurvy |
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In Dispute: Women in close proximity synchronise periods |
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Documented: Maggots and leeches are still used in modern medicine |
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Debunked: Mountain Dew makes you less of a man; Diet Dew pickles you in formaldehyde. |
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Debunked: Eye contact with waterproof sunscreen causes blindness. |
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Impossible: Baby eats dog food after meal of Enfalac formula, stomach explodes. |
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Documented: Pacemakers can explode when burned; they must be removed before cremation. |
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In Dispute: Nuclear-powered pacemakers are especially dangerous in a cremation explosion because of the risk of radioactive fallout. |
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Impossible: "Innocent" man is repeatedly arrested for drunkenness, but claims not to drink; turns out he has a "mutant yeast" in his stomach which ferments ingested carbohydrates into alcohol. |
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In Dispute: Coughing forcefully may save your life if you're alone and having a heart attack. |
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In Dispute: Red cordial (ObTWIAVBP: non-carbonated fruit-flavoured drink concentrate) can prevent traveller's diarrhoea. |
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Documented: Women should wear a wetsuit when waterskiing/watersliding, to avoid mysterious and unpleasant injuries to their reproductive organs. |
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Impossible: Little bubbles of air in an injection syringe or IV can kill you. |
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Documented: A patient's intestine explodes from cauterization during surgery due to gas; A patient's intestine exploded during a colotomy. |
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Debunked: Cats shouldn't be allowed near newbor babies, as the cat will "steal the baby's breath". |
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In Dispute: There have been isolated reports of babies being smothered by cats. These reports have been disputed by some. |
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Unknown: Girl replaces her own urine with secreted boyfriend's urine at "abortion mill," is declared pregnant and advised to abort. |
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T: There are many stories about musicians and bands, especially after they die or are dead. Most aren't very interesting or novel. |
