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Fact Or Fake: How Easily Are You Fooled?

Brain scans, medical histories and simple logic show this is nonsense: our brains are complex and mysterious, but this doesn't mean they are largely unused.

Myth busted!

There are about 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules in one cubic inch of water: trillions of times more than the stars in our galaxy, which at most number around 400,000,000,000.

Amazing but true!

There are more molecules in a glass of water than stars in the galaxy

The seasons are caused by the fact that the Earth its tilted on its axis: when it's winter in one hemisphere, it's summer in the other, and vice versa.

Myth Busted!

Earth is closer to the sun in summer than winter

Although the fruit in the garden of Eden is often depicted as an apple, the Bible itself only calls it a "fruit" without specifying which type.

Truly true!

Apples aren't mentioned in the book of Genesis

Paracetamol is one of a number of common drugs whose mechanisms of action are not fully understood

Truth!

Nobody knows exactly why paracetamol works

We used to think this was true - but when the New Horizons mission flew close to Pluto in 2015, a more accurate measurement showed the planet was larger than previously thought, putting it ahead of Russia!

No longer true!

Russia is larger than the surface area of Pluto

Although this claim is commonly made, there is no evidence to support it - although you should avoid alcohol before going for a swim.

No evidence!

Eating before swimming causes stomach cramps

In terms of sheer numbers, there are many more bacterial cells in your body than your own, human cells: ten times as many

Only too true!

There are more bacterial cells in your body than human

Oh dear. Did you know the word "gullible" was recently removed from all dictionaries? #TalkCriticalThinking

Factual failure

Not exactly accurate, but no more wrong than a flipped coin. #TalkCriticalThinking

Kinda truthy

It takes a good fake to fool you. #TalkCriticalThinking

Hard to fool

Top marks! There's no fooling you. Great job! #TalkCriticalThinking

Truth warrior

Want to find out more? Check out my book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Critical-Thinking-Effective-Successful-Independent/dp/1473947146" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Critical Thinking</a> in all its glory!

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Fact Or Fake: How Easily Are You Fooled?

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