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978-1-9821-0366-8. Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence is a 2019 book by Alex Berenson. In it, Berenson makes claims that cannabis use directly causes psychosis and violence, claims denounced as alarmist and inaccurate by many in the scientific and medical communities. The scientists state that Berenson is ...
Illusory truth effect. The illusory truth effect (also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. [1] This phenomenon was first identified in a 1977 study at Villanova University and Temple University.
Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. These entries are concise summaries; the main subject articles can be consulted for more detail.
Like many teachers, she says phones aren’t the only problem. There’s also the earbud issue. “Forty percent of my students have at least one earbud in when they walk into class,” Black said.
Litter boxes in schools hoax. Starting in 2021, a rumor alleged that certain North American schools were providing litter boxes in bathrooms for students who "identify as cats", or who participate in the furry or otherkin subcultures. Various American conservative and right-wing politicians and media personalities promoted the hoax in response ...
But Somich says you don’t have to praise your appearance to make a positive impact on your kids. “Parents can use positive or neutral language, avoiding negative or shameful body-focused ...
Social media accounts for $15.5 billion in lost work production. It makes workers 13% less productive and imperils jobs altogether, as bosses pay increasing attention to the things workers say ...
Brandolini's law. Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states: