Medical Scientific Urban Legends

Academic urban legends - PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232290/

Urban legends are not just fascinating, entertaining, and colorful stories; they are also a part of our social communicative repertoire. When we lose them, we have to find other things …

7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked

https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2019/10/7-scientific-urban-legends-debunked/

If a large number of people believe something, that doesn’t make it true. Dr. Joe Hanson of the It’s OK to Be Smart …

10 Urban Medical Legends: True or False? - Wonderslist

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This is largely because of the effort to find cures for the incurable diseases, the fear in their mind about new, more complex ones and the ignorance about the new products that hit …

Medical Myths: When Urban Legends Kill …

https://www.livescience.com/26108-medical-urban-legends-kill.html

Myths and urban legends not only keep many from getting vaccines and medical help, but they can also decrease …

25 Medical Myths That Just Won't Go Away | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/36100-10-medical-myths.html

Medical Urban Legends: Fact or Fiction? - TheStreet

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As far as medical science has progressed, there’s still plenty of misinformation floating around out there. While the Internet has made it easier to get to …

The Golden Hour: Scientific Fact or Medical â Urban …

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb00201.x

The Golden Hour: Scientific Fact or Medical ‘‘Urban Legend’’? E. BROOKE LERNER, MS, EMT-P, RONALD M. MOSCATI,MD Abstract. The term ‘‘golden hour’’is commonly …

The golden hour: scientific fact or medical "urban legend"?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11435197/

The golden hour: scientific fact or medical "urban legend"? The term "golden hour" is commonly used to characterize the urgent need for the care of trauma patients. This term …

5 Medical Urban Legends (That Actually …

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There's always some far-fetched medical drama, like a once dead lover ends up being totally alive, somebody turns out to be their own twin, or a character falls into a coma despite absolutely …

Scientific Urban Legends | Watts Up With …

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/11/scientific-urban-legends/

These include things like the idea that rising seas will drown atolls, when Darwin showed 150 years ago that rising seas create atolls. Another scientific urban legend is the claim that we’re …