Strange Beliefs

All of the "healer" nonsense is bizarre in the sense that people think that there's magic that defies science. I had no idea until recently how prevalent it still is in Ireland and there seems to be a local magic healer in most areas! Even more strange when you consider that it's usually devote Catholics that believe in it yet its more akin to tribal medicine men and Shamanic beliefs.

Driving a particular type of car will change the weather.

Sticking 50 cent of carbon tax on a litre of petrol will mean no storms next winter.

Tbh in cases like that people are carrying on a folk tradition without necessarily taking it literally. Its largely harmless. There's a big difference between that and people who convince themselves that some celebrity is an alien from outer space involved in harvesting children's foreskins as part of Beelzebubs plan to take over the world.

Users, on boards, believing that a talent agency is paying people to post in the ‘Radio Forum’.

2 posts is all it took for anti-trans rubbish to appear on an AH post. Just need to wait for people to complain about social welfare recipients and travellers to get the trifecta…

I can't believe it was so quick to descend into transphobia and climate change scepticism! Now I'm just waiting for the holy Boards trinity of using random threads for immigration bashing! It's killing Boards at this stage!

That any criticism, however mild, of one's favorite, fashionable, topic-du-jour amounts to a phobia or -ism.

yeah i do one or two NYE traditions that my family did when i was younger purely for the sake of it, i dont believe doing them/not doing them will actually change anything.

my partner is from south america and they also have a load of things to do on NYE, dont think they actually believe in them either but just want to keep some of the tradition going

apparently the placebo effect can also work even when you know you're taking a placebo (it's an example in a book by Ben Goldacre, 'Bad Science'). Get your head around that one…..

Saying someone has made a claim is not the same as making that claim.

Nope, they've just said it will stop the Maldives and Bangladesh from being flooded.

People in northern Europe adhering to a sandy death cult that originated over 5000 miles away in the middle east that basically worships a vengeful murderous wrath filled demonic entity, but this yoke "loves" everybody too.