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Coming up soon in this series: - Ben Shapiro was not the secret 7th member of Monty Python - wildebeest did not solve Fermat's Last Theorem - Joey from New K
by Doctor_Fegg 5y ago
Coming up soon in this series:
- Ben Shapiro was not the secret 7th member of Monty Python
- wildebeest did not solve Fermat's Last Theorem
- Joey from New Kids on the Block is not the real author of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
- antod 5y agoYeah right, what's next? The author of the site isn't actually a ninja?
- st_goliath 5y agoUp next: just like .org domains, you can just buy a lab coat and a clip board.
- chki 5y agohttps://xkcd.com/699/ https://xkcd.com/699/
- lolinder 5y agoYou joke, but I was told this myth about .org multiple times over my education by multiple teachers, including in college. It might be terribly obvious to you, but there are hundreds of thousands of teachers who teach this wrong.
- lucideer 5y agoTrue, but I think "org, specifically, is not credible" is the wrong counter to people teaching that "org, specifically, is credible". The appropriate counter is: "learn to think critically"; replacing one narrow blindly-followed fallacy with another isn't progress. Credibility cannot be inferred from tlds.
- hoten 5y agoI agree, but felt like confirming it anecdotally. I asked my two sisters, in their 20s (not in tech): they both had this misconception from school. A friend (not in tech) did too, but only until he tried registering a domain of his own and saw he could get .org. My mother (also not tech savvy) trusts .gov more than .edu or .org, but didn't realize that anyone can purchase the latter ones. I asked her why she trusted .gov over the others, she paused and laughed as she said "well the government wouldn't lie to you!" :)