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Most Popular Myths In Science

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Queasy

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Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use

Purveyors of this urban legend call on a popular Seinfeld episode for support. It turns out there's truth behind the comedy: tests suggest ingesting just two poppy seed bagels may produce a positive result for opiates on a drug screen.
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heh
 
Until they come out with crack cocaine-laced bagels I will be so totally screwed on these drug tests....
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
so can i get high with poppy seed bagels?
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No, you can get just a high enough level of opiates to register on a drug screening. I would imaging to get high of poppy seed bagels, you would have to A LOT of them.
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: Citrix
so can i get high with poppy seed bagels?
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No, you can get just a high enough level of opiates to register on a drug screening. I would imaging to get high of poppy seed bagels, you would have to A LOT of them.
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You'd die first.
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: Citrix
so can i get high with poppy seed bagels?
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No, you can get just a high enough level of opiates to register on a drug screening. I would imaging to get high of poppy seed bagels, you would have to A LOT of them.
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What if you just ate the poppy seeds? like a pound of poppy seeds...I'm going to go try this. Wish me luck!
 
"I can hear 17,000Hz therefore my hearing is fine"

Well... maybe not the most popular myth, but amongst the most misleading. I'm seeing it everywhere ever since those goddamned digg articles started popping up.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Link - 20 total so click through to see them all
Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use

Purveyors of this urban legend call on a popular Seinfeld episode for support. It turns out there's truth behind the comedy: tests suggest ingesting just two poppy seed bagels may produce a positive result for opiates on a drug screen.
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heh
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That predates Seinfeld. We knew about it when they implemented mandatory drug testing for aviation pros. I think that was around 89?

 
That poppy seed thing really is not true any longer. Current extraction and derivatizing methods in addition to the instrument method eliminates a false positive that could arise from poppy seed consumption. With that being said, there is a slim chance of it being detected as a false positive in what is called in ELISA - an immunoassay - screening test. However under current drug testing guidelines, all samples that are tested as positive in an ELISA screen go through a GC/MS (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry) confirmation. At which point any potential false positives are eliminated.

So if you are using opiates and think you can use poppy seeds as an excuse, you are fooling yourself.

Just for the record I did "forensic toxicology" (i.e. piss testing) for approximately two years and have first hand experience extracting and analyzing samples for all of the common drugs of abuse including opiates.
 
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
"I can hear 17,000Hz therefore my hearing is fine"

Well... maybe not the most popular myth, but amongst the most misleading. I'm seeing it everywhere ever since those goddamned digg articles started popping up.
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Its only misleading. "Fine hearing" means different things to different people.

An 80 year old would have fine hearing if he could hear 120hz-8khz and no other frequency.

Fine hearing to a recording engineer would be quite different.
 
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
"I can hear 17,000Hz therefore my hearing is fine"

Well... maybe not the most popular myth, but amongst the most misleading. I'm seeing it everywhere ever since those goddamned digg articles started popping up.
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Its only misleading. "Fine hearing" means different things to different people.

An 80 year old would have fine hearing if he could hear 120hz-8khz and no other frequency.

Fine hearing to a recording engineer would be quite different.
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No. Nanostuff is frustrated because hearing loss, IIRC, often happens in the middle of our hearing range. However, people think that just because they can hear up to 17Khz, they do not suffer from any significant hearing damage (even though they could very well have hearing issues elsewhere in the FR).
 
A falling cat will always land on its feet
Studies have demonstrated that, when dropped from most heights, cats will land gracefully on their feet. Results change only with cats dropped upside-down from a height of one foot or less. We're not suggesting you try this at home.
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They actually tested that? 😕
 
Originally posted by: mugs
A falling cat will always land on its feet
Studies have demonstrated that, when dropped from most heights, cats will land gracefully on their feet. Results change only with cats dropped upside-down from a height of one foot or less. We're not suggesting you try this at home.
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They actually tested that? 😕
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Well Bob, she still lands on her feet from 10' up, lets skip 20' and try 30'.
 
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: her209
You can contract HIV/AIDS through anal sex.

<<< Really wants to know if this is true or not.
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Is it true or not?!
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YES... yes you can. if there is any breakage or tissue and infected fluids come in contact with blood, you can get it...
 
Originally posted by: LolaWiz
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: her209
You can contract HIV/AIDS through anal sex.

<<< Really wants to know if this is true or not.
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Is it true or not?!
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YES... yes you can. if there is any breakage or tissue and infected fluids come in contact with blood, you can get it...
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I think you guys need a sarcasm meter check. 😀
 
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