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If I step on a crack, I'll break my Mama's back.

All men are equal

Do NOT say the "Q" word at work. It's the one that is a synonym for silent. I will in fact beat you when it hits the fan.

Eating boogers strengthens your immune system.

I mean, it's plausible, because the idea of building your immune system is exposure to some of those things. Not trying to invalidate the other methods because those should be a better alternative. Some studies suggested boogers can help.

I fully understand that it's correlation, not causation, but I believe some inanimate objects want to work well, and others want to work poorly. In that same vein, there are people that inanimate objects respect and work well for, and there are people that inanimate objects dislike or enjoy aggravating.

Just psychological failings, self-confidence issues and such I know are wrong. Firmly held, but wrong.

…Otherwise it feels like an oxymoron.

Digital/no pressure buttons are completely unreliable when used to control a physical thing.

Not answering directly the post, but something in line with it: I believe not all (maybe most of) knowledge is scientific, but that doesn't invalidate it. A lot of things can't be studied by the scientific method, but people intuitively understood and learned about it along the centuries.

This should be common sense, but society has gone crazy about considering only science as knowledge and now ignores valuable learnings that sometimes are more right then science itself.

This should not be confused with negating science (like global warming deniers): when you can study something by the scientific method normally you will get deeper and with less mistakes with it. But when you don't, you can still have knowledge by other methods

When I drop something on the floor and then blow on it in short soft bursts, it's suddenly clean enough to consume.

I can tell American society is getting exponentially more stupid by how many more cheeky vanity license plates I see as time goes on.

The soul is a thing, and it's what gives you consciousness

Hopefully none. I do hold some that you could call a-scientific, or something, because existing science has no impact either way. Like what kinds of foods are good or bad. Or morality.

Demons are real - negative entities that attach to humans and feed off misery, pleasure, and anger.

I am convinced that I will come down with cold/flu if I breath too much cold air. When I walk in the cold, I always wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. If I don't, the cold air will give me a sore throat. That sore throat will act as a Petri dish for illness to develop and spread into my lungs or nose.

I know plenty of medical professionals and all of them tell me that that is not how it works, but I have a datum of proof. In my first year of university, I had a nasty, persistent respiratory infection during the late fall/early winter. To keep my throat warm while it was recovering, I started wearing a scarf and my illness went away quickly. After that, I started wrapping up whenever I was walking to class in the cold and never got sick again.

I am now used to wrapping my face in the cold and feel wrong without it. When I don't, it seems like I am more likely to come home with a scratchy throat. I can definitely say that many of my flus start in the throat (though it could just be that the first flu symptom I tend to notice is the sore throat).