Factual Errors: WTB Basic Facts June 11
These are referenced by wikipedia and include additional comments by me.
- At the beginning of the movie, it is stated that humans only use 10% of their brains. This is an old self-help claim devised for marketing. You are only using 10%, we can get you to 50%! 100%! Almost all of the brain is being used in some fashion all the time. There are ZERO statistics supporting this claim.
- The movie states humans are “90% water” when in fact newborns have around 78% body water, 1-year-olds around 65%, adult men about 60%, and adult women around 55%. If they are trying to come off as scientific, why would they get such a simple to find fact wrong? Well, it does help serve their purpose when they are talking about thoughts affecting water crystals, if they’ve got you thinking that you are practically a big water crystal…
- The movie relates a story about Native Americans being unable to see Christopher Columbus’ ships. However, there is no mention of this in any of the journals of those voyages, and the oral traditions of the local population were lost in the following 150 years of Spanish rule. Totally fabricated.
- It is also claimed in the movie that 20 amino acids are created in the human body. However, only 12 can be synthesized by humans; the remaining 8 amino acids are essential and must be acquired through food consumption or dietary supplementation.
Do you really want to accept their “science” when they can’t even get facts straight that could be found within a few clicks on google or in the pages of elementary school science books?
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