Medical Myths
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Myth and superstition play a huge role in our daily lives and this is a big part of all cultures. Many people carry good luck charms, seek fortune tellers, and even look to the stars for guidance.
Do these things help? Are we doing them because the generations before us told us to do it? Is it tradition?
We have many modern-day myths and cultural beliefs that really don't have a basis, but there's a lot of that in medicine too.
In this episode of the Medgeeks podcast, we'll be discussing some of the most common medical myths today.
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| 0:00.0 | Myth in superstition play a huge role in our daily lives and is a big part of all cultures. |
| 0:05.6 | Many people carry good luck charms, seek fortune tellers, and even look to the stars for guidance. |
| 0:11.3 | I don't mean 1-800 numbers that have fortune tellers, nor do I mean people |
| 0:15.4 | look to Kim Kardashian for advice. Both of those ideas are disastrous. What I mean is that they look |
| 0:21.4 | to astrologers and numerologists. |
| 0:24.0 | Alleged followers of many myths have included famous actresses like Sarah Jessica Parker |
| 0:29.0 | or even presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, |
| 0:32.0 | who both alleged carried a rabbit's foot for good luck. |
| 0:36.0 | However, the roots of that specific myth aren't real. |
| 0:40.0 | It turns out the dark history of marketing body parts that were claimed to be cut under |
| 0:44.8 | specific circumstances that were under moonlight and near a church really were in |
| 0:50.0 | the early 20th century and were a very dark part of our history because it was with |
| 0:54.0 | specific racial groups. Some cultures carry a blue-evil eye token while others hang |
| 1:00.8 | horseshoes. Did these things help? Are we doing these because the generations |
| 1:05.1 | before us told us to do it? Is it tradition? Or is this just peer pressure from beyond the grave? |
| 1:12.2 | Some people believe that a four-leafed clover is good luck, but it turns out it was an |
| 1:16.3 | antenna 11-year-old girl in 1877 wrote a letter to a children's circulation known as |
| 1:21.5 | St. Nicholas magazine about fairies and luck with a four-leaf |
| 1:25.2 | clover. Now many of us have heard that finding a four-leaf clover is like a 10,000 to one |
| 1:30.5 | odd. It's actually far less. Someone did an actual survey of |
| 1:34.3 | approximately seven million clovers and found the frequency to be about 5,000 to one, |
| 1:39.9 | which is twice the popular probability. If you were to go to Pennsylvania and ask a paper salesman, |
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