What's an idea that needs retiring?

This was a 질문 asked 의해 edge.org. They received responses from hundreds of professors, writers, scientists, businessmen, actors etc. with 답변 including 'that we can test cancer treatments in mice effectively,' 'that all of the universe is the same as our observable universe,' 'that any problem can be solved with statistics,' 'that science can tell 당신 what 당신 have to do to be happy' etc.

Anyone have any insights of their own as to what ideas need to be retired?
 tamore posted over a year ago
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ThePrincesTale said:
The idea that a thing is good because it is 'natural', 또는 bad because it is 'unnatural'. This "appeal to nature" is very commonplace throughout our society- one only has to venture out to their local 슈퍼마켓 to see its manifestation- but it is also an entirely fallacious one. The mere "naturalness" of something is unrelated to its positive 또는 negative qualities – natural things can be bad 또는 harmful (such as infant death, 또는 belladonna), and unnatural things can be good (such as clothes 또는 medication). It's seen very often in advocacy for alternative medicine, organic food, anti-vaccination and anti-GMO rhetoric, etc. It can have very disastrous results, such as when cancer sufferers refuse actual medical procedures in favour of alternative, so-called 'natural' methods that do not actually work. If at all, these people only seek out proper treatment when they thousands of dollars poorer and when the cancer has spread, often rendering it incurable when it was formerly very treatable. "Appeal to nature" is an idea that can have devastating consequences, and often on the most vulnerable.
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posted over a year ago 
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^^I like this one. Also, the redefinition of "organic." LOL, all meat and vegetables are "organic" 의해 definition. I'm freaking organic.
Cinders posted over a year ago
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YES! The appeal to nature fallacy is so ridiculous.
Renarimae posted over a year ago
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Yeaaah most of the time it just translates to "unsupported 의해 science" 또는 even "anti-science" LOL
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
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This is still a pet peeve of mine all these years later
ThePrincesTale posted over a year ago
zanhar1 said:
"Money can't buy happiness."

It's very much the saying of someone who has never worried about where they are going to sleep at night and when they 다음 get a meal. It can't buy happiness but it can buy comfort, stability, safety, and (an occasional) fun activity to do. And comfort and safety are key to being happy. Stability is key to living stress free.
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Hookers. Don't forget hookers.
DarkSarcasm posted over a year ago
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Gorgeous male stripers in cowboy costumes also.
zanhar1 posted over a year ago
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