The 2020s
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Things people believed and taught during the 2020s.
We are in it. The pandemic. Vaccine misinformation at unprecedented scale. AI tools that confidently generate fluent nonsense. The dopamine detox. The cold plunge. Microplastics in your bloodstream and probably your testicles. ChatGPT mistaken for a search engine. The smart bet on this decade is that we'll look back in 2050 and find the same proportion of confidently held beliefs were wrong as in any decade before. We won't know which ones until we get there. That is the entire reason this site exists.
mRNA Vaccines Permanently Alter Your DNA
mRNA is destroyed by your body within days; it cannot integrate into chromosomal DNA
ChatGPT Is a Search Engine
It's a probability machine that occasionally gets the facts right by accident
Vaccines Contain Microchips for Tracking
Impossible physics: microchips too large for hypodermic needles and require power sources
COVID mRNA Vaccines Were Rushed and Untested
mRNA vaccine platform developed over 30 years; clinical trials followed all safety protocols
AI Detectors Reliably Catch ChatGPT-Written Essays
They flag false positives at around 20 percent and have a particular bias against non-native English writers
Surgisphere COVID-19 Hydroxychloroquine Study Was Fraudulent Data
2020 Lancet paper retracted after data integrity concerns revealed likely fabrication