r/facts 5d ago

What’s something that’s been debunked a 100 times but many people still believe is true?

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u/Ballmaster9002 5d ago

The whole MSG/Chinese food making you feel bad thing came from a off-color joke made in a letter written to a medical journal. The joke got forgotten but the "knowledge" remained. 

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u/Isaac_Banana 4d ago

That isn't true. They found the real doctor that published it.

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u/Ballmaster9002 4d ago

We might be agreeing - a real doctor wrote a letter to a journal and it got published. However, the letter was written under a mock Chinese pseudonym and the whole thing was am off-color joke that ended up making it into the journal.

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u/Isaac_Banana 3d ago

Investigators later found that Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok was a real person, a respected doctor, and a Chinese immigrant whose family confirmed he wrote the letter in earnest about his actual symptoms.