‘What ‘confidently incorrect’ fact has someone told you about something you’re an expert in?’ – 23 people who got it unvelievably wrong

13.

‘Someone tried correcting my punching form at the gym. He did two boxing classes, I’m a brown belt and an assistant instructor for a martial arts dojo.’
–notaspecificthing

14.

‘At an academic conference I had someone cite my book at me as a reason why I was clearly wrong about the topic of my book.’
–Clear-Security-Risk

15.

‘I was told that the company that I work for was not, in fact, the company that managed the site where I worked. Even though I was the site manager…’
–WrekTheHead

16.

‘I’m definitely no expert in the subject but I have cancer in my eye. I have had a nurse tell me I can’t have, because it’s not possible to have cancer in your eye.’
–Wonderful-Newt2181

17.

‘”There are no more cotton factories round here.”

“I am literally installing robots in one 3 miles up the road.”‘
–GourangaPlusPlus

18.

‘We only use X% of our brain capacity. Have a PhD in Neuroscience.’
–Expensive_Novel1818

19.

‘The girlfriend of a friend announcing that one of her lecturers had told her Milton Keynes was named for Friedman and John Maynard. I corrected her, gently.’
–BlackJackKetchum

20.

‘I was at the Glastonbury festival in 2001 (I think) and Greenpeace were telling people that the fire that happened at the Windscale nuclear power plant in 1957 was still burning. About three days prior I was stood on the top of the pile chimney above where the fire occurred. I think I’d have noticed.’
–BryOnRye

21.

‘That deoxygenated blood is blue. It was my Head of Science, with a masters in Biology, that told me this. Here’s me a lowly physics teacher totally dumbfounded.’
–BlueFaceMonster

22.

‘I do woodwork. I was selling a carving I had made on a piece of Giant Sequoia, from a branch I had collected from the bottom of the tree and milled myself. A potential customer argued that it was in fact Yew, and I was pricing it incorrectly. Yes they are both red, but seeing as I’d harvested the wood from the tree myself, I should know.’
–RunawayPenguin89

23.

‘When I worked as a divorce lawyer, a client told me that ripping up a marriage certificate within 12 months of the wedding means that the marriage is void, you don’t need a divorce and you can remarry. I do wonder how many bigamous marriages there are.’
–Special_Corgi1110

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