People have been sharing things the public gets spectacularly wrong about their area of expertise – 21 massive (and common) misconceptions
12.
You can start a sentence with “and”.
And I strongly recommend you do so.
13.
Numeracy ≠ mathematics.
— Amie Albrecht (@nomadpenguin.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:47 PM
14.
The vast majority of people making the things you love are not making any money doing it
— John Learned (@johnlearned.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:41 PM
15.
Climate change: (1) it's real (2) it's bad (3) it's us (4) scientists agree (5) there's hope (but not without political will)
— I, State Your Name (@gjohnson-42.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 5:48 AM
16.
There is little to no evidence that trees communicate with each other through fungal networks
— Liz Haswell (@ehaswell.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:35 PM
17.
People who experience addiction aren’t failing morally, broken, bad, weak, criminals, or inferior.
— Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:30 PM
18.
It's okay to be your child's friend and your home is supposed to be their sanctuary, not the gulag of "hard knocks".
— Skeletired and 67 others (@skeletired.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 5:28 AM
19.
Young children learn best when you follow their own interests rather than try to get them to follow yours. This may mean ditching the colourful picture books and giving them a wooden spoon to bang on a pot for hours
— Caroline Rowland (@carorowland.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 7:24 AM
20.
Graphic novels do, in fact, count as "real reading" and kids should feel proud reading them.
— Katie Slivensky (@kslivensky.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:26 PM
21.
Ancient people were actually not comically dumb stupid idiots who didn’t understand anything and didn’t know how to do anything.
— Jacob (@iacobuscaesar.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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