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Quotes About Mythbusting

Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.
~ Grant Imahara
You may be wondering: Could Ella Fitzgerald explode your liver? She could not.
~ Mary Roach
drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimos do not have more words for snow than do speakers of English. They do not have four hundred words for snow, as it has been claimed in print, or two hundred, or one hundred, or forty-eight, or even nine. One dictionary puts the figure at two.
~ Steven Pinker
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.
~ Terry Pratchett
Antioxidants are completely useless.
~ Michael Specter
Oral Sex Won't Cause Brain Freeze.
~ Unknown