You might find that you yourself believed some of these dumb things for a while, or even to this day. But hopefully not the bear one. The bear one is just plain dumb.
There's a lot of anti-vaxxers out there not only denying science, but lying about their own lives online to give themselves more false credibility. That's what makes it all the sweeter to see them brought to light.
Maybe your parents lied to you, maybe you were reading a discredited book, or maybe you heard it on the playground. We've got a lot of erroneous garbage banging around our noggins.
