Breast cancer myth
It continues to bother me that some well intentioned people perpetuate the myth that 50% of breast cancer could be avoided just by exercising. This notion makes my blood boil!
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Yeah, you wonder where they get that figure. 50%. Not 47%, not 57% but a very specific value. It's worth asking the question where they got the information if you want to engage with that particular (usually victim blaming) conversation.
People, usually, don't mean to be cruel or unhelpful but some of them are remarkably good at it. Sadly, they are just mindlessly parroting nonsense they read on Facebook or in New Idea or some such high value publication. Every once in a while you come across someone who justly deserves to be told to fuck off. I like that bit; it almost makes it worth putting up with the benignly idiotic.