Talk:List of common misconceptions
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Not part of their natural diet, not good for them, can be deadly if fed regularly Started w Bugs Bunny (itself a reference to a scene in "It Happened One Night") Celdin7 (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
In the "bumblebees should not be able to fly" section, I reverted the part about Bee Movie further popularizing the misconception [9] with edit summary: I don't think so; Business Insider only says "But Bee Movie is also spreading lies.", not that it was further popularized
. The counter argument (edit summary) was I think that "spreading" and "further populariz[ing]" are synonymous.
My thinking was partly informed by my personal assessment that the canard was popular as early as the 80's, if not before; I remember coming across it in many diverse sources (likely Scientific American and popular science books of the time). So that was some forty-plus years before the movie, and I guessed that very few who came across it in the movie, as I did, were encountering it for the first time. From that perspective, spread is not the same thing as further popularize. I've never made a mistake in judgement here at Wikipedia, but if it were to happen, I must say this seems my weakest argument yet. Given that, I'm happy to have had my say, here and in the revert, and leave the rest of you to consider it. Cheers. signed, Willondon (talk) 20:22, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm not seeing anywhere in the topic article or the cite where this is described as a common misconception. Could someone point out the language that does that? Mr. Swordfish (talk) 20:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC) Mr. Swordfish (talk) 20:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
"The general public believed the average profit margin made by American corporations to be 46.7%, while the actual average that year was just 3%." [10] Benjamin (talk) 18:29, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
1) The effect of european honey bees on other bee species doesn't have particularly much to do with their role in agriculture. It would be uncontroversial to state that many practices are important for the human agricultural system but potentially harmful to many species. E.g: Excessive use of pesticides, nitrogen supplementation, and so on.