What’s the most batshit belief you’ve ever known someone to hold

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just met up with a long time friend (lovely, but utterly away with the fairies) who honestly believes the earth is flat as well as a whole host of other similarly crazy things. It got me thinking what’s the most batshit thing you’ve ever known anyone to think?

Penguins are fish. According to someone at uni.

I thought this would be a light-hearted thread about funny things people believe. Again, multiple posts about the trans issue. If you were in a pub and this conversation came up, would people use it as an oppertunity to bang the drum? Is your whole life like this? Give it a rest ffs. Just for one thread. I'm very glad that mumsnet is not reflective of real life in this instance.

My son once nearly bashed his head against a tree in frustration at a person trying to convince him that she gave off a special electrical field that made her computer go wrong. This person worked in education...

@Mamadothehump

i am afraid you are mistaken. Or maybe that is your batshit belief?

@GeorgeCat1
I bet you are

Frogs, for example. But there are plenty of examples of genetic abnormalities in animal species where sex identity is not a given. X and Y chromosomes are not the sole definers of sex, other genetic components are involved, and disorders of sex development are surprisingly common in animal species. So I don’t see any reason at all why gene engineering couldn’t change an animals sex under certain conditions. I’m interested to know why you think it would never be possible?

It's pretty much MN official doctrine unfortunately... completely agree with pp who would like the transphobes to bog off just once in a while and go and peddle their hate somewhere else

That Tony Blair (of whom I'm no particular fan, but still...) was the worst Europaean political leader in 100 years, When I said, 'What about Hitler?', she said 'They're similar.'

That Putin is a Good Man, unfairly misunderstood and slandered by the West. (Same person.)

That Stalin was a Good Man, unfairly misunderstood and slandered by the West. (Different person.)

The heads up their arse anti trans bigots are such a fucking bore on here!

This had so much potential for a nice read later now I think I'll clean the kitchen instead.

That moving a child to a hospice when they're on life support is caring and appropriate......

That cattle are all killed in the winter, as there are none in the fields.
I had to explain the concept of over wintering in barns, to him.

That people can change sex at all let alone just by saying it

That voting Tory is a good idea

... going 'Beep, beep, beep'! 😂

Are you suggesting that it's not possible to support trans rights without being a science denying lunatic?

Pretty unfortunate for trans people, if so.

That Covid doesn't exist/ isn't caused by a virus, and was invented by governments to gain power.

That vaccinations are evil, and were invented to cull the population.

You can change sex by stating it.

Fossils are the remains of the animals that didn't make it onto the ark.

The Royal family is fed a diet of ultra special royal jelly that gives them longevity and good health and thus they must be abolished so that us mere mortals can get our hands on it!

Having watched the BoE try to avoid Bit being mentioned as a disaster. Lots of countries had supply chain issues due to Covid and managed to sort those issues out. The war in Ukraine was foreseeable. In Ireland we had Bit fallout too and changed our transport links to bypass the UK. The BoE takes the public as fools and have got away with it.

Hmmm. My PhD thesis. Dogs secrete a growth factor in their saliva which may be effective at healing wounds. Never proven though.

The gremlins got at the post.

Yes, and someone invented something so that cars could run using water instead of petrol but the Oil Companies bought the patent as they make so much money from selling petrol.

Because Boris has done such a great job? 🙄

In what way ignorant? Do you mean ignorant of scientific facts?
Do you genuinely believe that men and women can change sex by taking hormones and having surgery?

Or is it that pointing out biological reality and refusing to ride the wave of gender ideology, it somehow makes us all ignorant people and therefore Transphobic?

Please enlighten us.

I thought this would be a light-hearted thread about funny things people believe. Again, multiple posts about the trans issue
Give it a rest ffs.

People are bringing it up because they think it's a very obvious batshit belief of the moment.

When people on this thread disagree that a belief is batshit, they have pointed that out and explained why it's not batshit. Why don't you do that?

Shaking your head, tutting at the transphobia and telling us to shut up isn't an explanation of why we're wrong, FYI.

Why aren't you tutting about the flat earther-phobia, religious-person-phobia, homeopath-phobia etc? Because you know thinking a belief is batshit/untrue does not equal hatred.

Thinking humans can change sex at will, and that it's a good idea to encourage distressed, autistic, gay and gnc kids down a pathway of lifelong hormones and surgical changes, despite the fact that somehow (especially if you're an adult male) you can change sex just by saying so, is something i would describe as batshit. But if I'm wrong, explain why, with evidence and logic. The funny thing is no one ever does. Having a belief that you can't (r refuse to) defend with science and logic, yet think everyone else should agree with, is... well batshit.

That winning at bingo is a skill and not purely down to chance. My aunty thought this and didn’t understand that it was just good luck when she won