Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
TED Talks have been all the rage for a while now. Literally millions of people watch and listen to these lectures on a wide range of subjects and they’re very influential.
But apparently, not everyone is convinced that all TED Talks are helpful or accurate.
AskReddit users chimed in and dished on the TED Talks they thought were total BS.1. Cancer
“Anita Moorjani.
She talked about how she was dying from stage 4 lymphoma, and had fluid in her lungs and tumors the size of lemons all over her body and was living out her last moments…
She then said that she saw heaven and saw “why I got cancer” and “how to cure it” so when she woke up, she said her tumors had shrunk 70% in four days, and by the time she left the hospital a week later, she was completely cancer free.
There was a doctor that treated her that later came out and said that she was refusing chemotherapy for a year and a half, and once she started chemo she began making her full recovery.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, it was someone that got access to her medical files with her permission and came out and talked about it.”
2. Not a good performance
“Not sure who it was, but in one there was a girl who said how her violin teacher said it’d be impossible for her to play a piece, and she went on to learn it in a week out of defiance.
She then plays it for the audience.
Badly.
Almost every note is botched, and I can’t help but agree with the teacher. The comment section has the same mindset.
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3. BS
“Elizabeth Holmes giving a TedMed about Theranos.
Even before finding out all the data was fabricated, none of the talk really went anywhere, just claiming how they were going to revolutionize healthcare. She also has a really…
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