13 Popular Science Lies that Must be Corrected

You Only Use 10% of Your Brain

This is a myth that has been repeated a million times in movies that somehow if we could just unlock our full 100%, we’d be telekinetic superheroes. Tough luck, but this is just fiction. Modern neuroscience proves that we are using almost all of our brains.

As we read, blink, or even daydream, different regions become activated. Brain scans show activity in nearly all brain regions — the myth is finally put to rest.