My dad still believes that the Sun makes the "Om" sound after seeing a post by some kind of Hindu nationalist on Twitter. I have told him many times, in the kindest way I can, that it's a load of rubbish. He still doesn't really believe me, mostly because the idea of the Sun making that sound is a pleasant idea that agrees with his world view.
Send this article to a hundred people and a lowball of seventy will take it as fact. Of that seventy, there will be a fraction who will believe it - or rather, internalise the notion of it - even despite being told that it is false.
In all fairness it's also very likely that I'm a just a nasty killjoy.