looks like I have to be the one debunking the widely held misconception about urine being sterile. no, not the fact that urine is not sterile, most of you know that. I'm here to disprove the myth of the myth of urine being sterile. everyone seems to be assuming that the false information that "urine is sterile" is a urban myth, folk knowledge, or widespread misinformation. it's not. that information, albeit wrong, was part of the established medical model up until 2014 or so, when advanced methods of detecting potential pathogens disproved it https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02876-13 .

this therefore should be shelved with the "covid and the flu are transmitted by droplets" category of mistakes from establishment medicine, not in the category of urban myths. I believe people will attribute any errors made by modern medicine retroactively to "myths" or "folk wisdom" because they don't want to see medical authorities as fallible. asking your friend who is transgender, or Black, or fat, or chronically ill etc. about things their doctors told them should quickly disabuse you of that notion.