What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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-Coequal branches of government
-Separation of Church and State
-Life terms for SCOTUS ensures political impartiality
-The second amendment was so that we could defend ourselves (see: redcoats)
-Bohr system -
-Coequal branches of government
-Separation of Church and State
-Life terms for SCOTUS ensures political impartiality
-The second amendment was so that we could defend ourselves (see: redcoats)
-Bohr systemUnless you are by far the oldest person on Earth, these were disproven far before you were born
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That CO2 makes up 0.03% of the atmosphere.
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Study and work hard will make you successful.
Depends on your definition of successful
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That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like "do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?" and "do you like more freedom or less freedom?" All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.
This was in middle school so I wasn't even politically engaged yet. I didn't realize how crazy this was until years later.
Ironically, I have read that there was a study that found that the most gullible kids in elementary school grow up to be republican. I'm not kidding.
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My favourite one was that the earth is 6000 years old
I am a Christian and I don't believe that. I could go on at length about how the Bible doesn't support that idea.
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Pluto is a great test for what types of person someone is.
If someone says Pluto is still a planet. They have a personality where they are immovable and can't accept scientific change.
If they do say pluto is a new kind of dwarf planet they arw more accepting of new information and belive in the scientific method.
It's a great quick test when meeting news people.
I recently heard that they discovered hundreds of Pluto sizes "planets" beyond Pluto, so they had to decided do we add 100 more planets or just demote Pluto to planetoid and ignore the rest
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Did they finally find that out? Last time I checked even PhDs in aerospace engineering still added "we think" at the end of their explanations.
The wing experiment with hundreds of pressure sensors shows lower pressure on top and more on bottom.
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Gravity Waves didn't exist according to my highschool science teacher
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It's called a Christian school, i wouldn't recommend it
Sure. You're very funny.
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We don't know what the appendix does, the whole pluto thing, I think the Oxford comma is going out of style, and cursive in general.
But I love cursive, mine was "very nice" according to my teachers.
Thank you for your continued support of the Oxford comma.
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We don't know what the appendix does, the whole pluto thing, I think the Oxford comma is going out of style, and cursive in general.
But I love cursive, mine was "very nice" according to my teachers.
I've been working on my hand writing, and these kids can't read cursive. I worked real hard and my young coworkers were like bart.Bart. I developed my own short hand during college. My notes might as well be encrypted. I can't be old! I'm still with it!
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Not only in School, even at university I was taught the DNA structure was solved by Watson und Crick. But they stole data from Rosalind franklin and even openly admitted it years later.
Along with Franklin, I believe a grad student, Raymond Gosling. I feel I'm forgetting about another big contributor, but who knows.
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I would say "cursive is how adults write, you'll need to know it", but that wasn't true then either.
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I've been working on my hand writing, and these kids can't read cursive. I worked real hard and my young coworkers were like bart.Bart. I developed my own short hand during college. My notes might as well be encrypted. I can't be old! I'm still with it!
My handwriting turned around after I got a fountain pen. I went from doctor to pre-med handwriting. Having to think more about how to form the letters has me taking my time. No need to rush when I'm writing with a fancy pen full of cool ink.
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Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.
Is it so bad to know your multiplication tables? It’s lowk a quality of life thing yknow. imo it’s just a good thing to know so you aren’t entirely reliant on the calculator for an answer.
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PLUTO IS A PLANET!
Ok Jerry.
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Taste buds are arranged by flavor in four sections of the tongue. Complete load of horseshit.
I need to use multiplication at work every single day, it's extremely handy to remember them.
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I recently heard that they discovered hundreds of Pluto sizes "planets" beyond Pluto, so they had to decided do we add 100 more planets or just demote Pluto to planetoid and ignore the rest
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Junk DNA is still a thing - some parts of thr genome are verifiably junk, and the rest is just "unkown". It's just that some of the "unknown" bits back in the day have now been found to actually be useful. At least this is my understanding as a non expert.
Various parts that don’t directly make proteins will regulate their production or carry out other vital tasks. Those systems take s lot of space, and all of it was considered junk DNA when it wasn’t understood. Biochemistry has taken huge leaps within the last 50 years, so many notions have been either updated or discarded.
