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What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?

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  • cactus_head@programming.devC [email protected]

    I dont follow, if you are talking about lifestyle choices there is really inst any similarity, neither in weight, eating habits or work or living conditions .My grandma and grandpa lived in a village until there 40s. Also heart disease is not the only genetic disease in the family. Both my mom and her mom had ovary cancer.Diabetes runs in the family both type 1 and type ,both sets of grandparents and both there siblings and parents,both sets of aunts and uncles, me and my sisters plus alot other relatives. My grandma(father's side) had bipolar, so does my uncle so does my sister and all of this is just counting genetic disease and not everything else like baldness(both me and my uncle started at 16), i have a single string of blonde hair growing in exactly the middle of my forehead and so does my aunt's daughter(our moms are twins) and we both have a baby tooth that steal didnt follow at our 20s with the adult one growing behind them

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    The question wasn't wether there are inheritable health issues, diabetes, some cancer, etc are demonstrated to have a heredity component. I'm not even arguing that heart disease 'isn't' hereditary, I'm just saying that in the context the argument, you saying that several of your family members had it doesn't prove that specific thing is inherited. Everyone does of something and the fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited.

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      The question wasn't wether there are inheritable health issues, diabetes, some cancer, etc are demonstrated to have a heredity component. I'm not even arguing that heart disease 'isn't' hereditary, I'm just saying that in the context the argument, you saying that several of your family members had it doesn't prove that specific thing is inherited. Everyone does of something and the fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited.

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      he fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited

      It does though? like it doesn't have to be 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt genetic like say type 1 diabetes, and with everything else it most likely is

      are demonstrated to have a heredity component

      I am of the believe that most health issues are genetic, be it mutation or hereditary. I haven't looked into it much but from experience ppl tend to believe most diabetes are caused by being overweight(or general life style) and that's no the case in my experience. I feel believing its life style choices hurts ppl more in the long run than it helps(the number of arguments i got with non-diabetes ppl about my own diabetes for example)

      But also like what does this have to do with anything?

      Heart disease runs in families. Nope.

      the OG commenter said it doesn't runs in families and we both agree it can, why does it matter whether it runs specifically in my family or not. People with health issues know about their own medical history, when someone tells you heart disease run in the family, take them at their word(plus they probably talked to doctors and what not)

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        Everything about Christopher Columbus.

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          It is known yeah. Another user commented it. If you take a wing and put it in a wind tunnel you can put sensors in its wake to measure the pressure. By manipulating the fluid flow you can change the pressure. So low pressure on top and high pressure on bottom. Multiply that by the surface area and you get a force. Smaller force on top of the wing, lower force on the bottom of the wing. So the wing goes up. Of course theres some physics going on in the fluid that explains the change in pressure, but this is just a quick and simply-put explanation because I took a fat amount of zquil and am tired.

          Source: Im getting a PhD in aerospace engineering

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          hm, I just read through a few publications pertaining the Navier–Stokes equations and the scientific community still didn't seem to find out why they're not 100% accurate even in lab conditions, is that correct?

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            he fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited

            It does though? like it doesn't have to be 100% beyond a shadow of a doubt genetic like say type 1 diabetes, and with everything else it most likely is

            are demonstrated to have a heredity component

            I am of the believe that most health issues are genetic, be it mutation or hereditary. I haven't looked into it much but from experience ppl tend to believe most diabetes are caused by being overweight(or general life style) and that's no the case in my experience. I feel believing its life style choices hurts ppl more in the long run than it helps(the number of arguments i got with non-diabetes ppl about my own diabetes for example)

            But also like what does this have to do with anything?

            Heart disease runs in families. Nope.

            the OG commenter said it doesn't runs in families and we both agree it can, why does it matter whether it runs specifically in my family or not. People with health issues know about their own medical history, when someone tells you heart disease run in the family, take them at their word(plus they probably talked to doctors and what not)

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            It only 'matters' to the extent that OP claimed it doesn't run in families, and you seemed to be claiming it does 'because' you had 3 -5 relatives that died from it. All I'm saying it's that anecdotal evidence doesn't refute an assertion like that.

            If you'd said 'it does run in families and here is a statistically significant sampling across variable x, y and z' i wouldn't be arguing, I'd likely be reading an article about it. But it's worth pointing out when people use unscientific reasoning in a forum where other people might be influenced by an argument if no one calls out the fault in logic.

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