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Some Pseudoscience and myths we still believe

Hi frnd, In this post I have mentioned some science fact and myth, among which some myth are not properly proof by science yet. But we still used to believe in that. That are also known as Pseudoscience.


Bad Small Can Make You Sick

According to the once-popular miasma theory, diseases were caused by "bad air." Miasma is the name for this foul-smelling, poisonous vapor that carried particles of decaying matter. In 1854, epidemiologists traced a deadly outbreak of cholera to water contamination. Discovering no organic matter in the water that was undoubtedly causing all the cholera, John Snow debunked miasma theory by proving that cholera is a waterborne disease. Soon, germ theory caught on and miasma flew out the window.

Diffrent Parts of Tongue Have Different Taste

Maybe this is one you learned in school, and maybe even still believe. Sorry, the idea that the tip of your tongue picks up sour tastes, or the middle of your tongue processes sweetness, or whatever, is a myth. Your entire tongue can sense sweet, sour, salty, and bitter more or less equally.Virginia Collings, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, offered evidence that debunked the well-known tongue taste map in 1974. She found that even though there was a slight difference in concentrations of certain taste receptors in certain areas of the tongue, the overall effect this had on taste was negligible, Yale Scientific reports.

Continents Are Unmovable

In 1912, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener proposed continental drift theory. His idea held that the continents were once all together in a single supercontinent, then gradually drifted apart. Of course, as with any forward-thinker, Wegener had his haters. Rollin T. Chamberlin, a University of Chicago geologist, said that Wegener's work "takes considerable liberties with our globe," it ignores "awkward, ugly facts," and "plays a game in which there are few restrictive rules." Change is hard.

Universe is Static

Albert Einstein was right about a lot of things (gravitational waves, anyone?), but not everything. Until 1931, he thought that the universe was finite, static in time, and possessed of a uniform distribution of matter. In 1927, Georges LemaƮtre, a Belgian astrophysicist and priest, concluded that the universe was expanding by combining general relativity with astronomical observations. It took a few years for Einstein to come around to this idea.

Hypothetical Substance Ether,Through Which Light Travel

An easy way to explain the mysteriously weird fabric of the universe is to just paint it all as the ether. This hypothetical stuff is said to be the necessary medium that Earth, other planets, and light travels through in space. The one and only Albert Einstein shot this idea down when he published his Theory of Special Relativity in 1905. We now know that no transmission medium is required for light, as light in space moves in a vacuum.

Earth is at Center

Ancient minds sure thought highly of the Earth. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus set everyone straight by asserting that everything in the universe doesn't revolve around our home planet. His book "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies)" laid out a heliocentric model of the universe that is similar to what we believe today. To be fair, Aristarchus of Samos was the first known person to say that the sun was in the center of the universe, according to NASA.He proposed this in the third century BCE, but this belief laid dormant until Copernicus put some more thought behind it.

The Size And Shape of Your Mind Decide Your Brain Power

In the 18th century, physician Franz Joseph Gall developed his theory linking anatomy to brain function. He concocted phrenology, the idea that different parts of your brain governed particular functions, moods, and behaviors. With this theory, Gall believed that studying the bumps and lumps of the skull could reveal the character of the brain beneath. What does the shape of your head say about your mind? Phrenology was mostly discredited by the 1840s and has since been considered pseudoscience. 

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