That humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).
I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.
Whats about DNA??
Gene sequencing wasn’t really a thing (at least an affordable thing) until the 2010s, but once it was widely available archaeologists started using it on pretty much anything they could extract a sample from. Suddenly it became possible to track the migrations of groups over time by tracing gene similarities, determine how much intermarrying there must have been within groups, etc. Even with individual sites it has been used to determine when leadership was hereditary vs not, or how wealth was distributed (by looking at residual food dna on teeth). It really has revolutionized the field and cast a lot of old-school theories (often taken for truth) into the dustbin.
Wonder how many new ones it’s creating.
Scientist: ‘Look at this science thing that is definitely true because DNA!’ Narrator: ‘It wasn’t true’
A huge number of aspects of the US’s geopolitical enemies, and its own mythologization of the Founding Fathers and early settlers.
There was also a really bad political test with liberalism on the left and conservativism on the right, and we had to take a test and put what we got in front of everyone, which was very strange.
Trickle down economics are an effective way to redistribute wealth
Did we conclude that, I thought its still heavily debated.
Some argue in the 50s and 60s the US was spending Europe’s gold to build highways and infrastructure, gifting Americans the wealth with a continuation of the new deal, they then defaulted in 1971 as inflation eroded foreign debt owed.
Some feel some form of debt accrual is how we derive such a consumption focused standard of living, which is misallocated capital that ends in someone holding the bag when it can’t realistically be paid back or when population doesn’t grow fast enough like in Japan or most of the developed countries.
My favourite one was that the earth is 6000 years old
The question was about things taught at school.
It’s called a Christian school, i wouldn’t recommend it
Sure. You’re very funny.
They exist. There’s one in my town.
Religious schools exist!
I was also taught this in school, along with many very unscientific things. When they eventually taught us about evolution (they had to because of national curriculum) they couldn’t stop stressing how it was “just an outdated theory” and showed us additional videos which “disproved” it
Come on, I like a good “look at how stupid those Americans are” as much as anyone, but for it to be funny it has to be within the realm of what could possibly be true.
I’m not even American mate
But the joke here is about Americans, right? (If not, what is the joke that you’re trying to make!?)
Funny? Do you think religious schools don’t exist?
Please, it’s only necessary to think about it seriously for a single moment to realize that a school where children are taught “that the earth is 6000 years old” obviously doesn’t exist.
Shouldn’t exist. That’s different.
Their belief system is based on an a being that can’t be sense that banished people to infinite torment for following instincts that he designed them with, then sent part of himself to be tortured and killed as a sacrifice to make up for a curse he put on them, but only if you it was necessary. A ridiculous age of the earth is hardly the craziest thing schools like this teach.
Where did you go to school? Everybody knows its 2025 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.
I had a substitute teacher who saw the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads against John Kerry and repeated it to the class like it was 100% fact.
What
That tastes have specific regions on the tongue. We actually had to protest when that shit was taught at our son’s elementary school. Don’t know if it came up for our younger daughter.
Poor kids at school had old atlases where Germany was still separated. But I guess that’s just obsolete and not false knowledge.
There’s a weird thing here. I totally accept that the traditional tongue map is pseudoscience and debunked, but if you’re paying attention to something like wine or good chocolate, letting it spread across your whole tongue really does seem change the flavor and bring new aspects to what you’re tasting.
My subjective impression is that there is some effect to exposing the whole tongue to a stimulus, and I’d really like to understand it more - but when you search the web, you pretty much just get deconstructive articles about the old model, and not much about what might actually be happening.
Yeah, I remember that one. We even did an experiment to “prove” it. I was like, “I kinda taste it everywhere”. I don’t remember what the punishment for that one was exactly, but it was pretty severe, and I didn’t do anything wrong.
I remember getting detention on first grade for telling my classmate that a whale had beached here in finland. It happened, it was on the news. Same thing again after I told my classmate about some asteroid that is going to kill us all. On 6th grade the whole class was given detention for not having music books with us because the teachers had decided to change the schedule that morning.
Yeah, a lot of people seem to become teachers because they like being in a room full of people who won’t question them.
That particular teacher in the story was also let go at the end of the year, though, related to her treatment of students. It was kind of dramatic.
Allergies are entirely genetic. Apparently they ain’t or so I hear but it’s a bit above my paygrade biology wise
Epigenetics in general really messed with what a lot of people learned in school
TIL new word. Fascinating. Thanks!
I dont remember anything that was proven false. I remember i butted heads with my history teachers constantly. Having history as my hyperfocus of my autism, and hyperactive talking from adhd, i had to correct one teacher a lot.
Saying the classic “the HRE was neither holy nore roman nore an empire” but nobody called it that back then. It was known as just “the empire”. And the “holy” part was due to shenanigans with the pope, and it defenetly was an empire in the sense of span. Yes everything was autanomouse, but it was an empire by size of who swears loyalty.
I learned more that the things i back then saw as useless and “why are we being tought that” is actually really important. Example: text analysis if grammer, way of phrasing things, wether the autor clearly frames things threw choice of words, if it is a story, news article or comment
How planes generate lift.
What doesn’t help is that plane pilots are basically taught a different version of physics to spare them from liquid dynamics and to see the forces on an aerofoil as independent ones which makes it all pretty confusing for a layperson trying to get a basic understanding of both and marry the two
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.
NASA has a webpage on aeronautics that says lift is the mechanical force created by a solid object turning a flow of liquid or gas. They also have an equation for calculating lift for any solid object/fluid combo.
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
Edit: I had to do this in a wind tunnel during one of my undergrad courses. It was fun playing with the wind tunnels, would recommend
Gravity Waves didn’t exist according to my highschool science teacher
The D.A.R.E. program.
We congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.
I’m addicted to dopamine, and I’ll take any drug I can to get more of it.
I was taught that the moon landing was fake.
Jesus Christ, how? Why? I’m so sorry
It was false then but my seventh and eighth grade science teacher told us that blood was blue. My mom was a nurse so I knew that it was bullshit but was definitely confused because he was my science teacher.
I would say “cursive is how adults write, you’ll need to know it”, but that wasn’t true then either.
Cursive is such a bad way to write. I used to have to decipher sloppy cursive notes on how to check airplane fixtures. I even learned it in school!
Good cursive flows very nicely. I got to watch my grandmother’s handwriting deteriorate as the dementia and Alzheimer’s took her. Was always amazed for well she wrote when i was younger, but her handwriting turned pretty incomprehensive as her brain was eaten away by the disease
cursive sucks ass. im not reading that garbage
I cant even read my own cursive from back then.
Now i know how my teachers felt and why they constantly told me i write unreadablely. Used to be able to read it fluently lol
I actually use it myself sometimes when taking notes. It’s just the natural way to write for me. It’s faster and more space effective.
“You need a pen licence because that’s what you use at work”.
Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.
Only schoolchildren used biros.
Haven’t seen anybody post this but how gender and sexuality is, schools are so fucking about straight mom and dad only relationship and nothing else. Man and wife bullshit when there’s infinite amounts of gender and sexuality and diversity out there. Fuck I hate Amerikkka
I am from germany. Sex ed is not just manditory but also part of normal lessons all two years. The body, genetics, sex itself and how a baby is made and how protection and STDs work and which are there next to condom and pill
Funnily enought i wasnt present the whole male sex ed part so idk if they talked about queernes. Being in a psychiatric hospital they only had german, math, english, classes so litterly only the essentials
can you be more specific
What do you want more? This is pretty specific, what was taught to them about gender and sexuality, in particular that gender only exists in two forms, and no mention outside of heterosexuality. Pretty sure most of us had a similar experience in school about these subjects
Edit: downvoting until you reply. It’s not intellectually honest to ask such a question and kite off
