1. Alchemy

Although Sir Isaac Newton made massive
contributions to physics, he remained convinced that he could convert base metals into gold. Thanks to alchemy, however, today we have chemistry.

2. Dinosaurs Had Leathery Skin

Actually, scientists have now come to the
conclusion that they were mostly covered in
feathers.

3. The Speed of Universe Expansion

The prominent view of the cosmos until recently was that the expansion of the universe is slowing down because of gravity. In the 1990’s, however, new evidence showed that the expansion of the universe was in fact speeding up.

4. Intelligence of Neanderthals

In the past, it was thought that Neanderthals died out because Homo sapiens were smarter. New evidence contradicts this. According to researchers, neanderthals may have even been more intelligent than our human ancestors. Why did they die out then? We’re not quite sure.

5. King Tut's Death

In 2006, historians found evidence that King Tut had died in a chariot accident. In 2014, however, scientists discovered that he had in fact died because of inbreeding.

6. Apes: The Smartest Non-Human Animal

According to recent research, birds are quite
intelligent. In fact, some studies have shown them to be even smarter than apes.

7. Water Only Found on Earth

As NASA recently discovered, there is more water on Jupiter’s moon of Europa than there is on our own planet.

8. Complex Organisms = More Genes

Scientists used to think that humans have around 100,000 genes. One of the most surprising things to come out of the Human Genome Project was that we in fact have only about 20,000. And the crazy part? Some tiny moss plants have more than
30,000!

9. Time Is Constant

Not since Einstein. When he showed that light was the only constant, the world thought he was crazy. These days, however, NASA has to adjust its clocks because time runs differently depending on how far you are from a source of gravity and how fast you are going. In fact, a clock at sea level ticks faster than a clock at the top of the Empire State Building. I love Einstein!!!!

10. Growing Lambs

Although the Greeks were ahead of their time in many ways, they held a crazy belief that you could grow lambs on trees. This belief allegedly arose out of stories coming from the Indies, where people described trees on “which wool grew.” The idea of lambs growing on trees persisted well into
the 1600’s.

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11. Hollow Earth Theory

If you’ve ever read A Journey to the Center of the Earth then you are familiar with this theory. Up until the late 1800’s, some people believed that the center of the Earth might contain, well…nothing.

12. Irrational Numbers

Pythagoras and his followers were almost
religiously obsessed with numbers. One of their key doctrines was that all numbers could be expressed as the ratio of integers. So when Hippasus pointed out that the square root of 2 was irrational…it shocked the Pythagoreans, and they had him drowned at sea.

13. Telegony

This was the idea that offspring could inherit traits from the previous mates of their mother. This theory was highly favored among Nazis who believed that an Aryan woman who had intercourse with a non-Aryan man could no longer have a “pure” Aryan child.

14. California Island

It’s funny because everybody has heard the
phrase, “California is an island unto itself.” This metaphorical phrase used to be taken quite literally though. It wasn’t until expeditions late in the 1700’s that map makers realized California was in fact part of North America.

15. The "Unbreakable" Laws of Newtonian
Physics

Quantum mechanics completely changed the way we understand the world. On a quantum level, things get crazy in ways that are hard to comprehend.

16. Phrenology

This theory held that inner character was
influenced by physical appearance, specifically the measurements of the skull.

17. Flat Earth

While this used to be widely accepted (and widely refuted), there are still people out there that believe this. Just look up the Flat Earth Society.

18. Ulcers are Caused by Stress

Wrong. Ulcers are caused by bacteria, and the researchers that proved it actually won the Nobel Prize in 2005. In fact, one of the researchers even ingested the bacteria to prove it.

19. Pluto is a Planet

Well, at first it wasn’t. Then it was. And now it isn’t again.

20. Genetic Variance between Human Races

Actually, there isn’t much genetic variance
between human races at all. Recent studies in the 21st century have even shown more variance between African tribes than between Africans and Europeans.

The thing that annoys me the most is when they say so so so creature is over 60million years old.

21. Neanderthals and Humans Didn’t Mix

Actually, after the neanderthal gene was
sequenced in 2010, scientists found that up to 4% of people living outside of Africa have neanderthal DNA. This means that there was some cross breeding.

22. Phlogiston

Hypothesized in the 1600’s by Johann Joachim Becher, this “element” was meant to explain burning. Also, it was believed that humans didn’t breathe to get oxygen…they breathed to expel phlogiston so they wouldn’t start burning.

23. The Earth as the Center of the Universe

Thanks to Nicolaus Copernicus, the Ptolemaic model of the Solar System (with the Earth at the center), was replaced with our current understanding.

24. Miasma theory

This was the idea that miasma (bad air) is
responsible for disease. Prior to the introduction of germ theory in the late 1800’s, this was the most widely accepted explanation for why people got sick. The results of this theory led to some rather interesting medical solutions. During the
Middle Ages doctors would prescribe “fart
smelling.” Apparently it was believed that like cures like, and if bad air caused the disease…bad air could cure it.

25. The Four Humourss

For physicians and scientists of antiquity, the body was composed of four humours – phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, and blood. If your body wasn’t producing a healthy balance of these humours, then you would get sick. This is why blood letting was so common up until the 1800’s (then we found out about germs).

Oluwasaeon:
The thing that annoys me the most is when they say so so so creature is over 60million years old.

If it can be disproves, then its wrong.

But if it can't? Then its right!

izublingz:


If it can be disproves, then its wrong.

But if it can't? Then its right!

You yourself do you believe the Earth is over 3billion or whatever the age they call it to be ?

Oluwasaeon:

You yourself do you believe the Earth is over 3billion or whatever the age they call it to be ?

Yes

izublingz:


Yes

Lol...okay

hummmmm... Nice one

Interesting.

izublingz:


Yes

Can you back it up with with convincing evidence?

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In most of these 25 things, its still science that proved science wrong. Soo science is still correct. Science wins

If only we could use the principles of science in nigeria both as leaders and as followers instead of whatever we're currently using.

Hmmmm

Jamb is subjecting people to hardship and it's getting out of hand!

The change of institution/course is causing more damage than good to candidates since Jamb discontinued the correction process from their portal site!

At least two candidates had passed out (fainted) and were yet to be revived before i left the Jamb office in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The security agencies officials were pouring water on candidates whilst some were threatening them with guns!


Nigeria is 56 years at least. We cannot afford to continue this way.

Please help candidates rebroadcast this until it gets to the right channels so Jamb can reopen the portal site!

It's difficult attaching pictures and the video clips that's why there isn't any here! Thank you!

lenghtinny:

Can you back it up with with convincing evidence?

No mind am, he don run away since last month. How can you believe the Earth is over 3,4,5 billion years old ?

I always wonder if the Big Bang is just some bullshit concocted by scientists who have zero clue how the universe works. This is what I mean.

This so called expansion, that is, from that singularity, to this current earth, expanding, goes against the laws of Thermodynamics and logic

If energy can never can be created in this our close system, does it mean that singularity carried every single element we have today?

The Neanderthals too don't move me much. The field of paleoanthropology has been marked with so much dispute and bad blood. In some decades time other stories will sprout out against that.

izublingz:


Yes

Through what dating method? What exactly was dated and how does anyone know the interval of existence between the dated matter and the earth? I think science has lied to the world a lot. Too many lies.

Bros no vex o

Who corrected those wrongs for you?

Oluwasaeon:
No mind am, he don run away since last month. How can you believe the Earth is over 3,4,5 billion years old ?

Why not? Because you don't believe in something does not make it a lie.

If you believe the earth is not that old, how how old do you think earth is?

I think it is wrong to say science got these things totally wrong cos at the end it's still science that gives you the so-called truth that you now have. The new knowledge only disproves the former and itself could someday also be disproved.