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Hey there /sci/entists

How many of these common misconceptions were implanted in your minds by ignorant teachers during your early years of education?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#Science

The tongue chart is probably the most infamous example. When I was a little kid, one of my stupid teachers told my class all about how different portions of our tongue could sense different kinds of tastes (like sweet, sour, et cetera). But wait! Candy tasted good no matter what part of my tongue it touched! At the time, I figured I was just having trouble noticing the difference, but it turns out that we were simply lied to. I'm not sure why. This whole "tongue map" bullshit stems from a mistranslation of a discredited German paper that was published more than a century ago.

Also, people do not use only 10% of their brains. How many science fiction movies were based entirely on that stupid premise? Too many. I'm not sure if any of my school teachers repeated this bit of mis-information, but they probably did, because every motherfucker believes it. Not that I blame you morons, since it's so easy to believe, and people generally want to believe it. But it's unsupported nonsense. So much for learning telekinesis.

Also, there was never any scientific evidence that men think about sex every ten seconds (or any other number of seconds). Women just like to repeat nonsense this because they think they're somehow morally superior to us disgusting, perverted men.

Oh, and lemmings don't commit suicide.

> mfw

>>2052138
Signal strength diminshes with the cube of distance.

>>2040021
>If a population is perfectly adapted to an environment there is no need for genetic diversity.

This thread.

>>1936978
>mfw I saw recognized the trip fag in that screen shot and realized how much of your time you just wasted on this nutbag.