Biggest Scientific Blunders?

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Biggest Scientific Blunders? Anonymous Sun Jul 28 19:18:35 2019 No.10844917 [Reply] [Original]

What are some of the biggest historical scientific mistakes, ones that KEPT getting made?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 19:22:32 2019 No.10844930 Constantly developing new technologies that are able to kill us all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 28 19:32:23 2019 No.10844958 File: 179 KB, 2480x1375, tai.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >cited by 362

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 04:14:44 2019 No.10845917 >>10844958 Huh?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 07:26:26 2019 No.10846147 >>10844958 That is not blunder, that is medical students being bad at math. (If I guess correctly the article describes integration)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:29:47 2019 No.10846217 >>10844930 hey, how are we gonna genocide every non white without weapons of mass destruction once the weimar USA collapses

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:32:13 2019 No.10846222 >>10844917 >What are some of the biggest historical scientific mistakes, ones that KEPT getting made? Usage of the imperial system of units and all deaths associated with it in aerospatial engineering.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 08:40:29 2019 No.10846235 Destroying nature AGAIN

Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:37:58 2019 No.10846470
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>>10844917
>the biggest historical scientific mistakes, ones that KEPT getting made?
Fucking me over every day
Worshipping the Whore of Babylon instead of the Lord God
Giving the Lord's seat of authority to the Whore's servant the cocksucker.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 10:39:15 2019 No.10846474 >>10846147 Not even real integration, just the trapezoid rule.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 19:27:03 2019 No.10847608 >>10846474 What rule?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 19:29:36 2019 No.10847617 File: 21 KB, 400x330, TrapezoidRule1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10847608

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 19:33:48 2019 No.10847624 >>10844917 austerity study that influenced EU policies

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:09:57 2019 No.10847703 >>10844917 In paleontology, assuming almost every new species must also be a new genus is a mistake that continues to be made to this day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:11:39 2019 No.10847705 >>10846235 Assumes that man, an animal that evolved in nature, is somehow now unnatural. Man and his artifacts are as much a part of nature as beavers and their dams, or termites and their mounds. Everythng that happens is nature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 20:15:20 2019 No.10847712 >>10847705 Stop trying to erase the useful meanings of words to satisfy your autism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 29 23:59:17 2019 No.10848243 >>10844917 Cold Fusion comes to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 00:09:05 2019 No.10848251 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 03:05:12 2019 No.10848577 >>10844930 E=mc2 When E=Md2

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 15:57:24 2019 No.10849941 >>10848577 What?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 30 18:04:31 2019 No.10850288 >>10844958 I heard it's an inside joke to cite the article when using the trapezoid rule.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 04:26:35 2019 No.10851634 >>10850288 Why?

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 06:34:16 2019 No.10851763

>>10851634
To mock medfags for their arrogance. Honestly she did pretty well for herself to reconstruct some basic results she needed for her work, that's fine. The meme is that she successfully published it as a novel contribution to the field of medicine and goes so far as to name it after herself "Tai's Method".

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:38:12 2019 No.10852001

>>10844917
Dark energy
Dark matter
Real numbers

For physics we are literally in a new alchemy age where people intentionally make shit up for phenomena they observe but they dont try to explain or explore it with the contemporary knowledge.
Instead they present it as a completely unrelated and new discovery.
Im sure that in a century or two people will die of laughter because scientist of our age are so far up their asses that they cant see further than their intestine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:42:12 2019 No.10852009 >>10844917 >Taylor approximations (any application involving them). >Assuming smooth space models.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:44:13 2019 No.10852015 >>10844958 That's the paper where the author essentially figured out what an integral was through the trapezoid rule or something right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:44:50 2019 No.10852017 >>10852001 >Real numbers Oh absolutely, add this baby to >>10852009

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 09:50:50 2019 No.10852030 >>10850288 >>10851763 kek I didn't know that there was an inside joke about it. I'm working on a paper (statistics/probability based) and am very tempted to cite that paper for the hell of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 18:30:47 2019 No.10853263 >>10852015 Anyone?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 18:58:40 2019 No.10853336 >>10853263 Yes it is, just fucking search for it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 19:06:06 2019 No.10853360 >>10847617 they didnt know how to Integrate for real???

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 31 19:06:35 2019 No.10853362 Beliving in general relativity

Anonymous Wed Jul 31 19:07:54 2019 No.10853367

>>10846235
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>>10847705
Humans being part of nature has fuck nothing to do with the fact that humans are destroying the rest of nature, faggot.
>>10852001
>For physics we are literally in a new alchemy age where people intentionally make shit up for phenomena they observe but they dont try to explain or explore it with the contemporary knowledge.
This has been going on for about a century.

Anonymous Thu Aug 1 00:41:56 2019 No.10854019
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>>10844917

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 00:42:59 2019 No.10854021 File: 18 KB, 593x386, Demon Core Diagram.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10854019

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 00:44:05 2019 No.10854024 File: 21 KB, 400x225, demon core .jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10854019 -

Anonymous Thu Aug 1 00:58:22 2019 No.10854053

Naming things after scientists. Especially with unit names. It does nothing to describe what the unit is about if you aren't already in the know. It also seems incredibly conceited.

>>10852009
I've been learning Taylor approximations lately and haven't used them much. What makes them a mistake?

Anonymous Thu Aug 1 14:52:44 2019 No.10855254

>>10844917
Polywater was a disaster many want to forget.
Acid imbalance as the cause of stomach ulcers is another disaster, causing decades of wrong and inefficient medication.
Cold fusion claimed a lot of careers. Surprisingly many survives Schoen and his forged papers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 15:12:09 2019 No.10855292 File: 131 KB, 512x512, 1562918043932.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 16:04:06 2019 No.10855398 >>10844917 Antipsychotics. Poop transplants.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 17:25:11 2019 No.10855593 File: 451 KB, 450x632, barrymarshall.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10855254 Let's give a shoutout to that mad aussie doctor, Barry Marshall, who downed some H. Pylori to prove bacteria were the cause of most stomach ulcers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 18:56:05 2019 No.10855849 >>10855292 this is exactly what i was thinking of. jesus christ.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 19:12:07 2019 No.10855878 >>10844917 abandoning soft eugenics

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 1 19:30:34 2019 No.10855908 >>10855292 what is that and what is the story behind it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 2 03:03:19 2019 No.10856721 >>10855908 Some ivy league smartass dropped a core causing massive radiation spike in the room killing himself and few people around him

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 2 03:38:19 2019 No.10856770 >>10844917 molten salt reactors

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 2 06:21:00 2019 No.10856989 >>10848243 read up on muon catalysed fusion

Anonymous Fri Aug 2 09:31:12 2019 No.10857243

>>10855593
I think of him every time the "97% agreement" pops up in global warming discussions. It makes me wonder what kind of scientists they are.

i remember a professor lectured us about this topic back in my undergrad years. Nature is not a voting democracy; nature just is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 2 18:24:50 2019 No.10858724 >>10856989 Wha?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 3 06:21:40 2019 No.10860080 >>10858724 Bumping

Anonymous Sat Aug 3 07:20:30 2019 No.10860172
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>>10855908
>>10856721
Louis Slotin:
>>10854019

He was a badass Canadian chemist and physicist who did research and built massive bombs at Los Alamos.

He did crazy shit that wouldn't be allowed today and probably wasn't allowed then -- like diving into the water of a nuclear reactor to repair a failing instrument...underwater...while the rector was operating.

One day, he was fucking around with the Demon Core, caused an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction, and died 9 days later.
Critical assembly was restricted to remote-control after that, and was never done by hand again.

He was buddies with Fermi and Eugene Wigner.
He was played by John Cusak in Fat Man & Little Boy, there have been poems and plays written about him.

Women wanted to be with him, men wanted to be like him, that kind of guy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 3 10:27:54 2019 No.10860530 >>10860172 >Women wanted to be with him >Men wanted to be like him >Neutrons wanted to be in him

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 3 10:30:09 2019 No.10860537 ether theory big bang theory dark energy theory expanding universe theory

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 3 10:32:45 2019 No.10860549 >>10860530 Keked and rekt

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 3 15:21:31 2019 No.10861236 File: 187 KB, 500x500, 3454tu34thhm mfw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10860530

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 4 04:13:19 2019 No.10862502 >>10848251 ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 4 16:51:07 2019 No.10863660 >>10861236 Why?

Anonymous Sun Aug 4 16:56:28 2019 No.10863674

>>10854021

This shit right here.

> well, we have to precisely measure energy output from this barely subcritical lump of weapons grade fissile material
> we're all physicists here, surely we can find a safe, scientifically sound and rational way to manipulate it
> LET'S HOLD IT OPEN WITH A FUCKING SCREWDRIVER!!!!!!

I swear to God, smart people are fucking retarded.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 4 16:59:24 2019 No.10863682 File: 175 KB, 267x200, +_91b5a8c90af57d1c0d0f8b2d711e4f3e.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10860530

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 4 17:31:38 2019 No.10863753 >>10847705 Wrong by definition, anything created or shaped by humanity is culture, including landscapes. I'm sorry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 4 22:08:00 2019 No.10864467 The Rosenhan experiment.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 04:27:21 2019 No.10865236 File: 46 KB, 576x325, skeptical baby .jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10863660

Anonymous Mon Aug 5 04:35:11 2019 No.10865245
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>>10863753
>anything created or shaped by humanity is culture, including landscapes
yes.
but it's not wrong to argue that beaver dams are part of beaver culture, for example.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 05:12:43 2019 No.10865299 >>10852001 >Real numbers Based schizo >>10852009 >Taylor approximations (any application involving them). Based schizo >>10854053 >What makes them a mistake? Nothing, unless you're a schizo

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 09:48:51 2019 No.10865625 >>10860530 nice

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 11:26:53 2019 No.10865815 >>10848251 Except you're a pleb and Einstein was right, initially he just didn't know why. It's the same as if he didn't realize the speed of light existed and backed into the value for c to finish special relativity

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 21:09:02 2019 No.10867205 >>10844917 That hair...

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 23:54:32 2019 No.10867507 String theory

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 6 00:14:07 2019 No.10867544 >>10844917 The fuckwad who shilled his vaccine while trying to defame others by making an easily disproven study on how all vaccines but his causes autism

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 6 13:28:48 2019 No.10868762 >>10867544 Who?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 6 13:30:14 2019 No.10868764 >>10844917 Muh solar energy

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 6 23:21:48 2019 No.10870162 >>10868764 What?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 6 23:34:17 2019 No.10870192 >>10867507 Where?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 7 12:45:41 2019 No.10871479 >>10868764 What are you talking about?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 7 13:00:12 2019 No.10871509 >>10844917 lobotomy?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 7 13:15:09 2019 No.10871556 Neuro miraculism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 8 02:29:44 2019 No.10873061 >>10871556 What is that?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 8 02:30:18 2019 No.10873062 >>10873061 Google it

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 8 18:14:00 2019 No.10874425 >>10873062 Rude

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 8 20:42:35 2019 No.10874736 >>10844917 String theory

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 9 09:46:38 2019 No.10875763 >>10874736 Why?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 9 12:28:21 2019 No.10875933 >>10875763 Roughly 50 years since it's inception and ZERO real world predictions so far.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 10 02:48:48 2019 No.10877374 >>10844917 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 10 11:32:29 2019 No.10878015 >>10865299 Your obsession with schizos makes this a pretty schizo post desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 00:48:20 2019 No.10879252 >>10844917 Scurvy believed to be an infectious disease. It lasted for centuries, countless of sailors got killed despite sailors themselves knowing the cause but being told to shut up, because science knew otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 00:53:25 2019 No.10879261 >>10844917 Scurvy believed to be an infectious disease. It lasted for centuries, countless sailors got killed despite sailors themselves knowing the cause but being told to shut up, because science knew otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 00:54:56 2019 No.10879262 NASA and their defense contractor's welfare programs. Holding space flight back decades.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 02:36:54 2019 No.10879402 >>10857243 >I think of him every time the "97% agreement" pops up in global warming discussio Why

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 06:16:52 2019 No.10879640 >>10853360 >Burger education

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 06:19:06 2019 No.10879643 >>10855593 Honestly, all the ethics committees are what really hold back science, especially medical science. This guy did something so unthinkable to the medical community and thus saved millions of lives.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 06:21:59 2019 No.10879649 >>10875933 But the math adds up!!!! 11111

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 06:24:03 2019 No.10879653 >>10879402 I'm guessing because it takes only one opposing result to overthrow accepted 'knowledge'. What the anon fails to understand is that it's not "97% of climate scientists agree", but actually "97% of studies come to the same conclusions".

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 22:28:05 2019 No.10881460 >>10879402 What is that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 11 22:29:27 2019 No.10881465 >>10844917 Global cooling, then global warming, currently climate change

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 12 14:32:10 2019 No.10882772 >>10881465 What’s wrong about them?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 12 16:38:31 2019 No.10883008 >>10844917 Not really scientific mistakes but rather scientific conclusions being ignored, but brainwashing and truth serum. None of those exist but people still believe they do.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 12 18:27:22 2019 No.10883182 >>10849941 Say what again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfuker.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 13 10:06:04 2019 No.10884684 >>10883182 w h a t

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 13 10:07:10 2019 No.10884686 >>10882772 They were initially wrong and kept getting made

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 13 10:47:09 2019 No.10884739 >>10865236 Lmao

Anonymous Tue Aug 13 18:32:24 2019 No.10885661

>>>/g/72309757
I mean this in addition to the fact that their default sensory mode makes it hard for them to focus on literally any macroscopic part of the environment while clothed.

>>10844917
Quantum physics, like most magic, is simply a delayed interpretation framework.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 13 21:29:57 2019 No.10886109 >>10844958 Now that's a bruh moment.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 14 11:13:47 2019 No.10887488 >>10847705 wish more people understood that

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 14 22:30:15 2019 No.10888888 >>10887488 And how would that change things?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 14 22:31:19 2019 No.10888895 >>10888888

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 14 22:33:19 2019 No.10888905 >>10888888 wasted.......

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 14 23:46:11 2019 No.10889103 >>10888888 damn what a GET

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 14 23:49:09 2019 No.10889113 >>10888888 CHECK THESE DUBS JANNIE FUCK NIGGERS FUCK JEWS FUCK JANNIES

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 15 04:29:47 2019 No.10889514 >>10888888 Racism would be normal Biology would be more important than muh feels in stuff like 'gender' debates ...

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 15 18:58:27 2019 No.10890904 >>10889113 Rude!

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 15 19:17:31 2019 No.10890967 File: 5 KB, 225x225, witnessed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10888888

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 16 04:26:30 2019 No.10892320 >>10890967 What?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 16 04:49:58 2019 No.10892343 File: 7 KB, 250x250, 1565248185386s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10888888 god damn...

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 16 05:13:38 2019 No.10892388 >>10888888 That's deep

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 16 06:47:14 2019 No.10892496 >>10888888 CHECKEM NOGS

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 16 14:59:48 2019 No.10893226 >>10847705 Normal people use the term "nature" to distinguish it from the anthropogenic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 02:07:49 2019 No.10894645 >>10892343 What?

Anonymous Sat Aug 17 15:09:09 2019 No.10896126

>>10879649
>But the math adds up!!!! 11111
Sure, the hypothesis has so many knobs and dials that you can readjust it to allow for just about any measurement that comes up. Trouble is, just like the warmers, the stringers make these adjustments AFTERWARDS, Real science required predictive powers, not endless patching.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 18 00:32:15 2019 No.10897531 bumpit

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 18 07:55:48 2019 No.10898062 >>10844917 relativity.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 18 08:10:39 2019 No.10898086 >>10846147 She's clearly pretty good at math for a normie. It's the supreme arrogance that's the fuckup.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 18 08:29:21 2019 No.10898125 >>10898062 Interesting, I guess you have a valid alternative

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 18 08:33:22 2019 No.10898130 >>10898125 >I guess you have a valid alternative Gravitational lensing isn't real, what you are seeing is the refractive effect of the solar wind surrounding the star.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 18 08:36:14 2019 No.10898132 >>10898130 Are you talking about general relativity only or also special relativity?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 18 08:38:11 2019 No.10898137 >>10898132 what would happen if you moved a microwave resonance cavity that was designed for timekeeping.... across the magnetic field lines of the earth?

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