/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3277459]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_misconceptions

This page should be required reading for everyone in school.

[Anonymous No.3277463]

Wikipedia shouldn't even be mentioned in school.

[Anonymous No.3277475]

because wikipedia is GOD

[Anonymous No.3277476]

>Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. They will, however, occasionally unintentionally fall off cliffs when venturing into unknown territory, with no knowledge of the boundaries of the environment. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes (also staged by using multiple shots of different groups of lemmings) on a large, snow-covered turntable in a studio. Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff.[98] The misconception itself is much older, dating back to at least the late nineteenth century.

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.3277505]

> Glass is not a high-viscosity liquid at room temperature: it is an amorphous solid, although it does have some chemical properties normally associated with liquids. Panes of stained glass windows often have thicker glass at the bottom than at the top, and this has been cited as an example of the slow flow of glass over centuries. However, this unevenness is due to the window manufacturing processes used in earlier eras, which produced glass panes that were unevenly thick at the time of their installation. Normally the thick end of glass would be installed at the bottom of the frame, but it is also common to find old windows where the thicker end has been installed to the sides or the top. In fact, the lead frames of the windows are less viscous than the panes, and if glass was indeed a slow moving liquid, the panes would warp at a higher degree.[151][152]

I FUCKING TOLD YOU FAGGOTS

JESUS

[Anonymous No.3277507]

http://xkcd.com/843/

[Anonymous No.3277520]

>>3277459

bullshit article bro,
>There is also no evidence of any scientist during the Middle Ages incurring infractions only for their research.

Utter bullshit. Wikipedia Girdano Bruno. He was KILLED by the inquisition specifically for his astronomical/philosophical views about the nature of the universe...
and lets not forget Galileo

[Anonymous No.3277526]

>>3277520

There were no fucken scientists in the middle ages, science was in its infancy, it was a fetus....

Girdano Bruno is a great example of a pre-scientist being murdered by the Church.

They also suppressed the spread of knowledge, they suppressed reading, only men and mainly priests were allowed to read

[Anonymous No.3277535]

>>3277526
>In response to the Protestants, Roman Catholics developed a counter-image, depicting the High Middle Ages in particular as a period of social and religious harmony, and not "dark" at all.

LOL god damn catholics trying to say there were no dark ages

[Anonymous No.3277553]

>>3277520

terrible list, throw it out

[Anonymous No.3277669]

>>3277520
>implying the scientific community didn't agree with his work and made the church do their dirty work.

[Anonymous No.3277672]

>>3277520

Galileo was killed because he outright insulted the Catholic church in his research paper, alienating any of his possible allies. If he had kept his mouth shut about that much, they wouldn't have touched him.

[Jennie No.3277673]

>>3277669
>implying there aren't most religious idiots editing this article than sceintists.

[Anonymous No.3277685]

>>3277520

>lets not forget Galileo

Galileo wasnt imprisoned due to his astronomical/philosophical views but because he insulted the pope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo#Controversy_over_heliocentrism
>Unfortunately for his relationship with the Pope, Galileo put the words of Urban VIII into the mouth of Simplicio. However, the Pope did not take the suspected public ridicule lightly, nor the Copernican advocacy. Galileo had alienated one of his biggest and most powerful supporters, the Pope, and was called to Rome to defend his writings
>the name "Simplicio" in Italian also has the connotation of "simpleton"

[Anonymous No.3277692]

>>3277672

>Galileo was killed

maybe that was just a typo, but Galileo wasnt killed

[Anonymous No.3277700]

>>3277685
Oh come on that guy just can't take a joke

[Anonymous No.3277706]

>>3277692
Galileo was imprisoned until he died.

[Anonymous No.3277708]

>>3277700

[Anonymous No.3277755]

>>3277673
All right, then point out the unreliable sources given.
The church Jesuits and the pope were sympathetic to his cause, and supported his theories, for which he was facing scrutiny by the scientific community of the time. Until, that is, him and his lawyer insulted the Jesuits. The Jesuits took offence but did not take action. Then he insulted the pope, for which he was imprisoned, and then died.

[Anonymous No.3277773]

>>3277520
>He was burned at the stake by civil authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy for his pantheism and turned him over to the state, which at that time considered heresy illegal.

Indeed the church was at fault here, but not because of Gidarno's theories, but for his pantheistic beliefs.

[Anonymous No.3277792]

Interestingly enough, I did not see anything about the common cold under the diseases category. It seems a common belief is that a cold can be caused by a relatively rapid change in temperature. I.E: It's raining and cold as fuck one day, then the following day it's 100 degrees. Can this really happen /sci/?

[Anonymous No.3277817]

http://ncronline.org/node/11541

>‘From the moment that, with the abolition of the presupposition of an empty and immobile space, movement is no longer produced towards something, but there’s only a relative movement of bodies among themselves, and therefore the measurement of that [movement] depends to a great extent on the choice of a body to serve as a point of reference, in this case is it not merely the complexity of calculations that renders the [geocentric] hypothesis impractical? Then as now, one can suppose the earth to be fixed and the sun as mobile.”

[Anonymous No.3277857]

>According to the California Academy of Sciences, around 41% of U.S. adults mistakenly believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted.

just, wow America

[Anonymous No.3277892]

Again /sci/? I thought you were more intelligent than this.

Look dickheads, without the Catholic church preserving knowledge and passing down writing and libraries we would STILL be in the 'dark ages'. Modern universities are even based on the monastic order where monks would spend their days in writing and research. Seriously LOOK IT UP.

Your blind hatred of religion makes you stupid.

[Anonymous No.3277897]

>>3277755

Not the same guy here, but while I agree that insulting the Jesuits and the Pope probably didn't help his case (when is insulting a judge, even if you are right, a good idea?), but the reason why the Catholic Church had a problem initially with Galileo was because he stated his theory as fact as opposed to a model. A position which could not be backed up by evidence as there were other theories which could model the same evidence.

Example: Moons orbiting Jupiter could be explained using Tycho Brahe's model where the Sun orbits the Earth and everything else orbits the Sun.

So, in a nutshell, mistakes on both sides and correctness on both sides.

[Anonymous No.3277916]

>>3277892

>is an idiot
>Catholics preserved knowledge that supported them
>repressed new learning
>monasteries preserved knowledge and taught people
>did it against direct wishes of church
>fullonretard.jpg

[Anonymous No.3277964]

>>3277916
Citation required.

[Anonymous No.3277971]

>>3277897
But the thing is that there was never a "initially" part. The church sympathized with him because he was being scrutinized by other scientists (Kepler, I think?), but they began supporting the scientific community because of Galileo's insults to the jesuits. I don't know where it says that they didn't like Galileo because of his confidence in his theories though.