When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.
Can you think of any now?
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Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 36 minutes ago
Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
Alteon@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I always understood it as your immune system gets weaker from being in the cold and makes it easier for viruses and such to propogate in your body. We’re constantly fighting off minor infections and disease, and thankfully our immune systems are pretty strong…cold does not help it.
I’d say this one is sort of true…in the right context.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 27 minutes ago
I thought the opposite. That when you’re cold, and your body releases Norepinephrine, that it re-enforces your immune system.
Which makes sense to me from a personal experience. I like to run around in the snow in tshirt and shorts and embrace the cold. I very rarely catch colds and always thought it was genetics and not a product of environment
Srootus@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
My mum says this all the time, haven’t the heart to correct her though
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
‘‘You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time!’’
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s a collaborative site.
danekrae@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I like it, though there wasn’t a single one of the false facts that I was taught in schools.
“Dinosaurs shed their skin all at once like snakes”
“Girls are naturally not as good at math as boys”
I don’t mean to be rude, but If this was taught in your school, everyone around you is probably a moron.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah, the concept is nice, but it tells me that the Big Bang doesn’t explain what happened before it (the leading hypothesis is that the Big Bang started time, so there is no “before”) and sources a Wikipedia article on spiders. Then, it cites the common myth about Daddy Longlegs being highly venomous, says that that wasn’t dispelled until 2020, and then cites a fucking BuzzFeed listicle.
Kushan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah I didn’t get taught any of the stuff mentioned for me either.
One thing I did notice that wasn’t mentioned was the tongue map, that I was taught about in the 90’s - you know the one that said that your tongue has different areas for detecting different kinds of tastes - sweet at the front tip, sour at the back, that kind of thing. All bullshit.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah I think that the “you have to discharge your batteries entirely before charging them” would be a better fit, even though it wasn’t false at the time, but the technology changed
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“Planet X (Planet 9) exists and explains gravitational pull”
Weird conspiracy theories were not taught at my school.
Also:
In 2017, a photograph appeared to prove that Amelia Earhart survived her plane crash and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. However, it was later proven that the photo was taken two years before her disappearance, leaving the mystery unsolved.
Updated understanding emerged around 2010
The updated understanding emerged 7 years before the photo appeared?
This is why websites need downvotes.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Where did you go to school? I’ve never heard of either of those before.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Cool but flawed website.
Earlier times dont include myths that are on later years.
There is no overlap in myths between 1990 and 1970-80 but there is with the 60sw
“Sugar causes hyperactivity in children” is mentioned to have been corrected around 1995 but stops making the list from 1980 onward.
I wanna recommend it to others but i cant in this state.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
Just put in 2010 and most of everything it said is incredibly obvious. Plus some of the dates of updated sources seem really incorrect. For example, one of them is it is a myth that most oxygen comes from trees, but I very distinctly remember my math teacher of all people saying in 2006 or 2007 that when he was in school he corrected people that it’s mostly from plankton. And even if I’m misremembering this, he definitely said something about it being from plankton in those years, but it says the updated sources are from 2020.
It says that it is a myth that the big bang theory explains where the universe came from but in 2020 we found out it doesn’t explain what came before. Like… No? That’s always been what it is. Sure, it’s always been a Christian talking point to sort of say that, but then why say 2020?
But I guess it’s hard to really gauge what should and shouldn’t be included. I remember my 5th grade teacher telling me that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. I don’t really remember exactly what all she said and if she got deeper into Lost Cause rhetoric than that, but she definitely said Lee was a “good man.”
smeg@feddit.uk 1 day ago
What you were taught
“Mobile phones will never replace desktop computers”
What we know now
Mobile devices became the primary computing platform for billions of people worldwide.
That isn’t a response to the initial statement at all, which is very much an opinion or prediction rather than any claim to be a fact. I’m suddenly feeling pretty sceptical about this website.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
IMO, that site needs more cold war propaganda myths.
For example:
Myth: The US won WWII
Truth: The biggest battles of the last few years of WWII were between Germany and the USSR, and the USSR won, pushing the German army back to Berlin.
–
Myth: Unions are communism, and therefore bad.
Truth: It is thanks to Unions that we work 8 hour days instead of 12 hour days, and that we have a 2 day weekend. They’re an essential part of balancing the power of the rich against the power of the workers.
–
Myth: Unions hold back the most skilled, so if you’re skilled or smart you shouldn’t be in a union.
Truth: The best actors in the world are members of SAG-AFTRA. They negotiate deals where they make tens of millions per movie. The union doesn’t hold them back. It just means that when the film studios try to screw over the less powerful actors and the union votes to strike, the rich and powerful actors need to do their part to help the less powerful actors out.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 day ago
Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet due to not clearing its orbital path.
Why would they just lie about Pluto like that?
#Pluto4Lyf
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
That’s messed up!
Arioxel@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Part of the reason Pluto’s classification hit so hard in the US is that it’s the only ‘planet’ ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.
US pride, again.
trolololol@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It’s in fact a teenager planet and it doesn’t clean his room. Once it does it will be bumped back to planet.
We’re doing this for his own good.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
heydo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Years since graduation:
Oh fuck this site!
Goddamn I’m old
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Both 1960 and 2020 are showing the same 6 facts, and the facts shown were debunked years before 2020
noxypaws@pawb.social 1 day ago
Cool site but sadly the link for “Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn” being debunked is both dead and missing from archive.org
I’d really like to know more since I’ve very recently been learning about very similar processing modalities for ADHD brains
Still, cool site and resource!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 6 minutes ago
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago.
It certainly wasn’t
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though; you could celebrate:
- The first humans to cross the Bering Strait, which is a long extinct lineage
- The earliest ancestors to settle the Americas, whom we don’t even know the descendants of
- The first Europeans to reach the Americas, ie Leif Erikson (Polynesia did it much later)
- The first people to cross an ocean to get to the Americas, most likely Polynesians but possibly Columbus
- The first Europeans to form a permanent settlement in the Americas, ie Columbus
- The founders of the forerunner to the US, ie Walter Raleigh & co
- The founding fathers for founding the US
And plenty more I’m sure you could come up with
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I think the biggest one that was drilled into us constantly, especially about WW2 and Nazis was
“ Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”
This was a load of shit as evidenced by what is going on in the USA right now and other parts of the world. The real lesson should have been to push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
thejoker954@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That quote is being proven true right now though?
People don’t really remember what happened with the nazis. Most of the people who actually lived that past are dead now.
And the vast mojority of people lack enough empathy/understanding to be able to ‘walk a mile in their shoes’ as it were and extrapolate the horrors from the most readily available histories.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I had this really awesome kind of angry and nihilistic history teacher in H.S. who offered an elective course that studied the repeated patterns through history leading up to genocide. It covered Armenia, Rwanda, and the Holocaust.
I don’t know if it was just the fact that we looked at the repeated overlaps between human behavior vs just memorizing historical events, but if more people took a course like Crimes against Humanity maybe they would be able to spot the clear patterns of human behavior that somehow happen over and over again.
push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
Yep, the Holocaust didn’t happen overnight. It’s always starts as a slow slide into genocide, but once it picks up steam it turns into an avalanche. It drives me nuts that people keep pretending we should be entertaining any of this as just normal politics. The reaching across the aisle bullshit was insane a year ago (and really 10 years ago), but at this point it is literally enabling this shit to happen. You’re a collaborator.
Srootus@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
bebabalula@feddit.dk 10 hours ago
USA is a democracy
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 7 minutes ago
Don’t worry friend. We shall let you go on vacation to learn the truth of the history you should really know. Also, it is not vacation.
drath@lemmy.world 58 minutes ago
ijon_the_human@lemmy.world 1 day ago
bstix@feddit.dk 1 day ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_common_misconceptions
The history list was most interesting in my opinion.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Obligatory “there’s a xkcd for anything, isn’t it?”
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
shortypants@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
1987 Edison was a genius and invented everything, Turns out he was actually the Elon Musk of his time.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Edison being a giant dick of a patent troll is one of the main reasons Hollywood exists. I’m not sure Musk has anything that impactful on his resume.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’d say PayPal was a pretty big deal but I’m not sure what his level of involvement was
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Intellectual jokes like this are one of the reasons I’m on Lemmy.
sharkaccident@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Don’t get me started. He did not invent the lightbulb. Did he “perfect” it? Maybe? But only after trial and error of 100’s of filaments including human hair.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
AND he electrocuted an elephant.
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Oh, it wasn’t just elephants. He did it with dogs, monkeys, etc. This wasn’t a one-time thing, he provided this “demonstration” on a variety of occasions.
All because he wanted the world to adopt his standard for electrical transmission, direct current (DC) instead of Nikola Tesla’s alternating current (AC).
Tesla was a brilliant engineer and inventor. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing (though later he did get a little nutty). Edison just yelled at engineers he hired to do work for him.
I am so sad that Tesla’s name has been ruined. He was wildly intelligent and though he was a prominent figure in his prime, he died broke. It’s not bad enough that he went out like that, now we have a fucking clown pissing on his grave by using his name to sell his bullshit nazimobiles.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
He was trying to prove that electricity was dangerous. Even at the time though a lot of people pointed out that the voltage used was not the voltage used in mains electrics so it was basically a pointless thing to do and people quite upset about the elephant. He did receive a fair amount of bad press for it.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
A short list of things you didn’t realize were false, stolen from the most recent episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast:
- “The original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds lead to a mass panic.” – It did not. However, rumors of a panic spread via newspaper op-eds about how it was a bad idea to get your news on any other medium besides newspapers. Citation: slate.com/…/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-…
- “You can boil a frog in a pot by gradually raising the temperature of the water.” – This doesn’t work; frogs just jump out when they get uncomfortable. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
- “Lemmings march off cliffs to their deaths because they blindly follow one another.” – They don’t. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions
- “…but I saw it in a Disney documentary!” – Nope. Turns out the filmmakers paid local kids to capture a bunch of lemmings, spin them around to make them dizzy, then manually threw them off cliffs and filmed it. Citation: hyperallergic.com/…/white-wilderness-disney-natur…
PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 1 day ago
I actually learned the lemmings thing from the windows 95 era PC game “Lemmings”. This is also how I learned that lemmings have green hair!
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 day ago
fun fact, lemmings was developed by a little studio called DMA designs, which later changed name to Rockstar North, and is nowadays most known for the GTA games.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
PC game “Lemmings”
Best game of all time IMHO. “I’ll just try one more level” followed by the sunrise.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They are skilled with bricklaying and mining tools too ⛏️
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Let’s go! Door creaks
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I thought everyone knew the lemmings thing was made up. But it’s become a bit of a meme nonetheless.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
More extracts from that same podcast:
In each case, right up until the moment I received evidence to the contrary, all this misinformation, these supposed facts, felt true to me. I had believed them for decades and I had accepted them in part because they seemed to confirm all sorts of other ideas and opinions floating around in my mind. Plus they would have been great ways to illustrate complicated concepts, if not for the pesky fact that they were, in fact, not facts.
That’s one of the reasons why common misconceptions and false beliefs like these spread from conversation to conversation and survive from generation to generation and become anecdotal currency in our marketplace of ideas. They confirm our assumptions and validate our opinions and, thus, they raise few skeptical alarms. They make sense and they help us make sense of other things.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
I don’t think there’s a time when everyone knows something
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TIL Lemmings are an actual creature and not just from the PC game Lemmings! I’m guessing that’s why it’s named “Lemmy” and then has a logo of a rodent. I just thought it was a random name and a drawing of a mouse this whole time.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 day ago
On the lemmings one, have you never seen hexbear?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The War of the Worlds broadcast didn’t cause mass hysteria, but it did cause some people to go outside and shoot at the nearest water tower.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What about the BBc documentary with the spaghetti trees?
WanderFree@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
The United States is a constitutional Republic/democracy with 3 co-equal branches of government…
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I mean it technically still is. de jure at least
It’s like this:
ImageWe need the “under an fascist hybrid regime with a judicial junta (aka: “supreme court”) and a mostly rubber-stamp legislature filled with cultists” to the label in the USA page.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
I’m not sure that Russia really counts as anything other than an actual dictatorship. It’s not like there’s a free and open choice and people just keep voting against their own interests like in the US, the elections are of course rigged and there are no opponents anyway. Anyone that might stand against him gets assassinated.
Of course Trump probably will try and go that route as well, but he hasn’t done it yet, and he hasn’t consolidated his power there are still people in positions of some authority pushing back against him.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
it’s all just fascism with chrome plating and a spoiler
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I don’t care if it’s wrong, Marilyn Manson had his ribs removed so he could blow himself
Flobaer@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
They taught you that in school?
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
I learned that in middle school. It was from a kid on the bus but it was still middle school.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
lololol
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
He responded to this rumor in his autobiography saying “If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I’m gonna call the surgeon in the morning”
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Brian Warner can fuck right off tho
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The mitochondria better still be the power house of the cell. Or we are going to flip some tables and burn the place down.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 day ago
The very architecture of the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then) made it impossible to take over, and traffic would naturally route around any damaged links or nodes.
Google and CloudFlare have since proven that sonsabitches with enough money can subvert it completely, and it only takes a few dudes dragging an anchor from a boat to disconnect entire countries for weeks and months.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Class of 2003.
Food wheel was taught in elementary school. As were the taste bud “zones” and the American Dream.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The one that immediately springs to mind doesn’t exactly fit the criteria, because it wasn’t even true at the time that I was taught it in public school in Texas. But my history teacher taught me that no real historian called it the “American Civil War,” and that it was correctly called “The War of Northern Aggression.” And, of course, although the Confederacy did want to keep slavery legal, their actual central reason for seceding was “states rights.”
Like I said, both of those are simply lies. Only propagandists call it “The War of Northern Aggression”, and it was always explicitly about slavery.
The sad thing is that I believed and repeated these lies for years after that. Note that, like most people, I didn’t have access to the internet to easily check things myself. Since at the time I had zero interest in reading about history, it was difficult to correct my knowledge.
It has demonstrated, to me at least, the importance of keeping propaganda away from children. The more you lie to children, the harder it will be for them to become functioning adults.
ninjabard@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I guess the big one for me is the whole Mozart for babies thing. It wasn’t Mozart’s music making babies and young children smarter, it was a combination of more affluent parents or at least parents with college plus educations having time and income to spend on enrichment activities.
etherphon@midwest.social 20 hours ago
Work hard and you will be rewarded and taken care of. LOLLLLLLLLLL.
nuggie_ss@lemmings.world 1 day ago
That whole “got milk” campaign was a load of bullshit.
It turns out only about 30% of the global human population is able to even digest milk.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
For me it’s the regions of the tongue thing. It never made any sense, and a 6 year old with a sugar cube could have disproved it. Yet they taught it in schools for years.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Five senses; taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, acceleration, temperature, body configuration, pain, balance, time, hunger…
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can think of a few.
- That T-Rex’ vision was based on movement.
- Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.
- What we were taught as the ‘reservation’ system more closely resembled concentration camps, and indigenous people were given a choice between death marches and war. -That the US military was actually on the wrong side of nearly every civilian movement for greater rights, from suffrage, to labor, and now freedom of speech.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
We had to write angry letters to our children’s school about 5 years ago to get them to stop teaching taste regions. It’s really baffling.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Left brain/right brain pseudoscience
derry@midwest.social 1 day ago
Alpha wolf is a lie.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I didn’t graduate highschool though
shplane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The US south treated their slaves well. Even in high school, I was like “mmmm you suuuure about that?”
wer2@lemmy.zip 16 minutes ago
When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s