One of many examples of something that doctors thought was correct and years later were proven totally wrong

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• CallMeAl@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  J.W. Conway was not a doctor, psychologist, or scientist and he self-published this book.

  Doctors at the time did not think of left-handedness as a problem. It was a cultural and religious belief that made people force their kids to be right-handed.

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  • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can confirm, they took that shit from me 🤬

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• icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Happened to me too. Was threatened with violence of varying magnitudes by school teachers to fix it or else.

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