• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

What has mankind recently been wrong about? (I.E. Flat Earth)

Status
Not open for further replies.
Tenkai Star said:
Actually there was no belief that the world was flat. That is just a myth crated to promote Science over Christianity.

They did however believe that earth was the centre of everything.
Click to expand...


Oh yeah? Well someone needs to inform Sherri Shepard because she isn't sure, and she's on TV man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbizzLzcpnM

The best part is when she tries to defend herself by saying "I think about important things like feeding my kids" to which Barbra Walters responds "well I think you can do both".
 
Aspartame being unsafe.

I just got a comment last week about how dangerous it is to drink Coke Zero. The commenter then went for a smoke break.
Seriously.
 
Global Warming?

Scientists are at a loss to explain why it's seemingly halted over the last few years, and those leaked e-mails about a conspiracy to influence reports in favor of it existing don't help...
 
Teddman said:
Global Warming?

Scientists are at a loss to explain why it's seemingly halted over the last few years, and those leaked e-mails about a conspiracy to influence reports in favor of it existing don't help...
Click to expand...


oh christ.

SaskBoy said:
Didn't we use to think the Atom was the smallest particle just 50 or so years ago?

Man were we wrong.
Click to expand...

29ppv9h.jpg


Is it salt?
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
oh christ.
Click to expand...
It's possible that our ideas about Global Warming are way off base. This is something only hundreds of years of more data from a modern industrialized world will make clear.
 
permutated said:
I'm petrified that people like this exist.

I think I need to get off the net for the rest of the week, do a reality check, so fucking sad that I waste so much time on GAF.
Click to expand...

In fairness to the population of that forum, only a small handful actually seem to subscribe to the flat-earth belief. Most of the members are actively trying to disprove it.
 
atom.jpg


This right here. This model that you were taught in elementary school and middle school was how an atom was constructed? The one that was so neat and organized and pretty?

Completely fucking wrong.
 
keeblerdrow said:
atom.jpg


This right here. This model that you were taught in elementary school and middle school was how an atom was constructed? The one that was so neat and organized and pretty?

Completely fucking wrong.
Click to expand...


I had a teacher in primary school who explained gravity as a kind of by-product of centrifugal force.
 
keeblerdrow said:
atom.jpg


This right here. This model that you were taught in elementary school and middle school was how an atom was constructed? The one that was so neat and organized and pretty?

Completely fucking wrong.
Click to expand...


The Rutherford model? That was only considered accurate between 1911 and 1913 when it was replaced by the Bohr model.


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



Blackface said:
They thought no planets existed outside of our solar system.
Click to expand...

They did not think that. They imagined many other world, galaxies and perhaps even universes outside of our own.

But they could not see them. The could not verify and they could not prove it. The discovery of actual alien planets was preformed by modern tools and instruments. The theory has existed since the invention of telescopes.
 
oh good. I'm glad GAF has taken this opportunity to post things that they personally believe is bogus in an attempt to pass it off as the general concencus.
 
Up until 2007 theologians thought dead, unbaptized babies went to Purgatory instead of straight to heaven. Dumbasses.
 
TheRagnCajun said:
oh good. I'm glad GAF has taken this opportunity to post things that they personally believe is bogus in an attempt to pass it off as the general concencus.
Click to expand...

yeah. anything centered purely around belief is always going to turn out badly.
 
TheRagnCajun said:
oh good. I'm glad GAF has taken this opportunity to post things that they personally believe is bogus in an attempt to pass it off as the general concencus.
Click to expand...


29ppv9h.jpg


I meant flour. Not salt.
 
Kinitari said:
My sexual orientation. That's right Mrs. Hodgkins my grade 9-12 Drama and 11-12 English teacher. I am still not banging dudes.
Click to expand...

o_O Your teacher told you she thought you were gay? Can't she be sued for that?
 
mac said:
Up until 2007 theologians thought dead, unbaptized babies went to Purgatory instead of straight to heaven. Dumbasses.
Click to expand...


I always wondered about that. Imagined a stereotypical St. Pete at the gates, trying to explain to recently departed souls that he'd let them in, except their registration papers weren't filed by their parents.
 
It's looking more and more like the whole idea behind low fat dieting is complete bollocks, at least in regards to weight loss, and possibly also health benifits. There are still believers in the other camp, and it's still being debated, but the evidence is starting to mount against it.


In general, a lot of dieting ideas from the 60's and 70's are starting to be challenged heavily, because research isn't backing them up.
 
Not exactly related to the OP but I just read about the growing number of people against childhood vaccinations due to fears of causing autism. Man that was scary. When Jenny McCarthy, Don Imus and Joe Scarborough are the celebrity spokespeople for anti-vaccination you know there's a problem.
 
ChefRamsay said:
Aspartame being unsafe.

I just got a comment last week about how dangerous it is to drink Coke Zero. The commenter then went for a smoke break.
Seriously.
Click to expand...

The Jury is actually still out on Aspartame. Many places in the world have done studies that say it's unsafe, including Canada. the American FDA say it's safe (they also say bovine is safe, when it's proven to promote cancer).

They used to think Asbestoses was safe also. So, we will figure it out eventually.
 
Krowley said:
It's looking more and more like the whole idea behind low fat dieting is complete bollocks, at least in regards to weight loss, and possibly also health benifits. There are still believers in the other camp, and it's still being debated, but the evidence is starting to mount against it.


In general, a lot of dieting ideas from the 60's and 70's are starting to be challenged heavily, because research isn't backing them up.
Click to expand...


It's basically calories and training. If you avoid fat, you're likely to get less calories. The benefits for heart and circulation are proven, however.
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
It's basically calories and training. If you avoid fat, you're likely to get less calories. The benefits for heart and circulation are proven, however.
Click to expand...

I don't want to get into a huge debate about it, but there are studies recently that show more benefit for blood pressure and cholesterol on the Atkins diet, the Mediterranean diet, and the caveman diet, all of which are very high fat. They all three soundly defeat the low fat diet in every category.

Here is an article about one of the studies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/16/health/main4266414.shtml

As I said, this is still being debated and there are tons of other people that disagree, but I think it's probably going to fall very soon. Calories also matter, but maybe not as much as what kinds of micro nutrients you're taking in.
 
Yeah, that stuff about eating fat making you fat is bullshit, yeah?




Here's my research for you: take a look inside mcdonalds.
 
Krowley said:
It's looking more and more like the whole idea behind low fat dieting is complete bollocks, at least in regards to weight loss, and possibly also health benifits. There are still believers in the other camp, and it's still being debated, but the evidence is starting to mount against it.


In general, a lot of dieting ideas from the 60's and 70's are starting to be challenged heavily, because research isn't backing them up.
Click to expand...
Well, I lost 60 lbs in a summer from a self-imposed low fat diet/better portion control. I will gladly concede that the portion control was the biggest factor in helping me lose weight, but I didn't even count calories rigurously, I paid much more attention to just watching my sodium content (for heart reasons) and keeping my saturated fat intake around 12-15 grams a day.

It was hard. haha.
 
Blackface said:
The Jury is actually still out on Aspartame. Many places in the world have done studies that say it's unsafe, including Canada. the American FDA say it's safe (they also say bovine is safe, when it's proven to promote cancer).

They used to think Asbestoses was safe also. So, we will figure it out eventually.
Click to expand...

I think we have. Asbestos is bad and aspartame is safe as long as you don't consume your own body weight once a month. You can't really say, "we can never know because of examples like asbestos," when though decades of research we've proven asbestos harmful and the other benign.


From wiki
Based on government research reviews and recommendations from advisory bodies such as the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food and the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, aspartame has been found to be safe for human consumption by more than ninety countries worldwide.[
Click to expand...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame
 
T Dawg said:
Yeah, that stuff about eating fat making you fat is bullshit, yeah?




Here's my research for you: take a look inside mcdonalds.
Click to expand...

I see people eating tons of refined carbohydrates, lots of fructose, and things fried in rancid vegetable oil. Not sure how you can demonize fat using McDonald's as justification.
 
mac said:
The Rutherford model? That was only considered accurate between 1911 and 1913 when it was replaced by the Bohr model.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_model
Click to expand...
I believe that is an image of the Bohr model, although really it could be either. Depictions of the models don't really represent the model itself.

That image is a relatively good image of a basic atom with a filled s orbital, well if you removed the electron paths. Of course, it doesn't show all of the elementary particles but it is quite a good representation and isn't really wrong.

It isn't incorrect, it just doesn't tell the whole story.

To call it completely wrong is completely wrong.
 
Sir Fragula said:
No they weren't. The Greeks knew and spread that knowledge from as far back as 600BCE!

Pythagoras believed it. Aristotle pretty much proved it.
Click to expand...

Holy shit, I can't believe it took this long for someone to post this.

There was never a time that we know of when people thought the world was flat. Besides, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to look out on the horizon and see it bend.
 
dunno if mentioned but Tectonic Plate movement if a recent thing...it wasn't until the 50s-60s that it became accepted that the crust moved.
 
A lot of medicine.


The annals of medicine are littered with treatments and tests that became medical doctrine on the slimmest of evidence, and were then declared sacrosanct and beyond scientific investigation. In the 1980s and ’90s, for example, cancer specialists were convinced that high-dose chemotherapy followed by a bone-marrow transplant was the best hope for women with advanced breast cancer, and many refused to enroll their patients in randomized clinical trials that were designed to test transplants against the standard—and far less toxic—therapy. The trials, they said, were unethical, because they knew transplants worked. When the studies were concluded, in 1999 and 2000, it turned out that bone-marrow transplants were killing patients.

Another recent example involves drugs related to the analgesic lidocaine. In the 1970s, doctors noticed that the drugs seemed to make the heart beat rhythmically, and they began prescribing them to patients suffering from irregular heartbeats, assuming that restoring a proper rhythm would reduce the patient’s risk of dying. Prominent cardiologists for years opposed clinical trials of the drugs, saying it would be medical malpractice to withhold them from patients in a control group. The drugs were widely used for two decades, until a government-sponsored study showed in 1989 that patients who were prescribed the medicine were three and a half times as likely to die as those given a placebo.
Click to expand...
 
Frank the Great said:
Holy shit, I can't believe it took this long for someone to post this.

There was never a time that we know of when people thought the world was flat. Besides, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to look out on the horizon and see it bend.
Click to expand...
Actually, the Egyptians believed that the world was flat and the sky held up by massive pillars. They explored a bit (mainly through conquest) and found out that the world was bigger than they thought so they just "moved the posts" further out.

Sea-faring nations are much more likely to have figured out that the world is round. In Columbus' time, they used navigation techniques that assumed and depended on the Earth being round. The reason everyone thought Columbus was an idiot wasn't that they thought they'd fall off the edge of the world, but that his estimate for the Earth's circumference was way shorter than the established consensus, resulting in him thinking he'd find a shortcut to India by sailing west.
 
Teddman said:
Global Warming?

Scientists are at a loss to explain why it's seemingly halted over the last few years, and those leaked e-mails about a conspiracy to influence reports in favor of it existing don't help...
Click to expand...

No they aren't. You should ask one.

I think Einstein supplanting Newton is a pretty good one.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

  • Poll
Everyone on Earth has to press a button
8 9 10 11 12
584
794
Meicyn replied
What has been the worst year of your adult life?
47
762
Baemono replied
The DCU's Brainiac has been cast
12
475
SJRB replied
Star City (For All Mankind spinoff) - Official Teaser
18
469
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt replied
A second Sphinx and a massive underground complex has possibly been located in Egypt
38
468
Brigandier replied
Top Bottom