Top 10 Lies of Science Taught at School
The mesmerizing discoveries of science have no boundaries. Science has revealed many facts about our very own planet earth and even things outside it. We are among the generations that are enjoying its fruits and the upcoming generation will be luckier than us. Beside all the miraculous inventions and exposures, there were lies behind some stories that we have been taught in school. I have composed a list of ten lies that I found biggest deception of science. Following is the list of these ten awful lies.
10. Duck’s quake does not echo
In the era of my early school days, I remember that my teachers taught me about animals and their characteristics. These were the days when I learnt that duck’s quake cannot be echoed but as I grow up, I came to know that this is not a fact. Actually the duck’s voice can echo and the claim is wrong. The reality is that human ear is not capable of hearing it due to some external conditions. This is now proved from many experiments in which duck’s sound is exposed into a room which is specially designed for sound reflection. The echo of duck’s sound was heard once which concludes that the myth is wrong and it is possible to hear duck’s echoed voice but with a little more effort.
9. Bats are blind
You might have gone through classes in which your teachers gave you lessons about bats blindness which is a false claim. This belief was set because this animal locates things it its surrounding through biosonar. This is a property of many kinds of animals by which they locate things through echo of their sound. Biosonar basically came from biological sonar. The fact is that bats are blessed with eyes and they can sight objects but they do not use them as a primary sense to position objects. This characteristic of bats let many scientist to call them blind which is a false statement.
8. CO2 is pollutant and injurious
You have heard statement’s like reduce the consumption and production of carbon dioxide and save the planet earth from global warming and many other proclamations about negative impact of carbon dioxide on environment because it is pollutant and injurious for health. But I came to know that this is not the fact. CO2 is not responsible for pollution. Other gas like nitrogen occupies 80 percent of atmosphere and if the atmosphere contains 100 percent of nitrogen then we would no longer be able to live healthily. Life on earth will be in danger without carbon dioxide since it is also very necessary. Plants require carbon dioxide in order to grow vigorously. Actually the toxic substances mixed with CO2 from industries are liable for pollution.
7. All people are different
All of us think that we are different from each other. This is because we have been taught this way. But the recent surveys discovered this fact that all human being are same as they behave and act in a similar manner when exposed to similar situations. This is a raging myth, out spread because of school teachings. This is only our appearance which distinguishes us but our behavioral attributes and reactions are same in same conditions. Many experiments have been taken to prove this myth and the result is that this is another fact of science which is proved to be wrong.
6. Human brain has five senses
This is most common fact which we learnt at school that human brain has five senses. This is nothing more than just another deceit of science. Human brain has more than five senses which range from 9 to 20. The old theory says that human brain has five senses that are sight, smell, taste, touch and listening power. The theory have been expanded by scientists and researchers in which they proved that human body also have other senses like sense of equilibrium and speed, nociception to feel pain, properiception to sense positioning and thermoception for temperature etc. These are not limited to these senses others may include hunger, itching, sense of time, sense of stomach need and urination and many more.
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Actually, even identical twins are different, not just their fingerprints but their genetic makeup is also different, this was recently discovered that they don’t share even the same genetic makeup because of a phenomenon known as hypermethylation. And yes blackholes do suck eveything, they have the strongest gravitational pull in the universe. They even suck smaller blackholes, and might suck earth one day. The writer even doesn’t know its pull is so power full that even light cannot escape the gravitational pull of a black hole. Its infinite. So great that it can create a space and time warp… Steven Hawkings called its a natural time machine. Its sucking power is infinite dude! Lame list.
Not only are individual people different but so are the human races, just as different breeds within a species are different.
I think the tongue map should be included in this list because taste buds of all kinds of taste are located throughout the tongue and not on a particular area.
7) “All of us think that we are different from each other. This is because we have been taught this way. But the recent surveys discovered this fact that all human being are same as they behave and act in a similar manner when exposed to similar situations. This is a raging myth, out spread because of school teachings. This is only our appearance which distinguishes us but our behavioral attributes and reactions are same in same conditions. Many experiments have been taken to prove this myth and the result is that this is another fact of science which is proved to be wrong.”
I disagree with this because somehow personality has not been included as a magnificent factor here. This is only the view of the behaviorists. What about the thinking, the ideas? How come some people are able to learn faster than others? I consider this to be a stereotypical image of humanity. It is overgeneralized.
If everyone is the same, why do attitudes differ? Why are there introverts and extroverts, arrogant and humble, passive and active. You see, many factors must be considered: cultural, developmental, genetic, environmental factors are to be considered. In the name of psychology and anthropology, people are different and unique. We may think and behave in similar ways but we can never think and behave in the exactly same ways. One must eliminate the cognitive bias of black-and-white thinking. We are the same in a general or universal perspective but we are unique in a very specific perspective.
Whilst most of these entries may have been taught at school, most of them were never supported by the actual Science community. The Ducks Quake(sic), the blind Bats, the ’5′ senses, Newtons apple & the Seasons being linked to the Earths closeness to the Sun may be misconceptions of people but not science. Ditto the Wall of China myth. Even the Black Hole & Water consumption are taking proper Science out of context.
Props for compiling this list (and including the global warming scam in here). I’m so sick of hearing this “it’s been proven by science!” bull crap.
Carbon dioxide is a good thing at the proper concentrations. When there is too much of it relative to other gases, that is when it becomes a pollutant. Our atmospheric concentration of CO2 depends on the Carbon Cycle, whereby carbon is constantly cycled through plants and animals through respiration and decay. Human beings are affecting this cycle in two very important ways. First we are taking vast amounts of carbon out of the ground where it was sealed away, and pumping it into our atmosphere at a staggering rate. The effect is similar to large scale volcanism. Secondly the enormous rate of deforestation has removed vast amounts of plant life that would have absorbed this CO2 and converted it into oxygen.