15 'Scientific' Beliefs from the Past (That Were Embarrassingly Wrong)

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15 'Scientific' Beliefs from the Past (That Were Embarrassingly Wrong)

Now, you might say that it’s wrong to make fun of what people used to believe before Steve Jobs invented science in his garage. And we agree! Yes, it is wrong -- but it’s also outrageously funny. C'mon, have you seen all the nonsense your ancestors came up with? They were pretty much asking us to laugh at them!

And hey, it’s not like your great-great-grandchildren won’t have a chuckle at your stupid ideas one day, right?

Map-makers thought that CALIFORNIA WAS AN ISLAND. In the early 1600s, Spanish explorers concluded that California was cut from the rest of North Ameri
Source: Wired

Medieval Europeans believed that LAMBS GREW ON PLANTS. Yes, of course they had seen lambs. They had never seen a cotton plant, though, as co
Source: Wired

A Roman naturalist wrote that ELEPHANTS HAD A RELIGION. Pliny the Elder wrote, among many other things, that elephants were the smartest land animals.
Source: Natural History, by Pliny the Elder
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