“So nothing really changed, except you don’t ask your aunt anything anymore. You still talking to her?”
I had an argument with a teacher in middle school who shared the crap of, “If you swallow gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years.” The kids told me I must be wrong, because the teacher said it so he must be right.
I was so pissed that I came in the next day with three different sources saying that it was a myth. He quietly admitted the truth to me, but refused to tell the class.
I get being frustrated with kids chewing gum in class, but if you have to lie to get them to follow rules, that’s a failure as a teacher. He was a science teacher, no less. If anybody should be open to a student pulling up sources for a claim, or to admitting they learned something new and they were wrong before, it should be a science teacher.
Thanks, Mr H. Way to prove to me that even “cool” teachers care more about controlling kids than being truthful.
We were led to believe we’d die if we ate a single apple seed until about 1995, when I observed my FIL eat an entire apple, core, seeds, and all, which obviously blew my mind.
I was taught that the white race was superior and that there was going to be a huge race war (one side of the family) and then Jesus was going to come back and murder everybody (other side).
Now someone’s aunt marge in another country does it.
We’re still there, aunt Marge is just called Grok now.
I don’t want to think that badly about aunt Marge. How about Gemini? Marge wasn’t gropey
Tbf, some blood is blue, it just tends to be a few types of invertebrates that have that blood.
next thing you’ll be telling me that some animals can change their sex.
And those aliens on the historical documents
Now an LLM has parsed Aunt Marge’s Facebook posts into it’s knowledge bank and regurgitates it to everyone searching online for an answer.
I’d prefer it if they actually worked that way
We were taught blood was blue in school, not just once, in at least two grades. Not in the book mind you, but from the teachers’ mouths.
The 7th grade science book did teach us gamma rays move faster than the speed of light, which is bullshit.
The worst misinformation we got was that after erections (which functionally are made via blood flow) boys pee out the blood. Like Jesus fuck lady, what is wrong with your husband.
That’s an odd one, since you’d think peeing or not peeing blood would be very easy to verify.
Wat
Gamma rays do travel faster than light through some media, but obviously not faster than c, the speed of light in a vacuum.
Gamma rays are photons like light no? Is the speed in a medium related to its energy/frequency? Or am I misunderstanding something
Well yeah, the media was that one kid’s 7th grade science book
by my grade 7, i had already learned all about dalkon shield and iuds, silicone breast implants and their risks, rely tampons and toxic shock syndrome, roe v wade, aids and homosexuality…
that was just the sex ed units from the regular nightly news.
OK
Came here to say the same thing, for years I was believing my blood was blue before it hit oxygen…
I was going to add the “hitting oxygen” is an important part of the blue blood myth back then.
Holy shit.
As someone who does not possess the knowledge, is blood white? The deoxygenated channels?
Plasma separated from red blood cells is sorta yellowish beige. At least in IV bags.
Blood separates into white, yeah. That’s basically my understanding of (a type of) pus formation.
Deoxygenated, venous blood is dark red. Oxygenated, arterial blood is bright red.
I was taught the “blood is blue” myth also. My mom was livid, since her job involved drawing lots of blood, starting IVs etc.
It’s actually green
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That one guy in Carbon Creek is an outlier and should not be counted.
Nothing has really changed since then.
Just where you get your misinformation.
And with AI and anti-science grifters, we’re back to that world!
We never really left
