Scientific Concepts You're Taught in School Which are Actually Wrong

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I remember when I did my first year college courses and so much of it was the teacher saying something akin to, “You were taught this in high school but it’s not correct. This is what the science actually says.” Many of my fellow students were very resistant, confused, and upset about it.

When teaching General Chemisty in a University I tell my students that most of what they will get in this class are: "Lies, half-truths, and approximations." The truth is just to difficult.

So people just misinterpreted an army manual that stated "WHEN FULLY CLOTHED" we lose the majority of heat through our head and neck - whoever is writing your presentations needs some help.

When I was little, my older brother convinced me that our blood is really blue and it just turns red the instant it touches oxygen, which is why we never get to see the blue. He proved it by showing me the veins in my forearm. I was convinced. Fast forward to 7th grade science class and the teacher is talking about blood and why it's red. I almost raised my hand, with the intention of correcting my teacher, when it suddenly occurred to me that my brother might be fucking with me. 🤣 I'll never forget that and it's one of my fondest memories. 🥰

The frustration with telling people about the extra senses is that they all want to lump it in with just touch, even with proprioception they will argue you are feeling your body through the touch with air and what not.

Babies lose a lot of body heat through their heads, relative to adults. But only because babies head are proportionally larger than adults. It's not a huge difference but it is important to cover their heads when outside on really cold days.

I think that blue blood part is a myth confined to the Anglo-American cultural space. I'm from Eastern Europe and I haven't heard about this in my entire life. Not as kids, not ever.

I did a “Taste Map” test in school. & I was told I was wrong when I refuted this idea. Ok.. sure… whatever

My mother had a blood draw done and her blood was pink ... she had leukemia. If your blood looks anything but what it should look like, it's bad.

"No con-senses on how many senses we have" is how I heard it, whether intentional or not, well done

Wait, didn't the carrot myth get started as a wartime ploy to keep the Germans from finding out that Bletchley Park had broken the enigma code?

I remember my science teachers in school being pretty honest. They told us alot of what we would learn is simplified and thus wrong. But it's the building blocks you need, to pursue science at a higher level.

On the topic of the senses, if we're going to divide up touch, pain, and temperature into separate senses on the grounds of their being mediated by different kinds of sensory nerves (when all three would have been included under the umbrella of "touch" in the Aristotelian model), it's only fair that we do the same for light vs. color vision. Or for that matter, even the three different wavelengths of colored light we have cone cells for! On the other hand, if you think saying we actually have four different senses under the umbrella classically called "vision" is silly, perhaps it's also fair to say it's silly to say we actually have three different senses under what was classically called "touch". (Balance and proprioception, on the other hand, are indeed new discoveries.)

the first time a teacher explained evolution to me she said it wrong!! she implied that traits gained during life will be passed down (like if i lift weights my kids will be swole). years later when properly learning about evolution, we also covered how Darwin and subsequent genetic understanding literally proved those kinds of theories wrong and it made me retrospectively angry at that first teacher

My elementary school teacher was an idiot. She insisted that the American Civil War was fought in the 1840’s. And that the dinosaurs were killed by the ice age. After getting marked wrong on tests for saying otherwise, I told this to my “wonderful supporting” parents, they actually took the teacher’s side: saying that I should have wrote what the teacher said, as I would have gotten those tests questions “correct”.

My god, this is exactly what pissed me off beyond belief, why I was taught things one year in science, then the next year, to be told that was wrong, to be told what was actually reality, then the next year..."no this is how it is" I was like "WHY THE BLOODY HELL NOT TEACH ME THE KNOWN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE?????" The carrot thing I do know was a disguise when radar was invented....

2:58 Simon has done so many of these videos, he seems to have developed multiple brains😄

With regards to Mech and Duvall's work, there genuinely is no such thing as an alpha male: only sociopaths and malignant narcissists who demand to be worshipped like gods.

The tastebud map is more wrong even than presented in the video. You have taste buds all around your mouth, especially including the inside of your cheeks and your soft palate. I’m particularly appreciative of this having lost 90% of my oral tongue to cancer in the last dozen years. Also particularly aware of it: I can sense taste happening in those parts of my mouth much more than I used to.