Low-fat diets are the healthiest; fat makes you fat and causes heart disease
Healthy fats are essential; excess carbs/sugar often worse; quality over low-fat
Everyone was taught things that turned out to be wrong. Here are four of them.
Neanderthals were dumb, brutish cavemen
Sophisticated culture, art, tools; interbred with modern humans
Christopher Columbus discovered America and proved the Earth is round
Natives there millennia; round Earth known since ancient Greeks; Vikings earlier
Pluto is the ninth planet in our solar system
Pluto is a dwarf planet; the solar system has eight planets
Those are everyone’s. What were you taught? Enter the year you were born and see the ones that were corrected during your lifetime.
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For most of history, the answer to “how do we know?” was whoever was in charge. A king. A church. A textbook. You were supposed to accept it. We got better when we started treating those answers as theories — guesses that have to survive being proven wrong. That is why this site exists. Every card is something that was taught as fact, then replaced by a better explanation. Being wrong on purpose is the method.
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