Community Notes strikes again

submitted by xoenix from i.imgur.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Haylstorm 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

How is science ever settled? I remember back when I was in school they'd point out it's accurate for what we know now but for all we know another discovery tomorrow could completely upheave everything we think we know. Was always an interesting thought experiment that one discovery could make all the concepts and ideas that we think of as fact to be wrong. Very unlikely but possible.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It’s never settled, but…. I would be very surprised if we ever found an alternative to the germ theory of disease.

I think it’s retarded for anyone to say “it’s settled science” especially when it clearly isn’t as medical organisations in other countries are abruptly reversing course and issuing warnings.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Tbf we say that with current knowledge which is why it's so interesting!

Like I cannot picture anything overturning it but things of that scale have happened before. Same with many things but usually it's more refining current theories than blowing everything we think apart. It is just crazy to think about the possibility that we may have fields that we've built on the wrong thing that could completely change how we view it going forward however slim that may be.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I agree with you.

And, I have my fingers crossed for “The Ghost Theory of Disease”.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Would be interesting and weird if one of the old ones came back in. "hey guys turns out the miasma theory was right all along, it IS the bad smells making people sick!" that or our humours being out of balance would really confuse me haha.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It’s the storks, babies have always been brought by the storks!

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think it's totally wrong. Lots of people like to dismiss these old fashioned ideas as backwards and then don't really bother to study them, but they were scientific in a manner. People lacking microscopes can't imagine the concept of germs but do notice that things that smell bad make people sick.

So if you're around a decomposing corpse and you get a disease they were smart enough to put two and two together and figure that something from the corpse is giving you the disease, but since they have no concept of germs they only can go off of what they can sense, in that case smell.

So yeah bad smells do make people sick, sort of.

[–]Haylstorm 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it makes sense it a lot of ways, pooping near food -> People are sick. Building Latrines away from food -> less sickness.

There's a thought process there at least and it also makes sense because rotten food smells bad and rotten food can make you sick. I can see why they'd get there. Not exactly right but logical with the knowledge they had.