5 Ancient Body Myths that Are Wildly Inaccurate

[@alzoron]

You would have thought the whole "shooting light beams out of our eyes" method of sight would have been easily debunked by the fact that we can't see anything in a completely dark room.

[@barneymiller7894]

Shut up Spike, just accept it lol

[@barneymiller7894]

It was a joke. Obviously.

[@jesusmora9379]

nah because obscure is a mist like element, that's why you can't see

[@vituzui9070]

It's because the theory was actually that vision was produced by the contact between external light and the eyes light. So even the holders of the light beams theory agreed that vsion was impossible without external light.

[@itaiko5498]

would be kinda cool tho

[@Devilot109]

Plague Doctor outfits were actually really impressive. The thing is, miasma was only one of several guesses about how the plague might be caused or spread. They were worn with smoked glasses to ward against the evil eye, and the entire thing was waxed to keep out liquids in case the victim's humors were somehow contaminated. It was *incredibly* clever, but only helped by coincidence if at all.

[@Ahrpigi]

Trying everything and getting incidental benefit sure as heck beats trying nothing and expecting things to get better. Two years after your comment was posted, I'm really wishing more people would take the former approach over the latter.

[@J.A.huscher]

Historically accurate plage mask look like nasty ugly gopher child

[@52flyingbicycles]

Full body coverings and a breathing mask would protect against a lot of diseases so hey if it’s stupid and it works it ain’t stupid. Wrong method right solution right?

[@milefiori7694]

That uniform is bizarrely charming and dreadful. Kinda remind me of old world vulture and new world vulture. Still I don't know what motivated them to create such unnecessaryly scary and eccentric uniform.

[@spiderwebnitter7859]

I'm surprised that they didn't talk about how in ancient Greece they thought that hysteria was caused by a deprived lustfull woman when her uterus was dry and would start wandering around the body looking for moister and nausea and other stuff was because the uterus was trying to get moister from the other organs. (Unless that was a myth I heard)

[@barneymiller7894]

Nope that was a thing people believed.

[@-Devy-]

They already did an episode on that.

[@happyfacefries]

I'm sorry wat

[@roscosanchez4649]

Moisture...

[@J.A.huscher]

@@-Devy- I want to know the video pls

[@pdreding]

I always wonder what we believe now that people a century or two from now will think us foolish for believing.

[@bobhope4288]

Survey says....supernatural beings.

[@GREENSP0RE]

I'll second that answer, though societal prediction is a super hairy subject.

[@Jarod3926]

"Healthy at any size"

[@FriedEgg101]

That cannabis is more harmful than alcohol.

[@songclips.korean]

Like flat earth.. ?!

[@PunchyAirplane]

Has anyone seen my inhaler?! I need it because of miasma

[@HH-lr2zt]

Underrated pun.

[@TheReZisTLust]

Naraku?

[@Carlsweeney01]

I was actually scrolling to find this comment

[@Chica56]

**ba dum tss**

[@gnostaoticanarchangautand]

*_I see we have a man of culture here_*

[@Olli_exe.]

Ancient Greeks: Our eyes shoot beams of light and that's how we can see. Everyone else: seems legit.

[@barneymiller7894]

I feel like thats how everything on this list happened LOL "Man i feel shitty today" "Ya got to much blood bro, gotta let some out" *Seems legit

[@paulahaverinen4338]

LASER EYES!

[@rick149ou]

At least Epicurus and Aristotle were on the right track.

[@elias_xp95]

They actually weren't wrong. When you close your eyes you see light emitted from your bodies own bioluminescence. www.livescience.com/7799-strange-humans-glow-visible-light.html

[@addy7464]

Greeks were one of the most intellectual empires in the world...... Remember heron,aristotle,socrates,plato,PYTHAGORAS,zeno,plato and thales.

[@alexmcd378]

How could you leave "wandering uterus" off of a list of absurdly inaccurate science body ideas?

[@3800S1]

Because they have already covered in a number of times. This would of made it like the 4th or 5th time.

[@organizedchaos6412]

What's that?

[@aejlindvall]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJbJiqGPfr2MlZo Here's a video of it Sci show did in May!

[@qiaomeizhang3932]

Alex McD lol

[@luciferangelica]

you might want to read up on a condition known as wandering bladder why, dad? oh, no reason

[@Poofiemus]

One of the reasons I love science is because I love knowing that someday, people will look at some of the stuff we believe now and laugh as hard as I did at the ideas in this video.

[@canyonparkerfirebird]

Like how some people had pony pfps lol

[@gives_bad_advice]

That's an optimistic thought.

[@spazzwazzle]

Reddit moment

[@edwardtwofeathers4823]

The CDC.

[@Neme112]

Not really, at least definitely not to such an extent. Those older ideas were really just ideas and weren't based on evidence or the scientific method, which didn't even exist yet. Today, science is much more rigorous.

[@micahphilson]

It's amazing how, even though these are all so terribly wrong and were such commonly held beliefs for such a long time, they still often led to treatments that worked, like the London sewage system! I mean, more often it led to trepanning and bloodletting, but you know, you can't win 'em all.

[@VitalVampyr]

Miasma Theory is almost true. I holds that bad smells cause disease while today we know that pathogens or poisons cause disease and things which carry them often smell bad. That's why many miasma-based solutions to health worked. There was also a marginally more successful method of humor-based treatments that this video didn't cover. Instead of "draining bad humors" they would instead "promote good humors" by having the patient consume things which were hot, cold, dry, or wet (I forget which is for which humor).

[@calamusgladiofortior2814]

Yup, a lot of the more persistent bad theories kinda sorta worked sometimes, which was why they stuck around. One of favourites was the origin of the saying, “Hair of the dog (that bit you). There was a theory that a wound was connected to the thing which caused it, and you could make some poultice to treat the wound if you could find the dog which bit you or the sword that cut you. But, to keep out other negative vibes until that was done, they cleaned the wound and kept it bandaged and dry. So it worked, just not for the reason they thought.

[@GotPotatoes24]

Micah Philson at least trepanning, for some reason or other, wasn't actually an immediate death sentence? Like one would assume yanking off a whole circle of skull would just be a game over, but since the skulls showed signs of healing after the fact, obviously a whole bunch of trepanned people (and also. cows) survived the procedure.

[@zxb995511]

FYI, both trepanning and bloodletting are actual legitimate medical procedures that are useful in some very specific medical conditions. Trepanning can be useful for relieving excessive intracranial pressure when all else fails, and "bloodletting" (phlebotomy) can be useful for people suffering from Hemochromatosis or Polycythemia Vera.

[@MrBilld75]

Yeah, funny how that happens. If it hadn't been for a few rebels who defied convention, or just accidental discoveries, we wouldn't be where we are today and imagine how much stupid crap we would still believe? Lol. I find it amazing too. We could be sooooo much worse off.

[@SciencewithKatie]

Blood letting sounds medieval but it is still carried out today for some conditions, such as those with haemochromatosis (iron overload). Removing blood removes red blood cells (that contain iron), and the body uses up iron replacing them, further reducing the amount of iron!

[@Im_Just_A_Dreamer]

Today I learned...

[@carsonrush3352]

Leeches are still in use today, used in reattaching digits and skin graft, due to their ability to reduce blood pooling after surgery and thin the blood to allow circulation restoration.

[@Jade-g6p]

Science with Katie also when there are blood blisters.

[@J117-t2g]

Absolutely right! Although it is just for rare hematologic conditions and it is definitely done in a more controlled fashion haha

[@ryanchamberlain6904]

Right, theraputic phlebotomy is the usual treatment for condidtions like hereditary hemochromatosis (iron overload) and polycythemia vera (too many RBCs). I probably wouldn't use the term bloodletting in the clinical setting though 😁

[@onemadscientist7305]

I can understand where we got most of this stuff, but extramission ? Like, if our eyes are emitting stuff to make us see, how come we see better during the day than during the night ? There's litterally a giant ball of light during the day and it's not there during the night for some reason. Also, shadows are a thing. And they're always on the side of objects that's facing away from the sun. I don't understand how this wasn't immediately dismissed. But hey, I guess the greeks had a different mindset.

[@onemadscientist7305]

I know right ? It's pretty weird. Humans are bad at thinking sometimes. Actually, I think we're bad at it most of the time. Blame it on those stupid psychological biases.

[@Onychoprion27]

That sort of reasoning was how Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn am-Haytham reasoned against it. It hurts to look at the sun, or at bright lights at night. That wouldnt happen if sight came from the eyes.

[@Onychoprion27]

Tolyngee blame it on the tedency to revere people of the past. It held on for so long because Plato believed it, and great thinkers of old can't be wrong.

[@piteoswaldo]

There are many religions that say it is holy to study and acquire knowledge. For example, Islam; and that is why during the medieval period in Europe, the Islamic world was having its golden era of science.

[@jheanelltabana8713]

Exactly! And wouldn't you be able to see the light beams coming out of other people's eyes? Maybe they thought it was a special type of light, because I can't see how they'd explain night.

[@billythedog6485]

“I have too much phlegm and I don’t want to do things” Found my new yearbook quote

[@audreydoyle5268]

There's possibility that inflammation correlates with depression.

[@supremereader7614]

Why not make a video, ‘Five things humans get really wrong about our bodies - still.”

[@sleepyote]

Supreme Reader #1 vAcCiNeS cUaSe aUtIsM

[@carlosmarte428]

Doggoroo I read this while thinking of the 4chan guy with the dent in his head and I lost it.

[@sofialaya596]

also things people get wrong about the 2 sexes, male and female. I've seen so many misconceptions about that part of our biology over the years, more than any other, it's impressive

[@lukebowar3788]

@@sofialaya596 In what way? As in believing gender is different from sex? Because that is quite the ridiculous claim

[@99Kuromaru]

@@lukebowar3788 well, when you think about it, not that much... I mean sex is just difference in anatomies based on chromosomes... But gender is a societal thing, what you have between your legs doesn't affect your behaviour though... does it?

[@eckmann88]

“What do we have?” “TOO MICH PHLEGM!” “What are we going to do about it?” “Meh. Nothing really.”

[@owlblocksdavid4955]

Can confirm miasma is real. It gets all over my fortress if my dwarfs don't take their dead out to the corpse pile.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

And so another fortress falls because bad humors lead to a tantrum spiral.

[@theodoretibbitts9538]

underrated comment

[@elisabethandersen1102]

"black bile causes melancholy", "chemical imbalances causes sadness". How far we've come.

[@Honeybreee]

Of course John Snow knew nothing.

[@Evan94045]

Bree Evans He did know some things

[@jonson97rus]

Evan Wolfla whoosh, that went over your head

[@Evan94045]

jonson97rus check again. You whooshed yourself. “I do know some things” - Jon Snow to Ygritte.

[@jonson97rus]

Evan Wolfla sorry, I have watched GoT with Russian dubbing, so I must've forgot the exact lines

[@bergonius]

Зря, пересмотри в с оргинальной озвучкой и субтитрами, оно того стоит.

[@DkKombo]

This makes me wonder how if we had magic in our world, how it might be misunderstood and understood in our modern day. "Necromancy, was considered to be done by use of bringing back the spirit of the undead and using its body parts. We know now, however, that necromancy is caused by the intense vibration of gamma rays to two very specific parts of the users brain and torso upon a corpse, which reignites the past homodyn processes and envigorates the cysix tissue, causing a relapse of intense negative thoughts which takes shape of the percieved ghost or body into physical form and replicates past movements of the corpse."

[@annie123e]

I feel like this premise would make for a very interesting sci-fi/fantasy mash up novel.

[@DkKombo]

Thinking about how the gamma rays have to refract upon the torso, would that mean that negative energy could potentially cause erectile dysfunction or "defunct" offspring? Also if I find John Green stealing my ideas HE IS DEAD. Lol jk idc he probably has more writing discipline than I do he can have it.

[@myman7589]

Gotta love your brain.

[@alexcalvin2624]

I want this concept in a book so bad.

[@toyamwarr]

This sounds like a great tv show premise. “Harry Potter” meets “Grey’s Anatomy” or something on that vein.

[@phrygiandominant6989]

"Well, you kinda really need blood to be alive."

[@christelheadington1136]

Ya think?

[@morganr.2460]

Blood is good. You need blood to live.

[@jenniferferguson1517]

Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round, any deviation of that is a problem

[@scottmantooth8785]

unless you're a zombie...but then you'd have other more immediate problems to distract you

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

@@morganr.2460 Greetings fellow Oglaf reader.

[@misterbubbles6389]

I love videos like this, involving obsolete scientific theories. It's so fascinating to see where we came from and where we are now.

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

1. Muscle Hank is secretly The Rock

[@TheReZisTLust]

Muscle bank is a kid from 13 to an adult maybe 27 with access to whats used nowadays... Photoshop still?

[@inhumanfilth681]

@@TheReZisTLust nah probly a 400lb 37 year old computer gamer with access to google images lmao

[@lakesheppard5466]

Go to his page if you're curious.

[@Master_Therion]

I'm not ready to discount the Humoral Theory, I think bodily fluids are very humorous.

[@sebastianelytron8450]

A good candidate for most underrated comment of all-time.

[@carlahernandez1108]

Hmm...bile have to think hard to come up with a better pun🤔

[@maggiee639]

Nice dads joke 10/10 👍👍

[@TurnerClassicNinja]

Boooooooooo.

[@kyrlics6515]

TurnerClassicNinja u

[@Blue_Spirit7]

When i was 9, i had no idea of science. BUT i made up a theory that people shoot "vision light" out and then it came back at the sppeed of light. So i made up an ancient theory when i was 9 and i had no idea.

[@Blue_Spirit7]

@YoungD3mon314 yeah, but by that age the most i did was see disney movies, to think that at such q young age i could make sort of the same theories as the smartest people of that time makes me think that i must have been pretty smart for my young age, it wasnt till 8th grade science that i got sort of corrected. And then scishow corrected me completly in one of their videos.

[@Blue_Spirit7]

@YoungD3mon314 oh. Got it now, yeah makes sense, we all observe the same things, the one thing that changes is the interpretation.

[@cookeymonster83]

By the age of like 5 I theorised that images travel into the eyes and recorded by the brain like how a video camera works. Being wrong never makes you smart.

[@livstibal3852]

I didn't look at the thumbnail, and I barely read the description because I'm listening to this as background noise. But the second I heard hank's voice, I'm immediately paying attention. This man taught me everything I know about psychology, AP chemistry, and so much more. I know nobody will see this, but Hank, you're my role model and I aspire to be just like you when I grow up

[@gunslinger2566]

Muscle Hank is gonna love this one.

[@jebblount7360]

"Worked better than wearing no mask at all" 2021 would like to steal that line, Hank.

[@SAMURIADI]

if our eyes shot out light we could see in the dark, BAM PROBLEM SOLVED

[@arth8265]

We need to recharge them when nightime comes.

[@qiaomeizhang3932]

SAMURIADI lmao

[@Aleks6010]

their idea of light was probably way different and thought that eye beams and light interacted with each other in order to enable you to see, and when you go into the dark you can't see anything but after 10-15 minutes after your eyes have adjusted they must've thought that the eye beams got stronger enabling you to see better

[@TheReZisTLust]

Nobody said it was a nightlight

[@musclehank6067]

I can tell you something I got right about my body 💪💪

[@dominicesquivel3901]

Whats your secret Muscle Hank?

[@drewdurant3835]

Dominic Esquivel his secret is being a bad ass!!

[@creliat]

I'm so glad this account exists

[@Why_It]

Has normal Hank ever noticed you, Muscle Hank?

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

Man, I wanna touch your muscles!

[@freelanceopportunist559]

Born prematurely, I have the brain of a lizard

[@ethanquesenberry7948]

Freelance opportunist same

[@freelanceopportunist559]

Qizzardofoz Jr. Wanna start a cult?

[@EmjiAmsdaughter]

Me too.

[@Burn_Angel]

Oh, don't worry, our brains are like marsupials, they keep developing after we're born.

[@dudepool7530]

Wait, i was half a month late, does that mean my lizard brain evolved into a bird-brain? 😂

[@CuddlePhantom]

When I told my 10 grade biology teacher that those human embryo drawings are wrong, she yelled at me in front of the whole class saying how stupid I was and failed the whole quarter for that topic. She still hates me to this day and picks on my younger sister.

[@Is-wunny]

Send them Correct Human Embryos Pictures printed full color on mail 24/7

[@Sliferslacker21]

I know this was posted 2 years ago but teachers like that have no reason to be in the educational field. If she mistreated your sister because of her hatred for being corrected by you, failed you for simply pointing something out, she needs to honestly be fired. Her actions can cause students some psychological harm that prevents them from trying their best in the future for fear of being yelled at and ridiculed. You and your sister should have totally set her up to be fired.

[@jetoler7379]

Your biology teacher needs to be fired.

[@roscosanchez4649]

On this episode of stories that never happened...

[@melissapyle7879]

Not ALL the embryo pics r wrong..

[@fluffysxangel]

Laughed out loud at the delivery of: “when I have too much phlegm, I do not want to do things”

[@JustinY.]

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

[@matteussilvestre8583]

How many lightbulbs does it take to change people?

[@zucchini_zucchini]

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

[@jl8417]

I thought you were Justin. Y, not Jaden. S

[@LordofBroccoli]

How can I write this comment if words aren't real?

[@El-RaShahzad]

This is not a pipe

[@Psiberzerker]

My favorite so far is that the brain is for cooling the blood. Which admittedly, happens to be true, but isn't exactly it's most important function.

[@corebroth8793]

_“I have too much phlegm. I do not want to do things.”_ - Hank, 2k18

[@Blaublahblue]

I think it's a French /English pun, "avoir la flemme" (pronounced as phlegm) means you can't be bothered 🙄

[@nanabird4073]

Hank's reactions to something horrifying are just about the best thing ever.

[@juliantheivysaur3137]

I used to believe that our eyes emit beams, when i was 9 years old. Where i also thought that, old films with no color were made in a time when there was no color. I also thought that cartoon characters really existed because "How else would they make those cartoons?".

[@barneymiller7894]

I remeber thinking the world had no color in the past! lol kids are dumb AF

[@pseudo3100]

how did you believe this when you were 9...

[@vivimannequin]

When I was little I always wondered why the world looks the way it does and why cartoons didn't

[@myman7589]

I made the same mistake too. Not just with monochrome. I also thought that the world in the 70s and 80s were grainy and saturated as portrayed on the photographs made in those days lol.

[@NiraSader]

"You know something, John Snow"

[@jarencascino7604]

How come I had to scroll down 30 comments to find someone point out John Snow

[@GREENSP0RE]

"Uhn ore'ki atum" fellow Protoss.

[@septromnation7840]

It's jon not john

[@erraticonteuse]

@@septromnation7840 The GOT character is Jon, but the doctor was John.

[@legrandliseurtri7495]

😏😏😏

[@msoda8516]

As a brain tumor survivor I’m glad I was born in a time with medical treatment that could save my life.

[@coryc123]

When he said, "I am so glad, I'm alive NOW", I felt that.

[@MrMielke]

I think you are being a bit hard on the followers of the smell theory. We find a lot of things that carry diseases smelly, because it made evolutionary sense to stay away from that, so they were on to something. It's basically a case of "correlation != causation," a mistake that many people make today. :) EDIT: Going through the comments, I think it might be worth pointing out that people in the future won't be as hard on us because of the scientific method. You could perhaps link to your video on that somewhere. (watch?v=i8wi0QnYN6s)

[@zxb995511]

Most of the people the people that watch something like this and criticize how they could have thought that, do not appreciate the power of modern education and information sharing. Any person with even a high-school diploma has been exposed to thousands of years of cumulative human knowledge in a comprehensive form, and if you have an internet connection you have access to what amounts to the sum of all human knowledge consensed in a searchable library...The ancients could not even dream of something like that.

[@scottmantooth8785]

so there is a direct link between the phrase "pull my finger" and the spontaneously generated gaseous emissions that result in highly localized miasma event

[@Kittyhalk]

I was really expecting the whole "womb roaming the body" thing to make an appearance lol

[@menstilo9172]

If we could shoot light beams out of our eyes, couldn't we then perfectly see at night? I mean we'd always have a reliable light source

[@faceshed]

On number 4. As a kid I use to think that my eyes would cast the sight on something to let me see. The idea was wrong, but at the time I just didn't have enough information to say for sure that it was wrong or why. I remember thinking about a drawing where a dotted line would indicate someone looking at something. My brother started the dotted line at the object. I started at the eye. You might think it was silly that I didn't realize that the "eye beam" would have no way to get information back to me, but I did think about it and I didn't consider that a problem. As a child I didn't see any reason to suspect that information needs work physically. I reasoned instead that because it took the act of moving my eye at something and opening my eye to cause vision, that it would be more likely I was the source.

[@TheScholesie09]

I really can't wrap my head around it. How did people think we could see because of light from our eyes and not other sources? If you cover the light source, it gets dark, you can't see. I must not be understanding it because these great minds cant be THAT stupid.

[@massimookissed1023]

Maybe part of the problem came from Aristotle favouring the (correct) idea of external light entering the eyes. Aristotle was wrong about almost everything else.

[@nightlightabcd]

If you cover you eyes,that restricts the beams from your eyes! That just gives more evidence to their theory, however erroneous it may be!

[@supremereader7614]

nightlightabcd she’s not talking about covering the eyes, she’s talking about light source. If we had a light beam coming from our eyes wouldn’t we be able to see in a dark room?

[@9308323]

James Batchelor They're probably thinking that a dark room is just colored black. Remember, they're not thinking of vision the way we do today. They're not thinking of the visible spectrum, it's more of a (super)natural force being emitted from our eyes.

[@entropyzero5588]

+930 8323 So the light supplies the colours to objects and our "eye beams" then register said color? Hm…

[@camgood2437]

So, when they at first ignored his research, did anyone ever say "you know nothing, Dr. John Snow"? I need to know.

[@tass466]

Oh God this whole tooth section is so uncomfortable

[@scottmantooth8785]

as surprising as it may sound..i'm not a dentist

[@Miinish]

I've actually had the tooth and "worm" procedure done on me before. It was a root canal, The tooth was so infected that they cut open my gums and took the root and the nerve out.

[@jennag3226]

@@Miinish Thats not a root canal and they most likely only removed the apex of the root, which is called an apicoectomy.

[@fromscratchauntybindy9743]

Runs screaming to bathroom to immediately clean teeth with Enamel repair toothpaste... 😨

[@peterg76yt]

Miasma theory was on the right track and was pretty insightful for a time without microscope technology. I think everyone would agree that air containing infectious particles like SARS-CoV-2 would qualify as bad.

[@kristianferencik8685]

The microscope was invented in 1585, bacteria were discovered in 1665, the link between bacteria and disease wasn't discovered till 1876-1886.

[@beckijameson3844]

Spoken like a true intellectual: "I've learned a great deal and I'm very excited to be sharing it with the world."

[@sailorarwen6101]

I love how people seem to think we’re all knowing now. Take everything with a grain of salt because before you’re dead what you thought you knew growing up will have changed.

[@pancreasnostalgia]

Snow did contribute greatly to the understanding of cholera during the Broad Street epidemic, he also had help from curate Henry Whitehead. Really the two men's work combined solved the problem. I also think that while the miasma theory was wrong, it led to more good than trouble. Whereas the humoral theory led to way more harm and modern face-palming.

[@Jade-g6p]

Honestly, miasma theory seems to have helped scientists do what was best without having to understand germs or anti biotics.

[@possumbly]

I remember learning "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" in school and I'm not terribly old. So, this makes me question other things I learned from that class.

[@Lucky10279]

I wonder what people hundreds of years from now will think of our current medical practices. Obviously, we've come a LONG way even in the past couple hundred years, but there's still a lot we don't know or could have wrong. I'm reading a series right now that takes place several hundred years in the future and they have something called "biofoam" which heals even deadly wounds in minutes to hours depending on the type of injury. That's science fiction, obviously, but maybe we'll eventually have something like it. Interesting to hear how far we've come and to wonder where we'll go from here.

[@nephra.extraterrestrial]

What's the series called? Sounds interesting!

[@AidanRatnage]

At 4:43, that physician knew nothing.

[@blacksalena0]

Aidan Or unfortunate for the people around him, the unsung hero actually knew everything yet everybody keeps telling him that he knows nothing and rejected him

[@DarthBiomech]

I honestly can't believe that the emission theory wasn't gutted in it's infancy by the simplest counterargument of "if this is true then why do we cannot see at night?" So much for the "ancient wisdom", apparently.

[@alexnndder]

*Everyone around Dr. Snow was like:* *"you know nothing, John Snow"* *........ I'll go home.....*

[@alexanderschestag3247]

The ch in Robert Koch is pronounced like the ch in the Scottish Loch.

[@sicariusvast9555]

The Robert Cock institude 😂

[@marween4047]

cock

[@Schmidteren]

I like all the presenters of this channel. But you are my fav.. Please don't tell the others!

[@Ruckus45]

I've worked in behavioral health for a while and have heard horror stories of treatment modalities from the early 1900s. I often wonder if the same things will be said about treatment modalities today.... probably will

[@bethanyishappy5830]

Could they have thought tooth worms were a thing because of cavities? When you see a hole in an apple you think a worm might be in there, so maybe they used that same logic.

[@disappointmentjuice8676]

To all the awesome crew members at Scishow, I want to clarify something. Bloodletting isn't as stupid as many people think. It isn't stupid for people with too much iron. Leeches suck blood to thin it out and reduce the chance of it clotting, for people with blood clots. That's bloodletting, and it is a common practice today. Using maggots to eat away at dead and infected tissue may be absolutely disgusting, but it reveals some promising results. But they weren't entirely genius. We use it for specific reasons, they used it for general things, like a cold. So it isn't 'yeah they were kinda right,' but more of a 'they were completely wrong but we just happened to find practical use for it.'

[@woodfur00]

Anyone else feeling like brushing your teeth right now?

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

woodfur00 I'm polishing off a bag of Haribo. 😄

[@gregslingland3576]

Sweettarts for me.

[@calamusgladiofortior2814]

The tooth worms do like a nice massage ;)

[@woodfur00]

AtarahDerek Gee, that sure is special. You're better than us peasants.

[@__-wc5zn]

Yo fellow homestuck

[@uniqhnd23]

I love how we went from embryos having gills to seeing inside the human body without any surgery.

[@gendoll5006]

Omg number 3!! Yes I totally get it!!! I had a cavity that freaked me out because it felt like a tiny worm moving around! It really was odd and horrible. It was just nerve pain of course but omg I thought the worst things!!!

[@sailordolly]

The "worms cause cavities" idea still persists in the naming conventions in some languages--for example, the Japanese word for a dental cavity is "mushiba", which means "worm-tooth".

[@annj60]

I wish I had something like torches in my eyes. Much easier to knit in the dark! Would save a lot on the electrical bills to!

[@Crosshill]

my favorite misconception is the one where the grey wrinkly stuff in your head was pretty much useless and its just so fun cause like, you live in there mate

[@faithfuljohn]

As a man in my early 40s, I can tell you I definitely was taught recapitulation theory even while doing my Human Biology degree.... from a professor of Medicine (around 20 years ago). It seemed ridiculous to me then... So yeah... there is that.

[@p.s.224]

There are still terms like “reptilian brain“ as in some evolutionary “old“ part of the brain being thrown around, I always wondered how scientific that was or how literally it was meant. Also: those who invented recapitulation theory kind of had a theory of evolution, but all we ever hear of is Darwin who came much later?

[@MiceNine9]

Possibly my favorite episode of SciShow ever.

[@Asynca]

"I'm so glad I'm alive now." - literally what I was thinking as he said that

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@WitchVulgar]

#4: Emission Theory is called Ray-Tracing

[@darkestkhan]

True, but we use ray-tracing only because it is way cheaper on computational resources than actual physical simulation of light.

[@JanBabiuchHall]

Yep, I was taught Ernst Haeckel's theory in high school biology. Still remember those exact embryo drawings.

[@milesarcher8502]

re: Miasma. the Italian term for "bad air" is "MAL ARIA"!!!

[@pinkliongaming8769]

The embryo evolution one reminds me of how the gems go through all their forms when reforming

[@willtrautman6243]

6:35 Someone make a gif please

[@dabiskitt]

Will Trautman y tho

[@willtrautman6243]

Aaron Walls Because

[@mxRian4]

It’s alarming how often I think of trepanning after an especially rough day at the office.

[@TavernBrawler]

I, too, am also glad I am alive *today*, Hank

[@anamarie7820]

You probably will never read this but in case you do: Any time you are in a video it makes me want to watch it. I love the way you explain things and your charisma. You are so cute too! Don't ever stop making videos. You're the reason I have such a KZbin addiction!

[@annabellewilson0101]

I wonder what we're wrong about now..

[@jenniferferguson1517]

Cold air makes you sick Vaccines cause autism “Holistic” medicine does anything “Organic” food is better for you. There are a few to start with that are WRONG

[@UrbanClimber]

Illegal drugs are bad and they are the reason why people get addicted. Or maybe people want to get addicted and use illegal drugs? Who knows at least we got the most harmful drug legal thats the most important thing.

[@scottmantooth8785]

lots of things...popular political environmental theories...bigfoot not being real...that sort of thing

[@myman7589]

@@jenniferferguson1517 I have a feeling that those who claim vaccines cause autism are the same kind of morons who once rejected science because they prefer life to be "simple and pure as intended by God" lol.

[@kitvalentine7593]

this is the best, the history of science segments are always my favorites

[@randomicko542]

But... if our eyes would shoot out light, wouldn't we be able to see in the dark really well? This makes no sense.

[@SohiTheTinyKittenHuman]

RandomIcko like cat eyes but flashlight cat eyes lol

[@HalTheAl]

That picture of Epicurus is perfect. The expression is totally one of someone who just got told something so unbelievably stupid he has to take a minute or two to process it.

[@laydieelle7069]

SO happy I was born AFTER all those eras.

[@Blaublahblue]

In 500 years, people will look back at us and think the same thing.

[@danielstromberg]

I'm not sure I've ever seen a SciShow I didn't like, but I thought this one was particularly interesting.

[@SuperVstech]

Antibacterial soap... oops

[@Cosmic1900]

Etienne might have been on to something with his theory- I can think of a few people who never seemed to develop past their 'Fish Brain'

[@Emcron]

#6: the belief that antibiotics can fight viruses. >_>

[@seatbelttruck]

"Haeckel, I know you're dead, but that's not science, man." One of the best lines ever uttered in these videos XD. I remember learning about Haeckel's embryo theory and thinking it made absolutely no sense. It's nice to know my instincts were correct on that one.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

A woman was grown from a rib planted in the ground 😄.

[@qiaomeizhang3932]

Ian Macfarlane lol wtf 😂

[@HH-lr2zt]

@@qiaomeizhang3932 Christians believe that the first woman was created when God took out the first man's rib.

[@qiaomeizhang3932]

Hannah Henderson oh ok. For some reason that sounds silly. Sorry. I shouldn’t make fun of that.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

@@qiaomeizhang3932 What? "Sorry, I shouldn't make fun of that" Why? Are you a Christian? Are you religious?

[@ethanwagner6418]

OOF

[@Chloe-zs8ee]

You should do a video on the history/evolving practices of midwifery! That’d be super interesting I think

[@NostalgiaChubby]

I've always felt uncomfy around this topic...cuz you have to admit everything we believe to be true right now is all ridiculous in the future

[@fred_e]

Nostalgia Chubby , Is? Or, might be?

[@NostalgiaChubby]

probably both

[@nightlightabcd]

Isn't that assuming that the conservatives and the religious right via politics don't inhibit science, like they do with climate change, and replace it with religions view of things, that the earth is six thousand years old and the earth and life was created as it is now, with the support of a political party that will exploit it for votes!

[@tomshraderd4915]

Yeah, no. There is a fundamental difference between those ancient hypotheses, most of which were nothing more than fancy guesswork, and our modern theories which were developed using the scientific method. Yes, there are still gaps in our knowledge and some of the current HYPOTHESES will probably be proven wrong. But I highly doubt that we will somehow conclude that our bodies aren't made out of cells or that we do aren't able to see because of light reflecting off objects and entering our eyes.

[@isaacthek]

usefulmuse while I love MIB, it's actually wrong to say they knew the world was flat. Even the Greeks knew the earth was round, and calculated its circumference fairly accurately. The dispute with Columbus was HOW BIG the globe was, as many people thought they would starve to death before finding the west indies. Which they would have if the Americas didn't exist. Bottom line, beliefs versus proofs: modern science is based on the latter, while ancient medicine was focused on the former. Modern medicine might seem crude compared to future advancements, but that's different than being flat out wrong.

[@BadCookWhoJudgesChefs]

The bad smell hypothesis had some evolutionary evidence. Things that smell bad to us are generally bad for us. Granted they had no idea about that but it was definitely better than blaming it on sin.

[@kranser]

Why are textbooks allowed to print the fraudulent drawings....? It is not science and does not make sense for them to be allowed to publish false information!

[@nightlightabcd]

You can bet that there are text books that show that God created the universe and the earth and ll life on it! Just ask the Creationist! Of how about that all the animals were represent by pairs, male and female, and saved from Noah's flood and that the earth is only six thousand years old! People believe that!! They really do!!

[@kranser]

Well, "because someone else does it" is not a valid reason for lying! Anyway, from current scientific knowledge, I do not see anything that disproves all animals today coming from the pairs of animals on Noah's ark - it makes perfect sense that all dog species today originated from two dogs around a few thousand years ago.

[@barneymiller7894]

Unfortunately there are no laws or regulations regarding the contents of educational material, though there certainly should be.

[@Enderdragon475]

kranser Look up AronRa’s videos ”How ___ disproves the flood”.

[@Ganara426]

>Assuming christian religion is the only religion in this world

[@shawnsimmons1308]

I think the weirdest thing we thought about our bodies, by far, is that they somehow contain "souls".

[@jordonhodges8493]

Id love to know what theories we have and use that we will prove wrong(the bigger ideas)

[@martinturner4622]

I wish we could see a similar video created a hundred years from now explaining all of the bizarre practices we currently have in sciences that are taken very seriously

[@davidprodigy5833]

Ouch!!!!

[@zen3881]

Your hand gestures are phenomenal