See now when some one's right there just right, I picked Aether, because of it's persistence and because it lead to some pretty awful scientific conclusions. FTW got to be Aether or ether or however they spell the damn thing.
Favourite Missteps in Scientific History
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See now when some one's right there just right, I picked Aether, because of it's persistence and because it lead to some pretty awful scientific conclusions. FTW got to be Aether or ether or however they spell the damn thing.
Those are making a comeback! I'm serious! I'll find the website.
Here's something related.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/2/16/182146/521
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum//
This forum is my favourite FES forum.
There is even a section called Angry Ranting
This forum is my favourite FES forum.
There is even a section called Angry Ranting
Masquerouge
Deity
I know! Like the Flat Earth Society...
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
Here it is! Geocentrism is coming back. The notion of heliocentrism is renamed "Copernicism" or something. It's like creationists debating evolution and calling people who agree with evolution "evolutionists".
http://www.fixedearth.com/
http://www.fixedearth.com/subject_areas/subject_area_1.htm
http://www.csama.org/
http://www.csama.org/200003NL.HTM
Texas state representative gets his information from fixedearth.com:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2007/02/warren_chisum_h.html
http://www.fixedearth.com/
http://www.fixedearth.com/subject_areas/subject_area_1.htm
http://www.csama.org/
http://www.csama.org/200003NL.HTM
Texas state representative gets his information from fixedearth.com:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2007/02/warren_chisum_h.html
Fugitive Sisyphus
Escape Artist
The problem with naming a favorite misstep in scientific history is that science is continuously revising itself as new evidence appears. This means that everything in science can be described as a misstep, even things like Newton's laws of motion. For example, I would not describe the geocentric model of the solar system as a misstep because, in its time, it accurately modeled what was observed in the solar system.
Masquerouge
Deity
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum//
This forum is my favourite FES forum.
There is even a section called Angry Ranting
Oh dear I've read the FAQ and now I want to strangle a Flat Earther.
Many of them are clearly joking and just supporting it to be ironically humorous, but there are a hard core who genuinely believe the Earth is flat, and that their is a big conspiracy to withhold this information from the public. When people sail round the Earth governments come out and point them in another direction to make people think they have gone round the globe, people are kept from the edge of the world by the government etc, etc, etc
Masquerouge
Deity
Many of them are clearly joking and just supporting it to be Ironically humorous, but there are a hard core who genuinely believe the Earth is flat, and that their is a big conspiracy to withhold this information from the public. When people sail round the Earth governments come out and point them in another direction to make people think they have gone round the globe, people are kept from the edge of the world by the government etc, etc, etc
The best part in the FAQ was "how comes it's faster to fly from South America to New Zealand going towards the south pole than going towards the equator?", answered by "The pilots must be in the conspiracy".
The best part in the FAQ was "how comes it's faster to fly from South America to New Zealand going towards the south pole than going towards the equator?", answered by "The pilots must be in the conspiracy".
yeah it's the only rational explanation 
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
My favourite is the preposterous notion that Fleming invented penicillin. 'Twas Ernest Duchesne, and even he was copying it from stableboys.
Upon checking, it would appear that even the ancient Greeks had penicillin.
Upon checking, it would appear that even the ancient Greeks had penicillin.
Actually they discovered it
(Hurrah for pedantry do I get a lollipop or a medal 
) You can't invent something that already exists , and it was his lab students that found it anyway, but in science the boss gets the credit always, way it works. If Ernest Duchene did he screwed up on the PR side of his exposition of the discovery. Mind you Joseph Swan invented the light bulb, it just so happens that Edisons was more efficient and lasted longer, doesn't mean Edison invented it though. Although many believe he did.http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/edison.asp
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
I'm a big [wiki]Antonio Meucci[/wiki] fan myself. That thievin' Bell! 
I don't think you can count ancient cosmologies or the aether as missteps. Those ancient cosmologies weren't really science; and the aether was a good hypothesis in absence of relativity.
My picks:
* The rejection of continental drift, from 1920s to the 1950s/1960s. All the evidence was there, Wegener didn't have an appropriate mechanism.
* Lowell's Canals of Mars of the 1900's. Totally based on observational errors.
* The (temporary) disappearance of Mendel's work on genetics.
My picks:
* The rejection of continental drift, from 1920s to the 1950s/1960s. All the evidence was there, Wegener didn't have an appropriate mechanism.
* Lowell's Canals of Mars of the 1900's. Totally based on observational errors.
* The (temporary) disappearance of Mendel's work on genetics.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Swedishguy
Deity
That's not science.
I don't see what is so bad about thinking the earth is flat. Until the Greeks had the ability to travel large distances to measure the angle of the sun, it was pretty much impossible to go by anything other than what the earth looks like, and the earth looks pretty flat to me.
(That is, it wasn't so bad for the ancients. Now . . .)
(That is, it wasn't so bad for the ancients. Now . . .)
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Spontaneous generation of living large organisms from pure chemicals - fleas from dust, mice from grains, aphids from dew, etc.
