We have a lot of information that we adopt in our lives for a long time, what we rarely asked ourselves when we first met that information that we believe in as an undeniable fact? Especially when it comes to scientific facts. The YouTube channel It's Okay To Be Smart has published the seven most common scientific urban myths and their scientific refutations. It sounds like such an incredible fact. “Our cells are outnumbered by our microbes 10 to 1!” I don’t remember where I first heard it. But I read it in scientific papers and articles by journalists, so I believed it without question. I even made one of my first videos based on this fact. Problem is, this fact is not true. So how did it remain firmly planted in our common knowledge for almost four decades without any scientific scrutiny? And how can you prepare yourself to not be fooled by other scientific urban legends? I look at a few of the most famous incorrect factoids in science and give a few suggestions for how to make our common knowledge more correct. Test your knowledge! Maybe you want to read about Spectacle in the sky: How to see the Perseid meteor shower?
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