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Stuff You Should Know

Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

Stuff You Should Know

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It’s easy to think of people in the distant past as kinda dumb for believing things like that mice could spontaneously generate from old grain. But if you look a little deeper, you’ll find there was a sensibility to the odd beliefs that came before science.

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