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The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

June 19, 2026·1h 0m

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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