7 Reasons Everything You Know Is Probably Wrong
Just don't believe anything you see hear, read or watch and you'll be fine.
I really do hate to break it to you, but you’re probably wrong most of the time. Even if you’re a scientist. Especially if you’re a scientist, actually.
Everyone hates being wrong, I don’t care how graciously you behave, people would generally rather be the one doing the correcting, rather than being corrected. It also stands to reason that we would all have a tendency to believe that we, ourselves, are right most of the time, because if we thought one of our beliefs was wrong, then we surely wouldn’t believe it in the first place.
This is all pretty par for the course when it comes to belief systems regarding religious and lifestyle choices - although objective reality would state that one is right and one is wrong, we tend to let those go to personal preference without too much trouble.
But what about science? Surely that is a discipline that seeks total, objective truth? You can have an opinion about where there’s a god in the sky, but surely the fact that that same sky is blue is just science?
We’re always talking about how science deals with facts, but it turns out that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the papers, or indeed well-respected scientific journals...