7 Reasons Everything You Know Is Probably Wrong

6. End-Of-History Illusion

In relation to the half-life of knowledge, we also all suffer, to some degree, from the end-of-history illusion when it comes to science and knowledge.

This term is usually used in psychology in relation to personal growth. It is the illusion that individuals of all ages will believe that they have reached their optimum levels of personal growth and will be under the impression that they will not change significantly in the future, despite being able to acknowledge significant changes in the past.

It is roughly this effect, when applied to the wider world, that led US patent office official, Charles Duell to exclaim, "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." in 1899. The same can be said for science, if you consider how many drastic developments and straight up contradictions have occurred in just the last few hundred years, some or even most of the things that we take for granted as indisputably true are bound to be overturned in the coming centuries. The only problem is, we don't know which ones they'll be.

So far, this is has just been about your problems, but what about the supposedly objective world of science?