I didn't graduate highschool though
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The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though; you could celebrate:
- The first humans to cross the Bering Strait, which is a long extinct lineage
- The earliest ancestors to settle the Americas, whom we don't even know the descendants of
- The first Europeans to reach the Americas, ie Leif Erikson (Polynesia did it much later)
- The first people to cross an ocean to get to the Americas, most likely Polynesians but possibly Columbus
- The first Europeans to form a permanent settlement in the Americas, ie Columbus
- The founders of the forerunner to the US, ie Walter Raleigh & co
- The founding fathers for founding the US
And plenty more I'm sure you could come up with
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Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
I always understood it as your immune system gets weaker from being in the cold and makes it easier for viruses and such to propogate in your body. We're constantly fighting off minor infections and disease, and thankfully our immune systems are pretty strong....cold does not help it.
I'd say this one is sort of true...in the right context.
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When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still "fringe science".
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
People believe enough random bullshit to tickle their memories with their classics list.
When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s
I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn't have proper education. oops...
also, Computer Vision was considered "AI-complete" and likely decades away. ImageNet dropped a couple years I graduated. though I guess it ended up being "AI-complete" in a way...
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