yes! we think, "scientists figured out germ theory so people invented indoor plumbing," when in fact it's more like, "people long wished for better indoor plumbing because shit smells, and managed to get it at about the same time as germ theory developed"
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Leviathan and the Air Pump is a great book about Boyle and the early development of science, and how basically nothing you learn about how science is supposed to work did.
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like reproducibility; Boyle and his assistant were the only ones who could get the air pump to work, "proving" a vacuum existed.
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What are you basing any of these statements on? Because evidence points to the contrary.
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This is history of science and/or philosophy of science 101 stuff
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