"science is self correcting" hohohoho get a mathematician to count for you the centuries between Galen and Vesalius
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fourteen hundred years give or take all someone had to do was cut up a few corpses and stare at them for five minutes corpses were not in short supply in those intervening years so tell me what corpses do you imagine no one is looking at today
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Nobody even counted women's teeth in all those intervening years
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i just kind of assumed men actually do have fewer ribs until I was in my early thirties
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I asked about this in health class, sophomore year I *argued* that men had fewer ribs because you could just count! how could this be perpetuated as fact when you can just count! I assumed people had counted!
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wait so men don't have fewer— right yes of course i knew this yes
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right?!
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I'll never fall for Big Bible propaganda again
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