What are some cases where scientists were actually wrong

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>>8938864
are you for real?
there is too many to list
are you seriously unaware of stuff like people holding a conviction that Sun orbits the Earth and such?

>>8938864
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

>>8938864
Every time, in fact we're probably wrong with everything right now.

>>8940118
This, I hate people that think we know everything 100%

>>8938864
lobotomies

You really have to define what you mean by wrong.

Lots of theories are very vell suited for special cases, usually under laboratory conditions, but break down or become very unhandy outside of them.

Quantum mechanics is perfect for the energy levels of a hydrogen atom, but the heavier you get, the more irregular you become.

Navier Stokes equations have not been fully solved mathematically at all.

Maxwell's equations are very well suited for transversal waves, but allow for no longitudinal solution, which is obviously there if you look at sound or phonons, which are in a broader sense electromagnetic phenomena aswell.

Think of nature as some kind of abstract analytic function which we try to model with a Taylor function using only a couple of terms. It works up until a point it does not, and then you have to choose another point and start all over.

>>8940115
Woit, leave. You are not in position to bring a valid criticism on string theory

Science is never wrong. Science is always wrong.

>>8940345
Science is never about being right or wrong. Only fedoras think that way.

>>8940124
>>8940118
Found the agnostics, type III personality type on dominance/submission -line

>>8938864
If an earthquake causes liquification of soil, the next one can ALSO cause liquification of soil.
t. New zealand

>>8938864
Before germ theory was proven it was widely thought that rather than the germ causing the disease it was the disease that caused the presence of the germ. Basically the germ was considered to be a symptom of disease and not a cause.

These days this theory of disease is relegated to germ theory denialists but back in the 1800s without the benefit of so much additional research this wasn't a stupid idea.

>>8938864
no such thing as "wrong" the scientific method is an endless process of refining, a present theory/hypothesis/law is just that, present. It is subject to change at any time if new info contradicts it or proposes changes that result in something better/more accurate.

almost everything we have today was refined to it's present state, and will certainly continue to be refined.

>>8938864
Go read The Relativity of Wrong.
http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

Michelson and Morley were convinced that the aether existed and believed their experiment to be a huge failure.

Newton

Youler's Sum of Primes Conjecture

"""global warming"""

>>8942437
I think they believed that aether was always flowing at 90 degrees with respect to the earth of something.