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Pop science comparison tropes I'm tired of hearing
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Don't make me go on a Lysenko rant
Darwin thought that each part of the body generated tiny particles that carried information on heritability to the sex organs
Darwin predicted DNA?
No comrade, Lamarck predicted epigenetics! /s
In reality they were all wrong to a significant degree and also usually contributed significantly to some aspect of what is taken for granted as the 'correct' scientific knowledge
For example, it's been known Mendel must have faked his data for almost a hundred years, but that doesn't make Mendelism wrong (after you strip out the stuff that is wrong)
Does Wikipedia have a license to peddle copium of this purity?