The notion that fluctuations of the sun affect climate is ancient, although meteorologists frequently ignore this, since the change in solar luminosity is small.
Originally posted on Complexity Digest: The idea that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by just six degrees of separation was explained by the‘small-world' network model 20 years ago.
The notion that hell is somewhere in outer space, possibly in a black hole, is based on the knowledge that black holes are places of great heat and pressure from which nothing, not even light, can escape.
Ideas for the site of the new city hall and opera house were continually changing, and the idea that both buildings could form a single complex only emerged much later.
For example, the belief that vaccines cause autism has been widely disproven by scientific evidence, yet still leads some parents to delay or avoid vaccinating their children.
The notion that nuclear weapons were'necessary', or a'deterrent', despite the protests and all evidence to the contrary, held sway then and continues to do so today.
Add this to field studies of the sometimes violent behaviour of mankind's closest living relative, the chimpanzee, and the idea that making war is somehow in humanity's genes has seemed quite plausible.
The notion that dietary fat is harmful, particularly saturated fat, arose decades ago from comparisons of disease rates among large national populations….
However, it is the capture of thousands of Saudi soldiers, including high-ranking officers, and mercenaries that has consolidated the idea that Saudi Arabia is experiencing its own so-called“Vietnam War.”.
Knowing that we have come a long way in improving living conditions and the notion that our work is worthwhile is to us all what self-respect is to individuals.
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