For thousands of years, people thought the earth was flat. Then, around the 3rd century BC, Hellenistic astronomy determined the Earth to be “roughly spherical” and calculated the Earth’s circumference. Of course, humans then spent thousands of years thinking the stars orbited the earth. But in 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus introduced evidence that the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the sun.
Today, we have a new situation of in which some individuals are similarly clinging to a simple lie, when science has confirmed a new and more nuanced truth.
Although there are people who still think human sex is a binary (female/male), science has widely disproven it in recent years. [Read more…] about Sex Isn’t Binary: Olympic Committee Confirms Sex To Be a Spectrum