Review
A single experiment ended 2,000 years of scientific belief
Science prides itself on self-correction — but history shows it has taken some spectacular wrong turns. For over two millennia, spontaneous generation was accepted as fact, claiming life could emerge from rotting meat or mud. Physicists defended invisible substances like phlogiston and luminiferous ether, while astronomers convinced themselves Mars was covered in artificial canals. These weren’t fringe ideas — they were mainstream science, until better experiments shattered them.
