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Science's Biggest Mistakes about the Human Body
Christine Zuchora-WalskeSeries: Science Gets It Wrong(0)
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Do your eyes send out light like headlights? Does your liver create blood? Do bumps on your head tell what's inside your brain? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about the human body, and see how scientific thought changed over time.
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"This series is very entertaining while teaching science; it will appeal to all types of readers."
School Library Connection
"This pithy book, from the Science Gets It Wrong series, gives readers a look at some of the mistaken notions that seem amusing now but resulted in untold deaths.... Source notes and a bibliography will lead on students, many of whose curiosities will be piqued."
Booklist
"Concise narratives work well with photos and graphic images to convey the history of scientific thought while reminding readers that with advancements in science and technology, today's facts could just as easily be proven inaccurate in the future."
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