Episode
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method
Stuff You Should Know · Jun 19, 2026 · 1 h 00 min
It’s easy to think of people in the distant past as kinda dumb for believing things like that mice could spontaneously generate from old grain. But if you look a little deeper, you’ll find there was a sensibility to the odd beliefs that came before science. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.