The 2000-Year Fact-Checking Failure

The 2000-Year Fact-Checking Failure
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Aristotle really dropped the ball on this one! For two millennia, his unchallenged assertion that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones was just... accepted. Nobody bothered to climb a tower and drop different weights until Galileo finally said "hold my wine" in the 1500s. Imagine the physics textbooks we could have had if someone had just taken five minutes to fact-check the guy. The scientific method was apparently on a 2000-year coffee break!

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