The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method
The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method  
Podcast: Stuff You Should Know
Published On: Fri Jun 19 2026
Description: 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.