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Stuff You Should Know

The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: Things We Believed Before the Scientific Method

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.7

Hey, everybody. Chuck here.

0:07.0

Continuing our journey down the science trail, here we are with, I believe, episode 7 on the list, how the scientific method works.

0:16.9

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How StuffWorks.com.

0:26.8

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. There's Jerry.

0:32.8

Stuff you should know. Why you're grinning? It's been a while, man. I know. It's funny. Like,

0:37.5

those words come pouring out of my mouth and it's cool. You wake up in the middle of night saying

0:42.1

that and you like slugged you in the face. She's like, go back to sleep. She has to dry my brow.

0:48.5

Yes, we pre-recorded some for December, as we like to do to take a little time off at the end of the year and not explain things for a few weeks in our real lives. Nice. Like, people ask me things. What happened to that stick of butter? Yeah, I don't know. Don't ask. Don't even ask me. I could tell you, but I'm not going to. Exactly. That's how it goes in my house. Find your own butter.

1:28.9

Right. December was find your own butter month. Yeah. That's a good one. That should be a T-shirt. Yeah. Stuff you should know. Find your own butter. Or December is find your own butter month. Yeah, that's right. Maybe a stick of butter with some garland on it. Yeah. I like that. So it's good to see you again, man.

1:29.7

Good to be back in here.

1:28.9

Yeah, it is nice to I like that. So it's good to see you again, man.

1:29.7

Good to be back in here.

1:41.8

Yeah, it is nice to be back, isn't it? As much as the break was great, I'm happy to be explaining things again. Well, that's good, because if we got in here and you're like, I can't do this, I can't do it again. We'd be in trouble. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm glad we're all feeling good.

1:42.7

Jerry, you feeling good?

1:46.5

Jerry's got two thumbs up in a big goofy smile.

1:47.7

Wow. Two of her three thumbs.

1:51.5

She looks like Bob from that male enhancement pill ad.

1:55.1

Oh, is he the guy, the old man that's like super buff?

2:01.2

I would call him old. He was middle-aged. He looked like kind of a Bob Dobbs typey dude. I think that's kind of who he was modeled after.

2:03.0

But is he the guy that's super mussely now? I'm thinking of someone different, I think. Are you thinking to Jack La Lane? No, no, no, no. Just there's some ad, there's some old man that looks like really creepy because from the neck down. Because he's super like buff? Looks like a 25 year old.

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