ABC of Popular Misconceptions | Date: 13 April 2011, 13:06
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Knowledge is growing fast, yet there are certain areas where no shaft of light enters. These are the areas where a horde of misconceptions still manage to live and thrive. Most of us even do not know that we have become strongly bound down to wrong conclusions, because they are handed over to us, as if they are gospel truths, by people who, in our view, ought to know. Therein lies a warning. Never accept anything, unless you test it yourself.
But, how does one go about this test?
That is where the present book ABC of Popular Misconceptions — fourth Book of our "ABC Series' — which deals with hundreds of miscon-ceptions that man has developed throughout the ages. The author has discussed the nature of the various misconceptions followed by a scientific analysis in each case.
It picks up some of the common misconceptions, points out where we err, when we place our faith in them, educates us, corrects us, shows the right understanding of the situation.
One instance would suffice. We all believe that a red rag enrages a bull. We assign the reaction of the bull to the colour 'red'. Yet, students of animal behaviour know that the bull is colour blind. So, where does that leave us? If you still believe that it is the red rag which alone makes a bull furious, try waving a green or a white rag before a bull. The animal will charge at you, all the same.
Did Eve entice Adam into crime by making him eat the apple? She may have drawn him into crime, but there is no mention anywhere that the fruit that Adam nibbled at was the apple. It strikes you as unbelievable when we tell you that modern pencils, often called lead pencils, do no contain lead at all. Men and women have the same number of ribs, even though many of us carry a misconception due to the Biblical tale that God borrowed a rib from Adam and turned it into Eve. Who invented the telegraph? Not Samuel Morse, but Joseph Henry, yet it is Morse who still gets the credit.
There are many more such misconceptions, erroneous beliefs, mis-taken notions which are knocked down by the compiler of this volume. Read this book to free yourself of thousands of misconceptions, and thus become a little less inhibited by wrong erodes.
The author, Mr Uday Lai, is a well informed person whose concentra-tion is always on providing the readers the best books of interest and knowledge, through our publications.
— Publishers
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