8 years ago
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That neat and tidy map of tastes on the tongue you learned in school is all wrong
We can thank scholarly misinterpretation for the well-known but inaccurate map of the tongue. Despite the scientific evidence, the tongue map has burrowed its way into common knowledge and is still taught in many classrooms and textbooks today.
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I'm not sure what it is that makes schools a hotbed of such faslehoods. I found my history courses were particularly bad for it. Maybe it's a combination of an unquestioning environment and a desire to keep the subject matter simplified for students.