Most racist/homophobic/nationalistic problems have one common educational/scientific source: People don't understand statistical randomness, normal distribution and evolutionary theory.
Robert Liston was a competent surgeon who could amputate a leg in two minutes. However one day he achieved the impossible. With a single surgery he had a 300% mortality rate.How is this possible?
As the Africans migrated to northern regions, lighter skin colour evolved to optimise vitamin D production. Who could predict that a vitamin synthesis would be a reason for such a racist outbreak.
Human microbiota is the aggregate of microorganisms that resides on or within any of a number of human tissues. Certain microorganisms perform tasks that are known to be useful to the human host.
Venter’s team wrote a few coded 'watermarks' into the genome sequence, which spelled out the names of the team members, as well as several famous quotes.
In the early seventies, in Cleveland Ohio, protestors demonstrate against a new "dangerous" technology called NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance). The technology has to get renamed to get approved.