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

An episode of [Stuff You Should Know](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/278981407), 19 Jun 2026, 1 h 00 min.

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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.

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