Yea a cool example, and sure there are others around this time where "we" figured out previous thinking was just fully wrong. But the author then also says:

> There are thousands of other examples.

Really? Thousands? Are they all similarly examples of pre-scientific method/ pre-industrial revolution knowledge? How many of these "thousand" examples have happened since 1850? Why didn't he list any that have happened in the last 50 years?