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Let's take a look at science in 1946 In 1946 science was advancing rapidly in the aftermath of the Second World War, but scientists still held beliefs that would later be overturned by new evidence. Some ideas were genuinely accepted as scientific facts and later disproven, while others were reasonable theories that scientists eventually refined or abandoned. Here are some particularly interesting examples, from medicine and biology to astronomy and physics. 20 things science believed in 1946 that we now know were wrong 1. Continents were essentially fixed in place The belief: The continents and ocean basins were largely permanent features of Earth's surface. German scientist Alfred Wegener had proposed continental drift decades earlier, arguing that continents had once been joined together. However, many geologists rejected his theory because he couldn't convincingly explain what force moved the continents. What changed: During the 1950s and 1960s, discoveries about the oc...