BrerChicken

In the 13th century, Frederick II was the Holy Roman Emperor. He supposedly carried out a famous language deprivation experiment where he had infants raised by foster mothers who were not allowed to talk to them–they could only feed and bathe then. This was to see if there is a natural human language, he thought Greek or Hebrew might emerge. It turns out that the children all died. In sociology this is taught as proof that humans need language and social interaction to survive. But the whole story comes from a single Franciscan monk who was apparently not a fan of the emperor, so there’s some doubt.

You’re thinking critically, which is good. But your bias is showing.

need language and social interaction to survive

Being deaf does not preclude one from gaining language or interacting socially.

Stuff doesn’t make us happy, people do. It’s always been like that. If we spend less time with people, in person, we will be less happy.

For large sums of money, it’s pretty common to use cashier’s checks, which is probably the kind of check that they’re talking about here.

This is so much more complex than the HGP

An even better idea: make your OWN list! Don’t expect someone else to tell you the truth if you’re not working to search for it yourself!

Some classics:

• lactic acid buildup makes your muscles hurt after a workout
• blood that’s returning to the heart and lungs is blue, blood that’s leaving your heart to go do it’s thing is red
• sugar makes kids hyper

All three of those things have been thoroughly debunked, and are demonstrably false, and yet we teach them all the time. Sometimes it’s even SCIENCE TEACHERS that are repeating these things, and sometimes it’s right in the textbook!

I think you’re getting confused with dark energy. There is very little debate about dark matter–it’s an observation that many many many people have made.

Dark energy is the name for whatever is causing the explanation expansion rate of the universe to increase. There’s quite a bit of debate about whether the expansion rate even IS increasing. And the amount of increase is different according to how you try to observe it. So yeah, there’s a lot of debate about whether dark energy is actually a thing, but there is very little debate on whether there’s more matter than we’re able to observe, something that we call dark matter but which we don’t really understand. Similar names, but totally different concepts!

You wouldn’t call a person a dwarf, period. So don’t do that. If you ever meet a little person, they’ll probably refer to themselves as a little person. You should just follow their lead

A dwarf planet is not a category of planets. It is a category of sub-planetary objects. This is how the term “dwarf planet” was adopted by the IAU in 2006. It did used to mean “type of planet”, but there are just too many of them, and they’re really too different from planets, so it literally does not mean that anymore. At least to astronomers.

I’m not going to argue with astronomers about how they define planets. I do my job, they do theirs!