The issue isn't that we we don't know this stuff and are taught falsehoods. The issue is that we aren't curious enough to even look. More on the "mounds" of North America. (see also "Cholula" : x.com/s7ephen/status… ) epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epub… archive.org/details/bureau…

"Remember SARS? I was in Hong Kong [as a researcher] when SARS hit, so I went in, had a look and found out it didnt exist" "SARS didn't exist!?!?" "No, the whole thing was a series of unrelated respiratory infections, took me under an hour to see [it]" BBC's "Utopia" 2013

Steve Jobs literally predicted the iPhone, the Internet, AI and the next 50 years of technology in a single speech from 1983:

"aaand in the end he ended up your stereotypical hacker" ... "a dumb son-of-b*tch that bit of more than he could chew"