We laugh at the old fashions. We deride them as “dated.” It’s hard to believe we ever paid money for that dress, bow tie, or that hairstyle. We’re positively baffled by those decisions.
We laugh at the science and medicine of old. The earth’s edges that ships could fall off, the heart being the source of heat for the human body, the blood-letting procedures of earlier times, and the earth sciences were intriguing, to say the least.
Yet while we scoff this who have gone before, we enshrine those who are present now.
Humans haven’t changed all that much. Future generations will look back with more than a curious smirk (they will laugh) at the things we believe in now and some (or maybe “much”) of what we hold dear in the field of science.
Science and fashion; celebrated at the moment and ridiculed at the next.