There is so much BS science taught out there. Plenty of theories in school books have been completely proven wrong and yet are still being taught, to the great frustration of scientists even.
I already exposed here the Heisenberg idea that reading position affects reading velocity accurately, which is a wrong reinterpretation in many college books.
There also is the experiment of Rutherford of alpha particles flung on gold foil. Some texts explain that most of the alphas bounce off, when it is the contrary, most go through, except a few bounce, indicating that matter is mostly made of void.
And today there are hundreds of pyshics theories and ideas proliferating like crazy getting research moneys that are completely false and do not corelate with experiments at all.
Politicians always think they are going to get something they can tax, something for free, so they make these crazy investments in every directions.