关于人体的这6个“事实”其实是伪科学_时事

关于人体的这6个“事实”其实是伪科学

一直以来，我们都认为每个人的指纹都是独一无二的，但事实果真如此吗？以下是我们都坚信的一些关于人体的“事实”，但已经被证实是伪科学。

Myth 1: Your fingerprints are completely unique

误解一：你的指纹是独一无二的

For more than a century, fingerprints have played a major role in forensic investigations. It all started with Scottish scientist and physician Henry Faulds who, in 1888, wrote an article asserting that each person has a wholly unique set of fingerprints.

一个多世纪以来，指纹一直在法医鉴定中发挥着巨大的作用。指纹说源起于苏格兰科学家和医生亨利•福尔兹1888年写的一篇论文，论文中声称每个人都有独一无二的指纹。

Now, a single print in the wrong place can be enough for a criminal conviction. However, we have no way to conclusively prove that each of our collections of whorls, loops, and arches is unique (short of gathering the prints of every person who ever lived and comparing them).

现在，在错误的地方留下一个指纹就足以定罪。但是，我们还无法最终证明我们所收集到的各种指纹（斗型纹、箕型纹、弓型纹）都是独一无二的，更不用说收集和比较那些已经过世的人的指纹了。

"It's impossible to prove that no two are the same," Mike Silverman, a forensic science regulator in the United Kingdom, told The Telegraph. "It's improbable, but so is winning the lottery, and people do that every week."