5 Failed Science Experiments That Made Headlines

Passionate scientists constantly have revolutionary ideas, but sometimes they're too good to be true. Join Hank Green for a look into five times when scientists didn't exactly get it right, but it still made an impact on modern science! Let's go! Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Jerry Perez, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali. Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/course/280/... https://www.space.com/13197-mars-cana... https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstud... https://www.popularmechanics.com/spac... https://www.wired.com/2014/05/fantast... https://www.britannica.com/place/cana... https://faculty.humanities.uci.edu/bj... https://www.nature.com/articles/082069d0 https://www.nature.com/articles/07458... https://www.nature.com/scientificamer... https://www.nature.com/scientificamer... https://www.nature.com/scientificamer... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/... http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/1903M... https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10... https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantast... https://www.aps.org/publications/apsn... https://books.google.com/books?id=sIG... http://boole.stanford.edu/Wood/ http://www.slate.com/articles/health_... http://www.jstor.org/stable/29774558 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsY... https://www.nature.com/news/2007/0708... https://www.nature.com/articles/33428... http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/... https://www.nature.com/articles/334372a0 https://www.nature.com/articles/333816a0 http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/fusion... https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/25/us... http://files.ncas.org/erab/sec5.htm http://newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/... Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovann... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perciva... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perciva...