The farther we get from a concept’s invention without any challenging refutation or alternative, the more likely it will be considered the default and then considered fact. Dinosaurs and DNA both belong in this category.

The existence of DNA, its structure and its role are taught to us as facts; recognized and approved by all scientific establishments. But what if I told you that DNA started as a concept. Not DNA itself, but scientists’ need to find the secret of life within our tissue, within the cells, and that the first DNA extraction became the perfect basis for the development of all sorts of theories, concepts, models and tools e.g. chromosomes, genes, RNA, PCR, GMO, epigenetics, CRISPR etc.

Source: DNA discovery, extraction and structure. A critical review

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