Scientific concepts?

browngirl linked to this; 35 Scientific Concepts That Will Help You Understand The World (or Make You Smarter).

I've read them, and to be honest I don't feel that much smarter, or that I understand the world that much better...but then, if these are "scientific concepts" then science ain't what it used to be. Some of them are newly-jargonised versions of thuddingly obvious truisms, some of them are self-contradictory, some are so sloppily written as to be incomprehensible, and at least one is unsupported by any evidence (if you believe that correlation is not evidence of causation and are willing to entertain the notion that there are things we don't know yet).

About the only one of any significance that I could see was "Because so many scientific theories from bygone eras have turned out to be wrong, we must assume that most of today's theories will eventually prove incorrect as well." This I find greatly encouraging, since it fits my subjective bias towards a universe that makes some kind of sense, and doubtless I shall therefore find it easier to remember.

But I knew that before. And quite frankly, if the readers of Business Insider didn't know more than half of this stuff before they read the article, I think we should worry.