A healthy dose of skepticism over breakfast

[sholio]

Interesting-looking link I ran across on Tumblr: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/30/10-little-known-natural-home-remedies-from-ancient-greece/

and then

2. Tomatoes For Prostate Cancer Prevention
The ancient Greeks believed that eating a tomato a day would lessen the chances of men developing prostate cancer.

Since tomatoes come from the Americas, I ... no. Unless 1700 is "ancient Greece" now. Somehow this makes me a smidge skeptical about the whole list.

Comments

[schneefink]

Pfft, you with your "facts" and "geography", boooring.

[siria]

The vast, vast majority of history-related posts/links on Tumblr (especially those which purport to be Things History Books Don't Teach You) give me a facial tic—particularly since given the nature of the platform, there's little point in even attempting a correction.

[torachan]

Also while people in ancient Greece may have developed prostate cancer, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a known disease that people were preventing against (much less with tomatoes). (Wikipedia says "Although the prostate was first described by Venetian anatomist Niccolò Massa in 1536, and illustrated by Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius in 1538, prostate cancer was not identified until 1853.")

[muccamukk]

Subtitle: Proof Odysseus Got Further Than Commonly Thought.

[alatefeline]

THANK YOU for having your brain turned on while you read this! *facepalm*