The theory that different areas of the tongue tasted different things—the Tongue Map—has been pretty thoroughly debunked but lived for aboutt a century. This seems like something fairly easily testable.
The wikipedia article makes it look like it’s basically true and that a straw man absolute version was “debunked.”
The wikipedia article makes it look like it’s basically true and that a straw man absolute version was “debunked.”
But the strawman absolute version is what was (is?) taught.