Traditional belief

Karpenko, Vladimir. European alchemy some traditional beliefs. BullIndInst HistMed29, no. 1 (Jan 1999) 63-70. 

Some religious beliefs forbid traditional beliefs and technologies regarded as demonic or superstitious. 

According to information in the passage, fishermen s beliefs about the supernatural do not conform to the author s definition of traditional beliefs (lines 2-4) in that... 

Kalichman, S and L. Simbayi. 2004. Traditional Beliefs about the Cause of AIDS and AIDS-Related Stigma in South Africa. AIDS Care 16 572-580. 

We thus began to question the traditional belief that concerted cis elimination of R-R (simple intramolecular reductive elimination) was in fact the mechanism ... 

Boerhaave s many experimental researches described in his textbook or in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, or the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, show no discoveries that are in any sense epoch-making. By his experiments on the transmutation of metals he assisted materially in giving the death blow to the traditional belief, still more or less accepted by chemists of his time, that mercury was capable of being rendered a hard metal by long subjection to heat and that it was a constituent of other metals. He kept mercury for fifteen years at a warm temperature in an unsealed vessel, and for six months at high temperature in a sealed vessel, and distilled mercury five hundred times,... 

By contrast, in Europe we find that the symptoms of mushroom intoxication have always been compared to symptoms of mental illness. Such cross-cultural differences in value judgments can be explained in terms of two concepts introduced by R.G. Wasson and his wife mycophilia and mycophobia. This distinction subdivides cultures with different traditional attitudes towards mushrooms into two groups. For instance, an entrenched dislike for mushrooms (mycophobia) in Britain indicates traditional beliefs vastly different from those found in Slavic countries, where mushrooms are generally cherished (mycophilia). The origins and evolution of such diverging attitudes remain lost in the shadows of history. 

Until recently it has been assumed that sulfate-reducing bacteria always required a strictly anaerobic environment. These environments are found in deep coastal-plain areas, oil-field brines, and in black (organic-rich), waterlogged soils and muds associated with rivers, lakes, and swamps. Sulfate reduction has also been observed in local microenvironments such as those created by the decay of a fish buried in otherwise oxidizing sediments (Berner 1971). Contrary to traditional belief, active sulfate reduction has also been observed in the presence of dissolved oxygen in the photosynthetic zone of microbial mats (Canfield and Des Marais 1991). 

At first, the idea of performing organometallic reactions in water might seem ridiculous, since it goes against the traditional belief that most organometallics are extremely sensitive to traces of air and moisture and rapidly decompose in water. ... 

For many, the impact of scientific evidence, after invention of the telescope, was too sudden to shake their traditional beliefs, established over millenia. Even today there are those in the western world who feel more comfortable with fiat-earth cosmology and who regulate their fives arormd magical practices. There is a psychological reluctance to give up private beliefs, based on personal observation of the world, in favour of unfamiliar ideas, derived from poorly understood experiments, performed by strangers. 

The direct observation of the onset molecular weight of entanglement at Me (M ) breaks the traditional belief that chain entanglements start to occur at The traditional idea was based on the observation... 

Culture Involves the things people do and say in an organization, and why they say or do those things. Organizational cultures develop over time and consist of traditions, beliefs, values, and the way things are done in the organization. The culture consists of the internal atmosphere or climate and commonly includes subcultures and countercultures. 

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