Absolutely; common knowledge becomes scientific knowledge (or is refuted) by experiment and reproducibility. You can go too far in rejecting old wives' tales (l

Absolutely; common knowledge becomes scientific knowledge (or is refuted) by experiment and reproducibility. You can go too far in rejecting old wives' tales (like how, in their discovery of vitamin A, the Japanese initially ignored the popular wisdom that buckwheat noodles prevent beriberi), but you can obviously go too far in accepting them as well.