• @[email protected]
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    4111 hours ago

    It took till this year for scientists to have the idea to use mri to track brainchanges in pregnancy.

    Just imagine how many super basic observations we must be lacking.

    Scientific thought is ancient but we barely scratched the surface in pretty much every field.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 hours ago

      Here’s an idea science has yet to explore:

      Bring in a bunch of atheists and give them a placebo painkiller that they know is a placebo. Then put their hands in ice water and record the pain response. Send the control group home, but ask the experimental group to believe as hard as they can in the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the next week. A week later, give everyone another placebo painkiller and another pain test. Hypothesis: intentional religiosity increases the strength of the placebo effect.

      Faith might be like a muscle. And it might be possible to deliberately cultivate faith for beneficial purposes.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 hour ago

        As an agnostic spiritual (non religious/non atheist) this would highly peak my interest.

        Seem like it wouldn’t even be all that expensive.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 hour ago

          The only hard part is getting the atheists to actually believe in the FSM. You might have to ask them to keep a prayer journal.

    • @[email protected]
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      2810 hours ago

      Ah see you said “pregnancy” which one o’ them woman things and see we just don’t got the time and energy to be spending on that stuff. /s

      • @Worx
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        89 hours ago

        I heard that some men used to be babies that came from a woman. Ugh. Disgusting

    • @[email protected]
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      1010 hours ago

      Took til past couple years to get funding for it. About 75-90% of scientific proposals to the NIH are not funded.

    • @[email protected]
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      48 hours ago

      ignoring the elephant in the room that the study of anyone other than non white males is rare, people don’t talk about the obvious. We don’t write it down.

      Gravity took FOREVER before someone went “wait why?” and there’s tons of stuff we don’t even think about, like the ‘new shape’ that people just didn’t think to talk about because it’s just so simple

      • @[email protected]
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        159 minutes ago

        To be fair Plato said that earth and water elements want to go down in order to be near the other earth and water. That’s his explanation for the phenomena of gravity. Newton’s explanation is rather less intuitive and requires an understanding of orbital mechanics.

  • @[email protected]
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    1410 hours ago

    I was born in the dark ages. Before 2014, we used to think the world was flat and didn’t think about climate change.

  • kbal
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    610 hours ago

    It’s stairs we didn’t have before 2014. Everyone just used ladders.

    • Silverchase
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      13 hours ago

      In Abraham Lincoln’s day, everyone just rocket jumped to get to the second floor!

    • stankmut
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      16 hours ago

      Luckily builders would set aside space in buildings just in case someone had an idea for how to move between floors without a ladder. Made retrofitting stairs a breeze. You can’t even tell that they were added later most of the time.