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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16670924

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 59 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pff, nonsense, if that were real then we would have heard of it by now!

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

All real men spring forth, fully formed, from Zeus's brow.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

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

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

ignoring the elephant in the room that the study of anyone other than 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

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the study of anyone other than non white males is rare,

There's plenty of studies on white males.

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

sorry typo 🙃

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

What is that? Does it have a name?

It looks like you could stack them in a strong way.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

That's not a simple shape. Why would people want to talk about it?

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

Blessed are the toolmakers