• webghost0101English
    611·
    3 months 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.

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      452·
      3 months 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

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      3 months 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.caEnglish
      8·
      3 months 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.

    • TriflingToad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      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

      • aname@lemmy.oneEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

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

        There’s plenty of studies on white males.

      • webghost0101English
        3·
        3 months ago

        What is that? Does it have a name?

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

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        3 months 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.

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months 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.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Look, we gave science a try for 10 years. It didn’t work out, so we’re just not using it anymore.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    101·
    3 months ago

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

    • stankmut@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months 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.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Meanwhile in Alabama, things are so backwards there they haven’t even figured out shoes yet! It’s not like they prefer sandals or they’re too poor to afford shoes. They all go around barefoot, because the idea of shoes just has never occured to any of them. Most buildings instead have special brush ledges so you can scrape the dirt and blood off your feet before you walk in. Again, they’re just a hopelessly backwards people. So backwards, they haven’t even figured out shoes yet. Their cousins over in Mississippi are a bit further along. MSU currently has a study going where they’re experimenting with wrapping feet in ziplock bags, secured with rubber bands.