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Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Actually we DID. Tho' only for a little while. And the results were enormous. The B/Yamgata Influenza lineage appears to have gone extinct. The cool part is we weren't even trying to do anything with those specific efforts to affect influenza. All of which should encourage us to cooperate more. No less.

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Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Please give us more cool facts!

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- rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Doctor Ignaz Semmelweiss in the mid-1800s suggested that obstetricians should wash and sterilize their hands before attending their patients to reduce the chance of infection. He was rejected by the medical community, ridiculed by colleagues, and eventually locked in an asylum where he was killed.
  
  We’re sliding back in time.
  
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  - SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    People forget the most important bit. The clapback to Semmelweiss was “A doctor’s hands are always clean!”
    
    Humans are irrational fucking idiots and we prove it daily.
    
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    Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “A doctor’s hands are always clean!”
    
    That’s when Semmelweiss should have wiped dog shit on his hands and tried to rub them on these doctors’ face.
    
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  - ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That is far less cool.
    
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    Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    But it’s very interesting to think where we would be technologically and socially if humans weren’t such assholes
    
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  - e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Semmelweiss is also partially responsible for the widespread rejection of his findings. He basically called doctors who did not follow his advice murderers which naturally didn’t help his popularity. Antagonising someone who you are trying to convince usually just entrenches their opinions further.
    
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- Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  https://www.wikipedia.org/
  
  also for the strong of mind:
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
  
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pop@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why the change of heart at tha last sentence?

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- Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  LoL, not an English major. Edit...
  
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